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Really, now. "Harlot"? "Whore"? "Seminal spitoon"? Again, we're back to pillorying her because he lied and cheated. News flash: women are allowed to have sex with willing men. (I assume no-one's contesting the fact that he was willing; he went to her.)
Sleeping with a willing man does not make a woman a whore, a harlot, or anything else. A man who sleeps with someone else while he's married, however, is at fault, just like a woman who sleeps with someone else while she's married would be at fault. Convenient as it is for men who cheat to have the women they cheat with catch all the flak while they duck and run? All she did was sleep with someone willing.
If my husband cheats, you'd better believe the one I'm going to be livid at is him, not her. He is not a passive piece of property, that I should get mad at her for trespassing. He is an adult with free will and a sense of right and wrong that should have kept him faithful and didn't. That's his problem, and mine for as long as I'm married to him after I find out about it, (not bloody long, that) but not hers.
