Talking with people who find themselves in “love triangles”, learning the opinions of both those who were deceived and those who deceived about betrayal, you understand that the social phenomenon of betrayal is much deeper than “affair” and “going to the left.” In the history of human civilization, treason (adultery) is both strictly taboo and attractive to people. What do we mean by the word “treason”? Until the 21st century, adultery was defined as voluntary sexual contact between a person who is married and a person who is not his or her marital partner; in the age of information technology, the boundaries of adultery have become vague. Is the exchange of erotic photographs and correspondence with frank erotic fantasies with a stranger considered cheating? Meeting a beauty on the Internet and passionate letters from a “macho man” whom you have no desire to meet in real life? After all, one of the spouses considers this an “innocent prank,” since there is no sexual contact with the “object of desire,” and for the other, the discovery of these facts is a gross violation of the trust and integrity of the family. Therefore, together with your spouse, it is advisable to determine “on the shore” what exactly for a given family will constitute betrayal. And what to do if it is discovered. How was/is treason punished from the point of view of the law? For centuries, marriage was a transaction, a strategic partnership between two families that could ensure survival and promote community cohesion. Consequently, while marriage was an economic transaction, only adultery could give a chance for love. In the 20th century, the requirements for marriage changed, and love was the basis of family relationships. (Or addiction, which is more accurate). There has been a mitigation of punishment from the point of view of the law in many countries. Adultery is prohibited in Muslim states: in Surah An-Nur it is said: “Beat the adulteress and the adulterer 100 times with whips and there should be no mercy for you in Allah’s command for them if you believe in Allah and on the Day of Judgment." It should be noted that this applies to people who are not married, but those who are married are stoned to death; This sura also condemns an informer who falsely accused a married woman of adultery: this man is whipped 80 times and publicly condemned. In Afghanistan, unfaithful spouses face public flogging. And if the betrayal has been going on for a long time or is repeated several times, then prison cannot be avoided, and the term can be up to 10 years. In some provinces, women are still stoned to death. And what did you want - Sharia, gentlemen. In Indonesia and Taiwan, treason is punishable by imprisonment for a period of one year. In South Korea, previously, perpetrators of adultery could be imprisoned for two years. This law was repealed in 2015. For more than 200 years in New Hampshire, the punishment for an adulterer was hanging on a gallows with a noose around his neck for an hour, lashings, and a fine. Currently, the punishment has been softened and only a fine of $1,200 thousand has been left. In South Carolina, adultery is punishable by a fine of $500,000 and imprisonment for a year. In the states of Idaho, Oklahoma, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Massachusetts, adultery is a criminal offense that can lead to jail time, and all attempts to abolish it have been met with fierce public resistance. In Europe, adultery is not criminally prosecuted: in France since 1975, in Spain since 1978, in Belgium since 1987, in Switzerland since 1989. In Turkey, adultery has not been prosecuted since 1998, but in 2004 it was An attempt has been made to restore criminal penalties for adultery. Considering that Turkey at that time was seeking to join the EU, and the law did not comply with the European Union Charter of Human Rights, it was not adopted. In Iran, an attempt was made to introduce an article on the death penalty for adultery into the Criminal Code. In India, only in 2017 did it become possible to change the punishment for adultery. The legislation of the Russian Federation does not provide for any punishment for adultery,.