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What term can be used to describe someone who, to take revenge on or extract payback for (perceived) past wrongs done them by their (unfaithful) romantic partner, goes off and has casual sex with someone other than their customary partner?

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    What are the circumstances in which this would constitute taking revenge?
    – Neil W
    Commented May 31, 2014 at 8:19
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    @Neil Getting back at a cheating boy-/girlfriend by cheating on them?
    – Janus Bahs Jacquet
    Commented May 31, 2014 at 8:21
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    Well, there's an eye for an eye, so this one could be an eye for a ***
    – Noah
    Commented May 31, 2014 at 8:46
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    Revenge sex is a term with some currency (though it has slightly different meanings depending on whom you ask), but it refers to the act, rather than the person. The transparently derived revenge sexer yields exactly one (relevant) hit on Google, so it’s probably safe to say it is not usable.
    – Janus Bahs Jacquet
    Commented May 31, 2014 at 10:48
  • call is sex feud akin to blood feud
    – user31341
    Commented May 31, 2014 at 15:12

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First, I would say that this person has his/her priorities mixed up. Then I would say that person is vengeful:

Desiring vengeance; indicating or proceeding from a desire for revenge.

vindictive and spiteful work as well:

Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; marked by or resulting from a desire to hurt; spiteful.

Other similar words are resentful: full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will; "resentful at the way he was treated".

Or, they might not be angry at all, but maliciously calculating.

There are also bitter, hurt, wounded, angry, offended, put out, jealous, pissed, incensed, grudging, aggrieved, indignant, pissed off, irate, miffed, embittered, unforgiving, and peeved, but not all of them apply equally.

I would not differentiate on th basis of gender. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

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    I agree with your last sentence (the inclusion of “with the opposite sex” seemed very arbitrary and unnecessary to me when I read the question); but all the words you mention fall short of the mark in that they do not imply sexual relations in any way. That I do feel is an integral part of the question. (Whether there are any words that don’t fall short of the mark, though, is a different matter. I can’t come up with any.)
    – Janus Bahs Jacquet
    Commented May 31, 2014 at 9:46
  • @JanusBahsJacquet I’ve edited the question to be both more descriptive and less restrictive in its biases of sexual chirality.
    – tchrist ♦
    Commented May 31, 2014 at 15:13
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Talionic: adj. -pertaining to revenge in kind; retributive; like for like; pertaining to revenge in kind

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Talionic: Of or pertaining to the law of talion, or to the rendering of like for like.

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  • "retaliative" is another adjective that is etymologically related.
    – herisson
    Commented Oct 14, 2016 at 1:29
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What word can be used to describe someone that takes revenge or payback for wrong done in the past through having a casual sexual intercourse with the opposite sex?

Consider sexually retaliatory.

"Sexual Retaliation against the Opposite Gender: The pattern of sexual retaliation against the opposite gender involves a predominantly hostile reaction to breakup, in which the main purpose of sex is to hurt and humiliate any new lover."

retaliate: to return like for like; esp. to get revenge.

Alternate terms are sexual revenge and sexually revengeful, sexual vengeance, and revenge sex.

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  • I hate it when an answer gets repeated downvotes but no comments as to what the downvoters would see improved.
    – tchrist ♦
    Commented May 31, 2014 at 15:19
  • +1- good answer, and also to undo your downvote.
    – anongoodnurse
    Commented May 31, 2014 at 15:36
  • I like the term but I understood it to be used as a power play over a subordinate, and not a revenge f*ck
    – Third News
    Commented Jun 1, 2014 at 1:40
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    This sounds like "you're pissed at [gender] so you treat your next [gender]friend badly," which is almost the opposite of what's being asked for. The behavior described is that you've been cheated on (or otherwise mistreated by a partner), so you're going to go have a lot of sex with other people to make your partner jealous"
    – KRyan
    Commented Jun 14, 2014 at 5:21

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