In Judaism, why are married men allowed to have affairs with other women?

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Married women are not allowed to have sex outside of marriage, but married men can (i,e, with other women as long as the women aren't married). In my strict Jewish community married Jewish men proposition me to have sex 24/7 due to this "loophole". BTW they are allowed to also have sex with married women but only if she's not Jewish but he's allowed to have sex with single Jewish women per not the bible but Rabbinical law.
For example in the Old Testament if he has sex with a married (Jewish) woman his punishment is to get stoned to death but with a single then no problem even though he is married and can bring an STD to his wife not to mention heartache and impregnante the mistress etc.
The definition of adultery in Judaism is if a married man has sex with a married Jewish woman or if a married Jewish woman has sex outside of marriage (to married or single or non-Jewish alike).
I've had a sexual relationship with a married orthodox rabbi who justified it with this understanding, and like I said tons of married men approach me as I am single but I have lost respect for the community for this reason and have seen it in others. The married women are blind to it but us single ones and the men know all about how this is practiced/abused and personally it has disgusted me to the religion.
 
I am married to a Jewish man and have a large family of Jewish in-laws, plus many Jewish friends, and I have NEVER -- not once -- heard anyone among these people claim that all of the Old Testament laws and social mores are to be considered applicable to Jewish lives today. Far from it.

The Old Testament allows and approves many things that we no longer accept. Ask these men what they think of slavery and polygamy or whether they believe children should be killed for disrespecting their parents. They are scamming you.
 
Women in Judaism are looked down upon greatly and there are even morning prayers recited by Jewish men that thank God that He did not create them as women...

To the present day, orthodox Jewish men in their daily morning prayer recite "Blessed be God King of the universe that Thou has not made me a woman." The women, on the other hand, thank God every morning for "making me according to Thy will." 3 Another prayer found in many Jewish prayer books: "Praised be God that he has not created me a gentile. Praised be God that he has not created me a woman. Praised be God that he has not created me an ignoramus." 4

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To answer your question though;
Jewish Rabbis made it an obligation on Jewish men to produce offspring in order to propagate the race. At the same time, they did not hide their clear preference for male children: "It is well for those whose children are male but ill for those whose are female", "At the birth of a boy, all are joyful...at the birth of a girl all are sorrowful", and "When a boy comes into the world, peace comes into the world... When a girl comes, nothing comes." 7

The Rabbis want to insure the Jewish race, thus encourage men to have sexual affairs in hopes that the 'mistress' as you put it would indeed be impregnate and even state that this would be a legitimate child.

To the present day in Israel, if a married man indulges in an extramarital affair with an unmarried woman, his children by that woman are considered legitimate. But, if a married woman has an affair with another man, whether married or not married, her children by that man are not only illegitimate but they are considered bastards and are forbidden to marry any other Jews except converts and other bastards. This ban is handed down to the childrens' descendants for 10 generations until the taint of adultery is presumably weakened. 1

http://www.beautifulislam.com/women/women_in_islam-1.htm
 
1Cor.14:34-35 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith





35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
 
that is odd. i thought that one of the 10 commandments are that you must not commit adultery. and what adultery means is that one is sleeping with someone out of wedlock? Why would it only apply to women? Perhaps I don't understand jewish laws enough, but the 10 commandments seem pretty clear on that...
 
In the old testament in Deuteronomy it says if a man lays with a woman that is not married or married they are to be stoned. This is stated in Deuteronomy starting around 21:22 all the way to Deuteronomy 23. This area discussed various laws.
 
Wow, all these years and I could have "morally" had an affair? Ah, religion...giving rules to suit the men that wrote them
 
NOT TRUE...GOD IS THE JUDGE AND fornication is sinning. Also adultery. Both are sinning.
 
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