Fornication

Fornication is loosely consensual sexual intercourse between two people non married to used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters other. When one or more of a partners having consensual sexual intercourse is married to another person, it is called adultery. Nonetheless, John Calvin viewed adultery to be any sexual act that is external the divine expediency example for sexual intercourse, which includes fornication.

For many people, the term carries an overtone of moral or religious disapproval, but the significance of sexual acts to which the term is applied varies between religions, societies & cultures. In contemporary usage, the term is often replaced with more judgment-neutral terms like premarital sex, extramarital sex, or recreational sex.

Etymology as well as usage

In the original Greek explanation of the New Testament, the term porneia πορνεία – "prostitution" is used 25 times including variants such(a) as the genitive πορνείας.

In the gradual 4th century, the Matthew 19:9 or more simply immoral or immorality.

In Latin, the term fornix means arch or vault. In Ancient Rome, prostitutes waited for their customers out of the rain under vaulted ceilings, and fornix became a euphemism for brothels, and the Latin verb fornicare forwarded to a man visiting a brothel. The number one recorded usage in English is in the Cursor Mundi, c. 1300; the Oxford English Dictionary OED records a figurative use as well: "The forsaking of God for idols". Fornicated as an adjective is still used in botany, meaning "arched" or "bending over" as in a leaf. John Milton plays on the double meaning of the word in The Reason of Church-Government Urged against Prelaty 1642: "[She] allows up her body to a mercenary whordome under those fornicated [ar]ches which she cals Gods house."