{"id":573,"date":"2015-02-28T21:23:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T21:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discreetaffairfinder.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2015-02-20T00:42:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T00:42:15","slug":"media-has-made-affairs-socially-accepted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discreetaffairfinder.com\/index.php\/media-has-made-affairs-socially-accepted\/","title":{"rendered":"Has The Media Made Affairs More Socially Accepted?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HasAdultery has always been looked upon as an evil deed, but has media and the internet changed the way we think about adultery? Since as far back as the 1800\u2019s, when Nathanial Hawthorn wrote The Scarlet Letter<\/a>, people have turned their nose up and scorned those who break the holy vows of matrimony. In Hawthorne\u2019s work, poor Hester Prynne has a child from an affair with the minister of her church. She spends the rest of her life keeping her child\u2019s father a secret and trying to live a life of dignity despite being labeled as an adulterer with a giant scarlet letter A on her person at all times. Early newspapers report adulterers as criminals and indeed, it was an offense punishable by jail time in years gone by. Even in those days, the perceptions given to the public by the media tend to stick around.<\/p>\n

Has the media made affairs less of a human offense? It is certainly possible. As humanity progresses many things take on different importance as society and its goals and needs change<\/a>. In European countries, sex and relationships have been less than stringent than the United States. Americans have always put a huge emphasis on sex being private only and strictly between a man and his wife. Before women\u2019s rights were established and women\u2019s lib started to take hold, an affair was a bad thing, but worse for a woman than a man. Men could have an affair and be looked down upon, but as long as he came to his senses and went back to the wife and kids, it was all good. All\u2019s well that ends well, and all that, right? Women, on the other hand, always get the fuzzy end of the popsicle when it comes to affairs. Whether they are the one getting cheated on or the one having an affair, it usually boiled down to something she\u2019d done.<\/p>\n

The Women\u2019s Movement Has Made Having An Affair More Acceptable<\/h3>\n

Women started coming into their own in the 1920\u2019s but it didn\u2019t help the double standard with affairs much or the medias take on those who have them. It wasn\u2019t until the 1960\u2019s and what\u2019s known as the sexual revolution that media venues began to loosen up on affairs and sex in general. The teens and young adults of the 1960\u2019s began to look at sex in a different way than their ancestors. Gone were the stereotypes about who couples should be and how dating should work. The media dubbed 1969 the Summer of Love<\/a> and the phrase free love began to be thrown around like confetti, especially in progressive California. It wasn\u2019t long before the entire country was feeling the effects of free love.<\/p>\n

Media venues picked up on what was happening in the country and reported it to the world. While it still wasn\u2019t ok to have an affair, the idea of sex outside of marriage began to be more accepted and sex as a whole lost some of the stigma. As years have progressed and people have changed with the world around them, sex has begun to seem natural and normal and the idea of having it with only one person for the rest of your life didn\u2019t seem as appealing as it once did. It seemed more probable, in the spirit of love and brotherhood the 60\u2019s ushered in, that it was possible to love many, many people in a single lifetime.
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