Adultery

While reading through Adultery on page 241, in The Scarlet Letter I was fairly shocked on how serious they had once taken this crime. When thinking of adultery I automatically think of infidelity and how it ruins couples relationships a lot in this day and age. In the 1600s Adultery to me was like murder. Now a days someone can kill another human being and be sent to jail, but committing the simple act of adultery could have you killed back then was crazy to hear. The punishment being any where from beatings to being killed for it. They make it well known to everyone that you have went behind your partners back and done mischievous acts, by sewing A D on the arm and back of your clothing. They put your crime out there for everyone to see.
In this piece they mentioned some information from William Corbett's Advice yo Young Men. What caught me off guard is when he talked about men looking for Chastity in his wife and that in the end adultery was greater a crime for the woman than the men. Why was it looked down upon more for woman than men? It was still the same crime and I find it very unfair and stereotypical for this to occur.
Even though i was not very familiar with this subject and to why it was so important for them to give them the types of punishment they did, why are people so worried about what other people did. Now a days there would be mass amounts of people missing in this world if we spent all of our time focusing on people who commit the crime of adultery. You see it mischievous acts being played upon partners all the time in this day and age.