Here’s a twist on “He’s cheating on me with a younger woman.” Shelly Pickering found her husband cheating on her with a younger man, and she’s heading to court in Vancouver to challenge the legal definition of adultery after she was told by a judge that he would not order an immediate divorce because the definition of adultery in common law does not include homosexual relations. I take it she has no interest in joining them. Heh.

The traditional definition of adultery, which dates back to church-based courts in England, is “penetrative sexual contact between a man and a woman not married to each other and one of whom is married to someone else,” notes Ms. Pickering’s lawyer, barbara findlay (who spells her name in lower-case letters).

Ms. findlay argues that the definition of adultery is as outdated as the original common-law definition of marriage, which was based on procreation. Times have changed, along with the definition of marriage, and so too should the definition of adultery, she said.