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[[File:Order-cuckoldry-ca1815-French-satire.jpg|thumb|right|450px|French satirical print depicting cuckolds (bearing the customary horns) 'celebrating' the "grand family of honorable cuckolds of all nations" before a female personification of infidelity.]] | [[File:Order-cuckoldry-ca1815-French-satire.jpg|thumb|right|450px|French satirical print depicting cuckolds (bearing the customary horns) 'celebrating' the "grand family of honorable cuckolds of all nations" before a female personification of infidelity.]] | ||
'''Cuckoldry''' is when a man's wife/partner is unfaithful to him. | '''Cuckoldry''' is when a man's wife/partner is unfaithful to him. Usually, due to sympathy, unwitting cucks are not shamed, though it was a common sport the English literary tradition (see Shakespeare) to mock such men. Witting cucks are seen as particularly worthy of contempt.<ref>https://www.publicmedievalist.com/cuck/</ref> In Islam, apathy with regards to having promiscuous family members is called [[wittoldry]] or being a [[dayuuth]].<ref>https://www.rafeeqee.com/general-islamic-principle-who-is-a-dayooth/</ref> | ||
A ''cuck fetishist'' is a man who approves of his wife having sex with other men, someone who engages in polygamy, or someone who is not able to sexually satisfy their partner (leading to cheating by the female). In other words, any man who is, "guilty", of participating, however abstractly, in a subversion of monogamous practices. They are pseudo-cucks, since actual cucks (in the traditional sense of the term) are unaware of it, and thus can't approve it. | A ''cuck fetishist'' is a man who approves of his wife having sex with other men, someone who engages in polygamy, or someone who is not able to sexually satisfy their partner (leading to cheating by the female). In other words, any man who is, "guilty", of participating, however abstractly, in a subversion of monogamous practices. They are pseudo-cucks, since actual cucks (in the traditional sense of the term) are unaware of it, and thus can't approve it. | ||