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What is a Scarlet Woman 🤔
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What is a Scarlet Woman? Is she doing a wrongful or sinning act? Tell us what you think by writing a story about such.

She is a woman who is notorious for having many casual sexual encounters or relationships.
The colour scarlet is one of bright red, tinted with hints of orange. It has religious connotations as its name represents the blood of Christ and Christian martyrs.
And so the definition of scarlet is something that is a vibrant red color, and is also linked to being immoral or sinful.
A vibrant red rose is an example of something that would be described as scarlet red. The sin of adultery is an example of something that would be considered scarlet behavior.
And so a Scarlet woman in simple terms is a product and a symbol of the act of adultery, an act of love, an act of passion, a sin, and a crime.
Punishable by death
Arabic laws still calls for the stoning of a so called scarlet woman, but in the western world, the death penalty for adultery sounds a bit harsh.
But if we should take a look back in the early 19th century where the term was used mainly as a derogatory reference to the Roman Catholic Church. With the symbolic biblical figure of 'the great whore', described as a woman in scarlet and purple robes. It is evident that adultery was highly frown upon back then.

Once upon a time there was a young woman named Clair, she was happily married......or so she thought.
One evening she received a call from a friend who informed her that she came across her husband Karl, locked in close embrace outside of a restaurant with another woman, Claire stood still in that moment.
She felt like her heart had been ripped out, it was gut wrenching. Like a nasty slap in the face and in the weeks that followed, she tried to aviod anything to do with her husband. She was too afraid and ashamed to broach the subju t with him. She thought that if she ignored it the it wasn't happening, although now all the tell tale signs were there. She carried on down a path of emotional suffering.
And as she carried on...they started to slowly grow apart.
One afternoon whist at work, Clair was standing by the drink machine when Jon, one of her work colleague started a conversation with her about the scent of her perfume.
They chatted for a bit, then he asked her to join him in the canteen for a drink.
This became a daily ritual and in the days which followed, Clair found herself in bed with Jon.
She was never really sexually satisfied with he4 husband, but she had always been too embarrassed to ask for something anything different.
But her moments with Jon, made her realised how much she was missing sexually. Clair loved the taste of this bew drug and decided she wanted more. And so it began, it wasn’t planned. She felt aome guilt, but she didn't feel as though she was doing anything wrong, after all Karl was getting on with his life behind her back.
And so she felt it was only fair that she got on with hers. besides she also loved the excitement of the taboo.
But it was Clairs affairs which gave her the confidence and convinced her to face the issues in her marriage and eventually called it quits.
Was Clair a Scarlet woman, did she do anytijng wrong?
In my opinion, yes she did....because two wrongs can never make a wrong. But at the same time, I won't judge her on her decisions. Clair did what she felt was providing the help and support to cope with her maritial problems. And for her, infidelity was her theraphy.
But having said that, please remember that there's never ever a good reason for adultery.
Committing adultery is a choice, so think wisely before you make a stupid mistake and ruin someone life.


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