There is no way to predict how 100% of the population will react to a given situation as personal as the betrayal of spousal trust. Some people may be more chill. Some people may react with extreme violence. As a preventative measure meant to discourage adultery, criminal prosecution would hopefully make people thinking to commit adultery, think twice.
Otherwise, society could be impacted by the violent retribution jilted spouses commit in the heat of passion.
NO. Your wife/husband can refuse you a divorce for years and years, and then legally harass your new partner. THIS is the problem.
Yes, the problem is with the divorce laws. Not the adultery laws.
From the linked article at Taipei Times:
In one case, the mistress claimed she stuck a hot dog into a condom along with her loverâs sperm and put the âfake penisâ inside herself so as to get pregnant by standing on her head.
Another found a wife filming a noisy romp in a car between her husband and his alleged mistress. When shown the recording in court, the adulterous pair claimed that they were praying loudly and discussing Christian teachings.
A third involved a husband sending his wifeâs used sanitary pads to be tested for sperm. The test came back positive â but the sperm wasnât her husbandâs. The wife claimed that she had âborrowedâ the sperm from a man surnamed Tang, who admitted that he âlentâ it to her, but had no idea what she was going to do with it.
To inject a little humor: itâs a shame that the mistress in the first case is a mistress and not a wife.
If I knew where to find a woman who would concoct a story about sticking a hot dog into a condom along with my sperm and putting the âfake penisâ inside herself and standing on her head to get pregnant with my child, and admit this in a legal setting, Iâd make a lifelong commitment on the spot.
And if anyone knows anything about this sperm lending business, please share more. What sort of interest rates are we looking at here? Asking for a friend.
Hey those are not my words! Please edit to clarify you are following Noah Buchanâs reporting in the Taipei Times. Thank you.
Guy
So you would like to see adultery limited to civil law?
Oh, I suppose not.
Also, itâs a kind of indirect endorsement inasmuch as a fraudulent marriage would (theoretically) be rejected by the state.
I suppose I backed myself into a corner 
Yes, I feel there should be a law, but a civil matter.
While I donât condone extreme violent actions, it would feel unjust to me if some homewrecker who intentionally messed up a family because of their own selfish wants, gets away scot free.
If the law wonât punish the perpetrator, then at least the law should take into account the mental instability of the person exacting retribution if said person should snap and beat the perpetrator within an inch of his life.
Have you read the Criminal Code? They actually did think of stuff like that.
Another thing to consider with the adultery law is, if threat of criminal prosecution is the only thing keeping spouses âfaithfulâ to each other, there must be bigger problems theyâre not addressing, and one might say the law encourages them to carry on refusing to deal with their problems. (I canât find the Marital Mirth cartoon Iâm looking forâŚ)
This!
You have a point there. Still, itâs not the threat to keep a marriage together. Itâs more of a threat to outsiders thinking of seducing a person already in a marriage. Those type of people with such mindset are just pure garbage. I believe that is the true intent of that law.
In one case, the mistress claimed she stuck a hot dog into a condom along with her loverâs sperm and put the âfake penisâ inside herself so as to get pregnant by standing on her head
Anyone notice the flaw in this story?
Maybe she was going to say the hot dog was too big and the condom broke? In any case, sheâs still a winner in my book! Crazy never comes up with a perfectly sensible story.
I got a feeling that adultery is intentionally very hard to prosecute because it would make Taiwan look very bad if they actually enforced it normally.
It means unless someone is sleeping with someone else, AND itâs a consented video of the act (which would really only work if itâs a porn shoot), and the prosecutor would stop at nothing to prosecute and the judge is a feminist or something (if the defendant was the man). Then maybe it may result in a conviction.
And as far as I know porn isnât really legal in Taiwan to film so itâs really easy to get it shot down as evidence.
So in practice the law is just for unscrupulous private investigators and lawyers to extort adulterers.
It may be a translation/editing problem. It doesnât explicitly say the liquid went on the inside of the prophylactic. 
But both parties are liable, so itâs a threat to both parties.
True.
But, this gives the offended partner an alternative to choose. Instead of getting violent, they could choose the legal path.
Letâs revisit an earlier statement.
Now for a substitution exercise⌠
People who want to keep this law are probably already stuck in lousy marriages they want to keep going for selfish reasons. Otherwise this law holds no relevance to a personâs daily life.
I donât think thatâs entirely true, but you see how easy it is to make a statement like that?
Yes
Ever wonder how Taiwanâs adultery laws came into being?
Han Cheungâs latest feature in the Taipei Times takes us from the Qing dynasty to the present to figure out how we got here.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2020/04/12/2003734452
Guy