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a man whose wife committed adultery
cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander verb
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
"She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is the latest accepted revision , reviewed on 8 July 2022 .
This article is about the term. For the 1997 novel by Kiran Nagarkar, see Cuckold (novel) . For the 2015 South African film, see Cuckold (film) .

^ Steven M. Platek; Todd K. Shackelford, eds. (2006). Female Infidelity and Paternal Uncertainty: Evolutionary Perspectives on Male Anti-Cuckoldry Tactics . New York: Cambridge University Press . ISBN 9781139458047 .

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^ Elizabeth Weiss (2017-08-09). "The Cuckolding Fetish Explained: Why Some Men Actually *Want* to Be Cheated On" . Marie Claire Magazine . Retrieved 2022-06-27 .

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^ Baumeister, Roy (2014). Masochism and the Self . New York: Psychology Press. ISBN 978-1138876064 .

A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife; the wife of an adulterous husband is a cuckquean . In biology , a cuckold is a male who unwittingly invests parental effort in juveniles who are not genetically his offspring. [1] A husband who is aware of and tolerates his wife's infidelity is sometimes called a wittol or wittold . [2]

The word cuckold derives from the cuckoo bird, alluding to its habit of laying its eggs in other birds' nests. [3] [4] The association is common in medieval folklore , literature, and iconography .

English usage first appears about 1250 in the medieval debate poem The Owl and the Nightingale . It was characterized as an overtly blunt term in John Lydgate 's "Fall of Princes", c. 1440 . [5] Shakespeare's writing often referred to cuckolds, with several of his characters suspecting they had become one. [4]

The word often implies that the husband is deceived; that he is unaware of his wife's unfaithfulness and may not know until the arrival or growth of a child plainly not his (as with cuckoo birds). [4]

The female equivalent cuckquean first appears in English literature in 1562, [6] [7] adding a female suffix to the cuck .

A related word, first appearing in 1520, is wittol , which substitutes wit (in the sense of knowing) for the first part of the word, referring to a man aware of and reconciled to his wife's infidelity . [8]

An abbreviation of cuckold , the term cuck has been used by the alt-right to attack the masculinity of an opponent. It was originally aimed at other conservatives , whom the alt-right saw as "insufficiently committed to racism and anti-Semitism", according to The New York Times . [9]

In Western traditions, cuckolds have sometimes been described as "wearing the horns of a cuckold" or just "wearing the horns". This is an allusion to the mating habits of stags , who forfeit their mates when they are defeated by another male. [10]

In Italy (especially in Southern Italy , where it is a major personal offence), the insult is often accompanied by the sign of the horns . In French , the term is " porter des cornes ". In German, the term is " jemandem Hörner aufsetzen ", or " Hörner tragen ", the husband is " der gehörnte Ehemann ".

In Brazil and Portugal, the term used is " corno ", meaning exactly "horned". The term is quite offensive, especially for men, and cornos are a common subject of jokes and anecdotes.

Rabelais 's Tiers Livers of Gargantua and Pantagruel (1546) portrays a horned fool as a cuckold. [11] In Molière 's L'École des femmes (1662), a man named Arnolphe (see below) who mocks cuckolds with the image of the horned buck ( becque cornu ) becomes one at the end.

In Chinese usage, the cuckold (or wittol) is said to be " 戴綠帽子 " dài lǜmàozi , translated into English as 'wearing the green hat'. The term is an allusion to the sumptuary laws used from the 13th to the 18th centuries that required males in households with prostitutes to wrap their heads in a green scarf (or later a hat). [12]

A saint Arnoul(t), Arnolphe, or Ernoul, possibly Arnold of Soissons , is often cited as the patron saint of cuckolded husbands, hence the name of Molière's character Arnolphe. [13] [14]

The Greek hero Actaeon is often associated with cuckoldry, as when he is turned into a stag, he becomes "horned". [15] This is alluded to in Shakespeare's Merry Wives , Robert Burton 's Anatomy of Melancholy , and others. [16]

