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A husband who strangled his wife after she taunted him about her affairs yesterday had his murder conviction quashed.

Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge said “sexual infidelity” by victims must be taken into account in triggering the new “loss of control” defence.

Jon-Jaques Clinton, 45, of Bracknell, Berks, was last year found guilty at Reading crown court of murdering wife Dawn, 33.

But Clinton, who said she “evinced pure hatred for him”, remains in custody and will now face a retrial.

In a ruling that could affect future “crime of passion” cases, Lord Judge said the trial judge was wrong to discount infidelity and take away from jurors the new defence that could reduce a conviction to manslaughter.

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David Beckham’s representative has denied an allegation sweeping the internet that he cheated on wife Victoria with a $10,000 a night prostitute.

A picture of the next front cover of US magazine In Touch apparently claims that “Beckham has been caught cheating”, the image spreading across Twitter.

It goes on to allege that the magazine contains an exclusive of “David’s affair with a £10,000 a night hooker”, with details including “a threesome and unsafe sex”, “his dig at super-thin Posh” and the call girl in question apparently claiming “I could see why he’d be unhappy”.

However, a representative for David and Victoria Beckham has told Us magazine that the allegations are “are completely untrue and totally ridiculous, as the magazine was clearly told before publication.”

The representative added: “Sadly we live in a world where a magazine can print lies and believe they can get away with it.

“We are taking legal action against the magazine.”

Beckham has on previous occasions strenuously denied that he’s cheated on wife Victoria, who he married in 1999.

An article on The Huffington Post website has reported that the person making the claims is 26-year-old former prostitute Irma Nici.

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Say what you will about acclaimed philanderers’ website Ashley Madison, but the proof is in the numbers—the site boasts a more-than-impressive 7 million members. As you read this, cheating hearts are setting up booty calls in eight countries and three different languages. So does founder and CEO Noel Biderman feel ethically conflicted about creating a portal for millions of roaming hands around the globe? Nope. Not at all. We chatted with Biderman to give him a chance to make a case for Ashley Madison and how he thinks the site may actually help marriage.

YourTango: How do you feel about promoting infidelity?

Noel Biderman: I didn’t invent infidelity. Though I may be tweaking it. Infidelity is misunderstood, and we struggle with it in our society. We should stop being so judgmental about it. I know why they [cheaters] do it; they love their families, they don’t want to get divorced, especially if there are kids involved. Aren’t the kids really the victims of divorce? If we stand back and realize a person in a monogamous marriage has a 50/50 chance of making it, you may realize that cheating happens in order to preserve marriage.

Sure, marriage is difficult, but doesn’t Ashley Madison encourage infidelity by making it seem normal?

I don’t think people are so pliable that seeing a 30-second advertisement for Ashley Madison will make people want to go have an affair. We’re safe, secure and anonymous and we keep them off traditional dating sites, mixing and mingling with single folks.

But the real problem with cheating is the dishonesty.

It’s only dishonest because they don’t want to hurt their partners and are terrified of the repercussions. It’s not dishonesty because of a character flaw. I do see it as constructive. I get thank you e-mails from those who say I helped them get through the day. I’m happy to be a part of the solution.

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A veteran NYPD cop has been accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a girl from the time she was 13, The Post has learned.

Police officer Georgios Mastrokostas was stripped of his badge Aug. 27 after the girl, now 17, told authorities about the relationship, the NYPD said.

“We are investigating the allegation internally,” said Deputy Inspector Kim Royster. “He was placed on modified duty.”

Mastrokostas, who joined the force in 2004, was recently transferred from the 70th Precinct in Kensington, Brooklyn, to the 32nd Precinct in Harlem due to another unspecified allegation, the NYPD said.

It’s unclear how the girl, from Flatbush, Brooklyn, first met Mastrokostas, who was assigned to patrol her neighborhood.

Calls to Mastrokostas’ home and his union were not returned.

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ALLAHABAD: A 30-year-man succumbed to his injuries after his paramour bobbitized him at Colonelganj in Allahabad on Sunday.

Police said the paramour, Jyoti, a widow, chopped off autorickshaw driver Jai Prakash’s private parts after she suspected that he was cheating on her. Jyoti, a fruit vendor, was arrested from the crime scene and booked under IPC’s section 326 and 302.

