Adultery laws may be scrapped

Laws criminalising the act of adultery in South Korea may be scrapped in reaction to a public demand for sexual freedom.

Following months of revision, the South Korean Justice Ministry have ruled in favour of removing a clause that penalises those caught having a secret affair.

It comes after local courts have shown an increasingly lenient attitude to those brought for charges of infidelity, with many being given the lesser punishment of a suspended sentence.

Campaigners have said it is a great step forward in the fight for privacy and personal freedom.

The announcement seems to confirm a growing global acceptance towards the nature of adultery.

A recent poll by YouGov Siraj showed that 14 per cent of United Arab Emirate residents who were in a relationship admitted infidelity, while in Europe the Barcelona Reporter revealed that six out of ten Spanish people over the age of 46 were not averse to adultery.

Commenting on the media backlash against John Terry in the wake of his secret affair with teammate Wayne Bridge's ex-girlfriend, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said that in any other country the former England captain would have been applauded.

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