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Cuckolding

By Ramon Johnson, About.com

Definition: Traditionally, a cuckold (or cuck) is defined as a man who's partner is unfaithful. However, more modern interpretations point to cuckolding as a fetish describing a man's desire to observe his partner have sex with another man.

The term "cuckold" is believed to allude to the habit of a female cuckold that lays her eggs in the nests of other birds. References to cuckolding dates as far back as 1372 in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

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