Colonelganj circle officer Shankar Dutt Shukla told TOI that Jyoti and Prakash were having an affair and of late she was suspecting him of cheating on her. “She hatched the conspiracy to teach him a lesson.”

Police said Jyoti called Prakash for a booze session at a deserted place and when he got sozzled, she hit him with a stone and bobbitised him when he became unconscious.

She didn’t attempt to flee and started crying. The locals spotted the two and informed the police. The cops rushed Prakash to a hospital but he succumbed to his injuries.

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Music mogul SIMON COWELL was convinced CHERYL COLE would reunite with her soccer star husband despite allegations of his infidelity.

The singer split from England player Ashley Cole in February (10) after claims of his alleged affairs hit the headlines.

The pair was granted a divorce at London’s High Court on Friday (03Sep10) in a hearing which lasted just over a minute, swiftly ending their four-year marriage.

But Cole’s The X Factor boss Cowell admits he thought the singer would reconcile with the sports star.

He tells Britain’s The Sun, “I wish her all the best but honestly I never thought they would break up. I still thought she might have taken him back.

“But I’m happy for her if she’s happy and I can’t wait for the live shows to start. She always gives it 100 per cent. She’s so vibrant and I hope she’s happy, I really do.”

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“Girly jobs” won’t only get you a husband – they’ll get you a husband who’s less likely to cheat on you (maybe).

New research suggests that men who are financially dependent on their wives or live-in girlfriends are 5 times more likely to cheat on them – 5 times more likely!

On the contrary, women who are financially dependent on their male partners are more faithful.

Why the discrepancy?

Well, although it seems rather counter-intuitive for a person to cheat on the partner who supports them, it can be argued that men choose this route as a means of demonstrating their “manliness” that is called into question with their lower pay check.

Men as Breadwinners

According to the author of the study, Christin Munsch, men who earn less than their female counterparts challenge “the traditional notion of men as breadwinners.” Without ownership of this role she argues that a man’s gender identity is threatened which leads him to cheat.

Given this argument, the more economically dependent a man is, the less he is able to fulfill his role as a breadwinner, and the more likely he is to cheat.

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Abbey Clancy has reportedly decided to forgive fiancé Peter Crouch, but is not prepared to forget recent allegations of the footballer’s infidelity.

Last week, reports emerged that the Tottenham Hotspur striker had cheated on model Clancy by sleeping with a 19-year-old prostitute on a stag weekend in Madrid. Following the revelations, Clancy was reported to be moving out of the £3m Surrey mansion the couple share.

The Mirror reports that the 24-year-old has now resolved to fight for her relationship with Crouch, provided that there are no further accusations of cheating.

Clancy told a friend: “It’s not going to be easy, but, given time, I hope we can get through this. We’ve been through too much. I’m not prepared to let it go.”

“Abbey is still very hurt by the accusations,” the friend explained. “Although she is prepared to forgive, she won’t ever forget.”

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban militants stoned a young couple to death for adultery after they ran away from their families in northern Afghanistan, officials said Monday.

Amnesty International said it was the first confirming stoning in Afghanistan since the fall of Taliban rule in the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.

The Taliban-ordered killing comes at a time when international rights groups have raised worries that attempts to negotiate with the Taliban to bring peace to Afghanistan could mean a step backward for human rights in the country. When the Islamist extremists ruled Afghanistan, women were not allowed to leave their houses without a male guardian, and public killings for violations of their harsh interpretation of the Quran were common.

This weekend’s stoning appeared to arise from an affair between a married man and a single woman in Kunduz province’s Dasht-e-Archi district.

The woman, Sadiqa, was 20 years old and engaged to another man, said the Kunduz provincial police chief, Gen. Abdul Raza Yaqoubi. Her lover, 28-year-old Qayum, left his wife to run away with her, and the two had holed up in a friend’s house five days ago, said district government head, Mohammad Ayub Aqyar.

They were discovered by Taliban operatives on Sunday and stoned to death in front a crowd of about 150 men, Aqyar said.

First the woman was brought out and stoned, then the man a half an hour later, Aqyar said. He decried the punishment, which he said was ordered by two local Taliban commanders.

A spokesman for the provincial government also condemned the act.

“It is against all human rights and international conventions,” said spokesman Mabubullah Sayedi. “There was no court. It was cruel.”

Amnesty International called the stoning a “heinous crime” that showed the Taliban and other insurgent groups “are growing increasingly brutal in their abuses against Afghans.”

