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A cuckold is a married man with an adulterous wife. Due to the word's original meaning, a man who is unwittingly raising another man's child, it refers to a man who is unaware of his victimization. Because of this association, it is one of the few masculine specific words in the English language without a feminine counterpart. In current usage it sometimes refers to non-married couples in committed relationships , although this is not the traditional meaning. A man who knows and acquiesced in his wife’s taking of another lover was called a wittol , itself a derivation from the Middle English for "witting (as in knowing) cuckold."
Cuckold is derived from the Old French for the cuckoo , cocu , with the pejorative suffix - ald . The earliest written use of the Middle English derivation, cokewold , occurs in 1250. The females of certain varieties of cuckoo lay their eggs in other bird’s nests, freeing themselves from the need to nurture the eggs to hatching.
Cuckolds have sometimes been written as "wearing the horns of a cuckold" or just "wearing the horns". This refers to the fact that the man being cuckolded is the last to know of his wife's infidelity. He is wearing horns that can be seen by everybody but him. This also refers to a tradition claiming that in villages of unknown European location, the community would gather to collectively humiliate a man whose wife gives birth to a child recognizably not his own. According to this legend, a parade was held in which the hapless husband is forced to wear antlers on his head as a symbol of his wife’s infidelity. Whether this did actually happen or not is inconsequential as the phrase has survived.
In French the term is porter des cornes and is used by Molière to describe someone whose consort has been unfaithful. Molière 's L'École des femmes ( 1662 ) is the story of a man who mocks cuckolds and becomes one at the end. In Geoffrey Chaucer 's Canterbury Tales (c.1372-77), the Miller's Tale is a story that humorously examines the life of a cuckold. The genre has recently been revived by Howard Jacobson in his 2008 novel The Act of Love .
The term dates from the Roman empire [ citation needed ] , since legionaries returning from the war were given horns as a triumph or prize. So, the use of the term is a mockery of the husband, victorious in the battlefield, but defeated in his own bed.
In Brazil , Germany , Bulgaria , Greece , Italy , Poland , Portugal , Russia , Czech Republic , Croatia , Hungary , Slovenia , Turkey , Spanish speaking countries and also Arabic speaking countries, "horns" are a metaphor for suffering the infidelity of a partner, not limited to husbands in modern usage. The gesture of the horned hand can be used to insult the cuckold.
The Italian equivalent is cornuto , sharing the same double entendre with the English word cornuted , asserting both featuring horns and cuckolded. Its use is playful and lightheartedly derisive, with little or no particular efficacy in scorning someone during confrontations as it is lacking earnest damning credentials, potentially leading all parties to a chuckle and smothering the feud at its inception. A pervasive metaphor parodies the use of cornuto to great effect: il bue che dà del cornuto all'asino , meaning the ox labelling the donkey cornute , equivalent to pot calling the kettle black .
In Portuguese the terms corno ("horn"), cornudo or chifrudo ("horned") are used to spite or mock the cheated male partner. The expression corno manso ("tame horned") is used to indicate those men who, although cheated by their partners, come to accept it as a fact of their lives.
The Spanish word cornudo is used to describe a male partner whose female partner is sexually unfaithful. A consenting cuckold, cabrón , has such an offensive nuance that it is a taboo word rarely used with its original meaning, " billy goat ". However, according to the tone and the relation to the addressed, it can be even laudatory.
The Chinese term for "cuckold" is literally translated to "wearing a green hat" (戴綠帽, dài lǜ mào ). [ 1 ] It is because of this that it is extremely rare to see any Chinese man wearing a green hat. [ 2 ] Chinese Roman Catholic bishops , who in ecclesiastical heraldry would normally have a green galero above their arms, have dispensation to use some other color of galero on account of this custom. Violet is mostly used for Chinese bishops.
In Trinidad & Tobago the term "horn" is used in conjunction with cuckolds, or anyone of either sex who has a cheating spouse. Other uses include "to horn" (to sleep with someone else's spouse), "horning" (the act of cheating on your spouse), "horner-man" (a man who is sleeping with someone else's spouse) and "horner-woman" (a woman who is sleeping with someone else's spouse), "to get horn", "to take (a) horn". It is usually used in a pejorative sense. Numerous calypsoes have been written about the topic; the most famous being "Horn Me Sandra" by the calypsonian known as Lord Kitchener .
