Almost 4,000 years back, Babylonian master Hammurabi declared that anyone caught cheating on the partner should be drowned.

The Aztecs, should they caught a lady cheating on her behalf spouse, would often impale her, but more frequently chosen to stone her to death.

And across big swaths associated with the ancient globe — Greece, Rome and Egypt — adulterers had been prone to have their noses take off.

Historians usually say that prohibition is proof of transgression. Read more