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NEW YORK — Lawyers for a former IBM senior executive said Tuesday that an intimate relationship with a hedge fund company employee who later “played” him led him to feed her confidential information that resulted in his insider trading arrest.

In court papers submitted in federal court in Manhattan, lawyers for Robert Moffat blamed an affair with fellow defendant Danielle Chiesi for behavior that led him to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud. They asked a judge to sentence him to probation on Sept. 13.

Moffat, 53, of Ridgefield, Conn., was charged along with 20 others in what prosecutors have called the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history. Moffat was once considered a candidate for chief executive officer at IBM.

“That fact that what began as a professional relationship between Ms. Chiesi and himself became intimate is a transgression that haunts Bob terribly,” the lawyers wrote.

They said Moffat met Chiesi in 2002 and over time the “relationship with Ms. Chiesi became an intimate one.”

As a result, they said, Moffat on several occasions in 2008 provided Chiesi with information about three companies, including IBM. At the time, Moffat was senior vice president and group executive at International Business Machines Corp.’s Systems and Technology Group.

The lawyers said Chiesi was not the passive recipient of Moffat’s information.

“To the contrary, she manipulated or ‘played’ him to obtain information that she could use,” the court papers said.

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So it’s finally come to this: one way or another, you’re convinced your partner is having an affair. What now?

In Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality, Cacilda Jethá, my co-author (and wife) and I argue that there’s a good reason long term sexual monogamy is hard for human beings. The evidence we present in the book shows that til death do us part may be a wonderful ideal, but it’s anything but an easy (or natural) path for most human beings. Yes, we are moral beings (most of us) with the capacity to override our evolved predispositions to some extent, but maybe, just maybe, an occasional slip on that long and arduous path is to be expected.

Or maybe not. Such notions of tolerance are actively discouraged in America. As Pamela Druckerman explains in Lust in Translation, her survey of global attitudes toward infidelity, “It has come to seem obvious to Americans that the discovery of infidelity leads to a confrontation, followed by counseling, perhaps other forms of support, and a long period of discussion and recovery (sometimes in perpetuity).” Druckerman argues that this “scripted response” to infidelity is promoted by the marriage-industrial complex. She writes, “Just as the military-industrial complex needs wars, the marriage-industrial complex needs adulterous couples to believe they require help from professionals.” And she’s just talking about the couples who are trying to stay together. Those who decide to throw in the towel engage the even more expensive divorce-industrial complex.

So, with both human evolution and global variations in response to infidelity in mind, let’s consider a few things an affair may not mean.

1. Your marriage sucks.

Maybe it does; maybe it doesn’t. But let’s be honest: all marriages suck sometimes. If you don’t know that, you haven’t been married very long or you haven’t been paying attention. Sartre said, “Hell is other people.” Sometimes, that other person is your spouse. But that’s not the only reason people have affairs. The main reason people have affairs is that they can. Or at least they think they can. If you accept the premise of Sex at Dawn (and please consider reading it before rejecting it), it’s utterly normal for all of us to yearn for a little “strange” every once in a while. It’s quite possible that the affair is not a reaction to you or rejection of your marriage at all.

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Negotiated infidelity. The very phrase is enough to send happy couples running for the hills, and tied-up promiscuous blokes clapping their hands with glee. After all, isn’t it against biology to be monogamous? Aren’t we fighting a losing battle in the attempt not to stray? Isn’t fidelity overrated? (For the record, I think the term “negotiated infidelity” is a bona fide oxymoron, but bear with me for now as I introduce you to the argument.)

As one man said to me the other day, “My mother said the biggest mistake I made in my marriage was that I thought I could still date other women. Apparently I couldn’t.”

Another man claimed that, although at fortysomething years old he felt he’d finally met “the one”, he still couldn’t help looking at other women. “I still get those urges and I find them difficult to contain,” he told me. “I find it a real challenge not to act on them even though I’m finally in love with the woman of my dreams.”

Perhaps it’s ego. Perhaps it’s male testosterone. Perhaps it’s selfishness. Perhaps men these days want to have their cake and eat from another one simultaneously. But whatever the reason, as much as I hope never to date (let alone marry) one of these sorts of men, I don’t blame them for their thoughts. After all, it’s within a man’s DNA to look, sometimes touch and mostly think about, doing naughty things with someone of the opposite sex other than their special somebody.

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