This horn analogy extends to Turkey , where the cuckolded husband is termed boynuzlu , "horned one".
Cuckoldry as a fetish has been around since at least the time of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (the writer after whom the term masochism is coined). Sacher-Masoch's wife, Aurora Rümelin, recounts in her memoirs multiple instances of Sacher-Masoch asking, begging and even threatening her to make her cuckold him so he could experience the pain and humiliation of the act. To that end, Sacher-Masoch created multiple opportunities for the adulterous act to occur, none of which were successful. While Rümelin indulged her husband in many of his masochistic requests, due in large part because of her dependence on him to financially support her and her children, she steadfastly refused to cuckold him. Rümelin's refusal to succumb to Sacher-Masoch's cuckolding fantasies was one of the causes of their separation and her subsequent descent into poverty. [ citation needed ]
The term has acquired additional meanings within certain sub-cultures, referring to couples wherein the female is dominant and she takes on additional partners, while the male takes on a submissive role where he is monogamous to her, or only becoming involved sexually when it is felt to be emotionally supportive of her and her lover, or remaining altogether celibate.
The wife who enjoys cuckoldry is sometimes referred to as a hotwife or cuckoldress. In a broader context, the contrast between a cuckold and the additional male participant is sometimes used to summarize an individual's personality or behavior and the variability commonly seen in male libidos: the cuckold or beta male suggesting a lack of masculinity or alpha male representing that missing masculinity.
Cuckolding among female-dominant couples differs from the original definition of cuckolding in that many of these men are willing to be cuckolded by their wives, sometimes as part of the their sexual fantasy and sometimes because they gain genuine sexual arousal through being humiliated by his wife being better sexually fulfilled with a potentially superior male, or by the wife's domination of her husband by forcing him to give her oral sex after she has had unprotected intercourse with her lover, a process known as 'cleaning up'.
The desire for the male to enjoy being cuckolded is more related to sexual gratification and less about interpersonal ideals (respect, commisary, between the partners).
In most modern cases of cuckolding, the husband usually finds pleasure through that of his wife and they (the wife and extramarital participant) may both enjoy attempting to actively include him in the act of cuckolding as much as possible through serving her. Some common themes include praising her appearance, attempting to stimulate her sexually at the same time as the additional participant, and generally being engrossed in her enjoyment. It is common for the male to be more absorbed with the females pleasure than his own.
While the word defines the cuckold husband as being submissive, powerless and/or in need of humiliation to receive stimulation, contemporary practice suggests that many in such a relationship are experiencing something altogether different from cuckoldry. Rather than passively acceding to the infidelity and desires of an errant wife, this cuckold is more in keeping with the male partners defined in polyamorous , open , or swinging relationships. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
The term "cuckold" is exclusively used for a male whose wife takes other partners; a woman whose husband strays in such fashion is known as a cuckquean. [ 6 ]
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cuck·old
| \ ˈkə-kəld
, -(ˌ)kōld \
cuckold
transitive verb
And also, for some reason, making his rusty BFF Mater a cuckold .
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Devon Ivie, Vulture , 4 Oct. 2021
Tom is also a cuckold : Shiv is cheating on him with her ex Nate (Ashley Zukerman), a floppy-haired political operative.
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Meredith Blake, chicagotribune.com , 12 Aug. 2019
Even Shakespeare and Chaucer cracked wise about cuckolds , who were often depicted wearing horns.
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Carl Zimmer, New York Times , 8 Apr. 2016
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One of the more glaring inequities of the English language is that it has a significantly larger number of words for “a man whose wife is unfaithful” than it does for “a woman whose man is unfaithful.” Cuckold is perhaps the best known of these words, and it has many synonyms, including (but by no means restricted to) cornute , cornuto , hoddy-doddy , hoddypoll , horn , ram , and wittol (a man who is aware of his wife’s infidelity and acquiesces to it). What of a woman whose husband is unfaithful? For that our language appears to have but a single word, and an obscure one at that: cuckquean .
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13th century, in the meaning defined above
“Cuckold.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cuckold. Accessed 27 Aug. 2022.
