The Unmarried Cuckold

Back after holidays, house renovations and 101 other things of a busy summer!

Now “unmarried cuckold” – that’s a contradiction in terms isn’t it? After all the basic definition of a cuckold is a man with an ‘unfaithful wife’. Despte this, I know both from personal experience and talking with like minded friends that ladies who express on-line any interest at all in cuckoldry or related areas, like compulsory chastity, will receive requests* from men asking you to “be your cuckold” or some similarly expressed wish?

Are they a bit dim? Are their requests to be read as some sort of bizzare marriage proposal?

Well… perhaps no on both counts, I think. (Wildly over-optimistic, definitely though!)

What we are seeing here is an evolution of meaning to suit new circumstances. As new types of relationships evolve in a changing society (open non-religious polygamy, in Western society for example) language must change to accommodate them. The hopeful correspondents are, in my experience, saying they wish to enter into a relationship where she will indulge her sexual needs as she pleases but he will remain either monogomous to her or, more commonly, in a state of enforced chastity.

I did once read, or was told that there is a more apt word for this sort of thing, which is ‘geldault’ rather than ‘cuckold’ (I may not have the spelling correct though!) derived out of the the same Middle English word root as geld/gelding in the same way as ‘cuckold’ is derived out of the Middle English for ‘cuckoo’.

I now feel too overwhelmed by that attack of erudition to pick up my intended thread for this blog entry, so perhaps I’ll come back to that, my holidays and all else shortly.

Good to be back

LL

* ..though one does get the feeling that if these requests were coming in by snail mail rather than email, most of them would be written in big letters with a purple crayon ;-)

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