Adultery a Crime in Wisconsin

You heard me, it carries a fine of up to $10,000 and a potential sentence of 3 and 1/2 years in prison.

Am I surprised that the government has now decided to poke it's long nose not only into my private life, but directly into what my genitalia are up to?  Not really.  I think it's wrong to legislate a person's sexual habits, but I'm not surprised.

Why, just think, coming soon will be the official government virginity test for females desiring to marry!  And who knows but what even men will have to find some way to prove they, too, are virginal.

Perhaps we can implant a computer chip in the genitalia to sound an alarm in case any child discovers the fun of masturbation.  It will certainly be more effective than that "you'll go blind" thing we had going on a long time ago.

What kind of person wants their spouse to be faithful by main force?  Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of love and faithfulness as a direct result of love?  And if one were to make a mistake while young, commit adultery in the heat of the moment or under great duress or anguish of mind, and sincerely regret it later, is there no hope of forgiveness after that?  Are we to assume that love itself can be eradicated by the making of one, small physical error that has no more emotional significance than say, moving one's bowels?

Is making my spouse pay a fine or serve time in any way likely to improve my marriage?  What exact purpose does it serve?  What is it's expected benefit?

It's not a deterrent, because we all know from experience that people break rules all the time, you're either a person who "won't do it because it's wrong"  or you're a person who "probably won't get caught and is therefore willing to take the risk."

In other words, we are all human and fallible and subject to making poor decisions depending on the circumstances in which we find ourselves.

So what good do we expect to be accomplished by the moral police?

This country is going plumb to hell and one of us should really say something.  We live in a country where our mouth has freedom of speech but our genitalia are regulated by law.

Strippers can legally take it all off and give any enterprising old man a lap dance, but the man's body better not respond or it will find itself in a prison cell with Bubba, for whom it is not a crime to commit adultery with the man's orifice's, and even if it were adultery, what's three and a half more years to a man already serving 25?

And I doubt the fine is going to be a lot of comfort to the old fellow, either, after all, they're not paying it to him.  And if he should be so bold as to suggest they should, that would be soliciting prostitution and we all know where that leads.  Right back to Bubba.

And I should like very much to know how one proves the crime of adultery has been committed.  Is the appearance of guilt enough to secure a conviction?  And if it is, don't you think you ought to start worrying about what other things you may find yourself in prison for based on a mere likelihood or appearance of guilt?

Did we not once have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights that both guaranteed us certain freedoms and protected us from certain oppressions?  Where the hell have they gone?  Shouldn't we try to find out?   Do you want to wake up next to Bubba thinking, "I should have gone looking to see what happened to my freedom and protection..."  Well, it's a little too late to do the right thing then, Buddy!

So, back to adultery and how to prove it, is photographic evidence required?  Do we care at all how it is obtained or by whom or under what circumstance? 

Battered Women unite!  Big brother has just given the abusive SOB the perfect weapon.  No one will dare to help you now, not even the shelters.  Every wife beating bastard out there has accused the staff of being lesbians who exist for the sole purpose of ruining the marriages of good old red blooded American husbands who only want to own their wives and occasionally break their bones.

So how big a step is it for the rat bastard to claim you committed adultery with the intake volunteer?  Then it's a big fine and off to prison, so how many women are going to be willing to leave the abusive bastard with her children while SHE trots off to prison for three years for committing adultery?

I suppose murders may increase.  Dead rat bastards tell no tales and at least you'll know the kids are safe while you're rotting in prison.

This whole thing is an outrage.  I am disgusted, disappointed and I disapprove.  Heartily.