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ROFL, I changed this to just wife, I don't think "hot wife" is really needed and it really made it hard for me to take it seriously when I saw it. I think just wife will suffice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.220.16.130 ( talk ) 18:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC) Reply [ reply ]
The 'theory' section is in dire need of a re-write.
The first half makes no reference to research into the cause of fetishes/kinks, specifically classical conditioning, sexual imprinting, or the eroticization of deep-rooted emotional trauma.
Particularly, the section on 'evolutionary biology and psychology' is deeply flawed and although it's referenced, it's simply irrelevant, and the references contradict the statements. NONE of this is anything to do with cuckolding. In fact, it's the complete opposite, both the 'Sperm Wars' book and the Gallup study (2003) emphasise the fact that evolution makes men ADAPTED FOR BEATING COMPETITION. Cuckolding is the COMPLETE OPPOSITE. It is intentionally introducing a LOWER probability of passing on genetic material, and finding sexual pleasure in that. Furthermore, this is not backed up by ANY research on the formation of fetishes, and is not backed up by ANYTHING linking this to cuckolding! The Gallup study is about the shape of the penis and the 'sperm wars' book is about competition for mating. The sentence preceding the Gallup study is unreferenced, irrelevant, and exceedingly strange.
This entire section on evolutionary biology suggests that 100% of men are evolved to be cuckolds, with all references supporting the opposite notion (that people are built to fight off competition, not increase it) and makes no suggestion as to why most people are repulsed by the idea.
The paragraph on bringing the fantasy into reality would be better suited to the 'cuckoldry as a fetish' section.
Furthermore, the interracial element is overlooked. I know there's been some heated arguments over this but we really need to address this.
098oik ( talk ) 18:46, 12 April 2018 (UTC) Reply [ reply ]
Ok i'm cleaning this up. I'll re-write this a bit more fully when i get the time. In the mean time remember not to use wikipedia for original research; it seems people got away with this previously 098oik ( talk ) 15:10, 13 July 2018 (UTC) Reply [ reply ]
Change “his (or her)” to “their” to include non binary people and be less clunky. 2A02:C7F:1235:CC00:89D1:E462:2E80:ECE3 ( talk ) 05:02, 2 January 2019 (UTC) Reply [ reply ]
The article lacks an evolutionary biology standpoint, and in particular a sociobiological view too, as unpopular that may be, it starts off with it, but it doesn't draw parallels to the cuckoo bird, which is arguably the origin of the concept and etymology, and which was given as an example by the most prominent evolutionary scientist in the world Charles Darwin , in the On the Origin of Species yet no reference to Darwin has been made even in the history of the term, in short the article needs a more biological, sociobiological and philosophical viewpoint, at the moment it is focusing on the sociology of the terminology and even pop culture. Jamesniederle ( talk ) 11:51, 19 October 2019 (UTC) Reply [ reply ]
Did you all know there is only one known cure for cuckoldry in humans? ... It's unabashed and unapologetic support for Donald J Trump... MAGA!
New category or subcategory under "Cuckoldry as a fetish" - Reasons for voluntary cuckold
- They are excited because their partners are excited and they can watch it.
- Complicated temper of the man when he is often dominant in everyday life or sometimes even in sexual life but desires for special kind of humiliation or degradation.
- They are excited that other men are interested in their partner and that they like her or even that their wife or girlfriend is interested in another man. Where the boyfriend’s or husband’s interest or excite stems from the fact that people want something they can’t have or that is very uncertain for them.
- Due to a special type of trauma:
--divorced parents – violation in family, domestic abuse, humiliation…
--they have been deceived by their current or former partner and are coping with it in this way
However, it is important to mention that this practice is carried out in a positive sense with a love in this imagination and this behavior. Both partners therefore usually like or at least agree with this act and do like that for the pleasure of the other partner. As a result, a cuckold fantasy can be very helpful in a healthy relationship if they both know what they want, are clear about the relationship, and trust each other. This can very deepen their relationship.
The old talk entry was archived, but I am still thinking a separate article covering the contemporary fetish and the psychology related to said. As with other articles, we could have a synopsis here and a link. There is good source materials now, both in print and online, so proper cites should not be a problem. Thoughts on this and layout of such an article? Thanks. Surv1v4l1st ╠ Talk ║ Contribs ╣ 17:47, 12 August 2022 (UTC) Reply [ reply ]
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