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cuckoldry

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cuck·old·ry  (kkl-dr, kk-)
n.
1. The state of being a cuckold.
2. The act of making someone a cuckold.
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Noun1.cuckoldry - the practice of making cuckolds; sexual conquests of married women
sexual conquest, score - a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse; "calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of male slang"


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Collington explores the theme of cuckoldry among the unmarried adolescent characters of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, and John Leland studies the reverse migration of teen domestic workers from city to country in fourteenth-century England.
The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society 1150-1650 by King, Margaret L. / Renaissance Quarterly
Extra-pair copulations (EPC) and cuckoldry of the social partner (the male providing parental care to the offspring of another male) is in fact much more common than once believed.
Evolution of human mate choice by Byrd-Craven, Jennifer / The Journal of Sex Research
When researchers presented male bluegills with phony evidence of cuckoldry, the dads slacked off on nest defense, says Bryan Neff of the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.
Bluegill dads: not mine? Why bother? (Fishy Paternity Defense) by Milius, S. / Science News
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