Reply #143: You are touching on something that really bugs me about the defenses of Edwards.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

In 1994, a Maryland judge was lenient on a man who caught his wife in an act of infidelity. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE4D9163FF931A15753C1A962958260

"I seriously wonder how many men married five, four years would have the strength to walk away without inflicting some corporal punishment," the judge, Robert E. Cahill, said sympathetically.

The key word there is "men". Somehow, I think Judge Cahill would not be as understanding toward a betrayed wife. I suspect he'd think she ought to be more forgiving. After all, men have these irrepresible "urges" and all. :eyes: