I'm serious. I can't wrap my mind around how it's legal when it's one of the most traumatic things to go through.
How is it not considered some combination of sexual assault and theft? People tend to use "consenting adults" as an excuse for all kinds of degeneracy these days, but even then adultery has a lack of consent from the person being cheated on. I remember India decriminalized adultery a few years ago and everyone on Reddit and the media was acting like it was some awesome, progressive thing. It's not. I'm not even remotely religious other than some shaman woo shit, so don't bring Christianity or some other Abrahamic religion into this.
How should adultery be legally dealt with? I think it's honestly sex offender registry material.
Abrahamic religions do not differ in the approach to adultery from any other traditional society. Seeing adultery as a crime is based in natural law not in any revelation.
In fact if you read the Bible you might notice that there is a strict anti-adultery sentiment way before Moses is being given the Law from God. There are multiple cases of kings being afraid of accidentally fucking someone's wive, because they think it will bring misfortune. When one of Jacob's daughter is fucked by some dude without marriage, her brothers do some epic trolling and trick the entire tribe of the perpetrator into circumcising their dicks, and then when they sit there with bleeding cocks in their hands the Hebrews attack them and slaughter them all
All traditional societies scorn children born out of wedlock, being a bastard used to be considered being a second-class human. Again, it has nothing to do with "Abrahamism", in the Bhagavad Gita it's stated that "unwanted population is the source of all problems" etc.
The problem is that Christendom was psyoped into forgetting the difference between adultery and fornication. Adultery = fucking someone's wife/husband. This was punishable by death. Fornication = fucking a prostitute for example. This really wasn't a big deal, Judges chosen by God fuck prostitutes in the Bible, prophets fuck their slave girls ("servants") too and it's never suggested it was considered "wrong"
Prostitute/whore is another distinction that was psyop'd out of the Christian culture. All throughout the middle ages prostitution was perfectly legal, and cities and towns had legally operating brothels. Women who were not prostitutes by profession fucking with anyone other than their husband were considered whores and whoring was heavily scorned, unlike prostitution.
In fact prostitution is one of the last bastions of Tradition. With prostitution, a man can actually OWN a woman, at least for an agreed-on time, just as God intended. That's why marxists and other satanists always wanted to abolish prostitution, and replace both prostitution and marriage with turning all women into whores (which is already like 95% done in the west, and with shit like onlyfans etc. it will be achieved 100%)