| He thus has the knowledge that he should avoid fornication, but he fornicates nonetheless because he actually sees the fornication as an act of pleasure to be pursued. |
| Thus, laws criminalizing acts like adultery, spousal or parental abandonment, bastardy, prostitution, and fornication appeared. |
| Their talk is adultery and fornication, dishonesty, greed and deceit, and easy money. |
| So widespread is the understanding that, when a priest or bishop's adultery or fornication comes to light, clergy and laity are equally scandalized. |
| A heterosexually oriented celibate will sin adulterously with a married woman or be guilty of fornication with an unmarried one. |
| And the consequences of fornication or adultery are not only restricted to the parties involved in these immoral acts. |
