By John Portmann, associate professor of religious studies, in response to New York Times' Room for Debate opinion page query: "What's Wrong With Adult Sexting?"
... Freud thought that word play could, if imaginative enough, qualify as sex. I disagree.
I find it useful to think of adultery in old-fashioned terms. I am also old-fashioned enough to consider adultery a sin, something really, really bad. I do not think Anthony Weiner has committed adultery, unless there’s more going on than he has confessed to. ...
Given all the harm one spouse can to do one another, is his Inter...