In Islamic cultures, the related term dayouth ( Arabic : دَيُّوث ) can be used to describe person who is viewed as apathetic or permissive with regards to unchaste behaviour by female relatives or a spouse, or who lacks the demeanor ( ghayrah ) of paternalistic protectiveness. [17] [18] Variations on the spelling, including dayyuth , dayuuth , or dayoos. [19] The term has been criticised for its use as a pejorative while also suggestive of acceptance of vain paternalistic gender roles, stigmatization of sexuality or overprotective intrusive sexual gatekeeping. [20]

Unlike the traditional definition of the term, in fetish usage a cuckold (also known as "cuckolding fetish") [21] [22] is complicit in their partner's sexual "infidelity"; the wife who enjoys "cuckolding" her husband is called a "cuckoldress" if the man is more submissive. [23] [ page needed ] [24] [25] The dominant man engaging with the cuckold's partner is called a "bull". [24]

If a couple can keep the fantasy in the bedroom, or come to an agreement where being cuckolded in reality does not damage the relationship, they may try it out in reality. However, the primary proponent of the fantasy is almost always the one being humiliated, or the "cuckold": the cuckold convinces his lover to participate in the fantasy for them, though other "cuckolds" may prefer their lover to initiate the situation instead. The fetish fantasy does not work at all if the cuckold is being humiliated against their will. [26]

Psychology regards cuckold fetishism as a variant of masochism , the cuckold deriving pleasure from being humiliated. [27] [28] In his book Masochism and the Self, psychologist Roy Baumeister advanced a Self Theory analysis that cuckolding (or specifically, all masochism) was a form of escaping from self-awareness, at times when self-awareness becomes burdensome, such as with perceived inadequacy. According to this theory, the physical or mental pain from masochism brings attention away from the self, which would be desirable in times of "guilt, anxiety, or insecurity", or at other times when self-awareness is unpleasant. [29]

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Published September 5, 2007 4:52PM (EDT)

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With every breaking political sex scandal -- and the ensuing awkward press conference/photo opp -- it becomes more and more tempting to imagine little thought balloons over the heads of the stoic, forbearing wives. ("Well, this explains a lot." "Game face game face game face." "Dude. Diapers?" )
In her blog yesterday, Susie Bright went farther, offering a thoughtful, if partly speculative, psychosexual profile of the cuckolded [political] wife, and dropping in along the way the unsurprisingly underused Canterbury Tales-tastic term cuckquean. "The spectacle of a prominent woman standing by her man, now revealed to be an adulterer -- and of a bent that she could never satisfy -- is one of the bewildering aspects of the recent Prig-Freak scandals," Bright writes. "Some say there's one explanation for the wifely stoicism: 'She's protecting her investment.'"
Sure, sure. But what interests Bright more is what's behind that game face -- that is, how these wives feel about the (ostensible) sexual vacuum in their bedrooms -- and why we don't talk about that. "There's a part to the cuckquean's inevitable reaction that is completely denied, because of our cultural inability to imagine a woman's sexual outrage ... For all the spicy details we've learned recently about tearoom cruising or diaper fetishes -- the man's sex life -- when does the subject turn to the sexual lives of the cuckolded women?" she says. "It terrifies us that sex might actually matter to women as much as it does to men."
I'd argue that we are actually plenty able to imagine a woman's sexual outrage -- pruriently so, in fact. To me, that's why female sexual desire, at any rate, is so often portrayed as a "mania" ("nympho-," to be precise). And that seems to be where the "terror" comes in. The cuckquean may look cucumber cool at the press conference, live from Stepford -- but, Bright says, be afraid, very afraid. "The only thing that ever really belonged to her -- to her alone --was her sexual identity and self-confidence. Her STUFF. If she was deceived or deprived of those big eggs, or if she never knew what to do with them in the first place, she's been damaged, and it's no careless stripping," Bright writes. "There is a female hellfire, and if our myth-making of events fails to take in a cuckquean's sexual imperative, we're all in for a little taste of it."
P.S. Word nerds: It's neologism time! Anyone got anything more felicitous than cuckquean?
Award-winning journalist Lynn Harris is author of the comic novel "Death by Chick Lit" and co-creator of BreakupGirl.net. She also writes for the New York Times, Glamour, and many others.
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