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I think the reaction to these events demonstrates it's clearly not socially acceptable. Even under the highly individualistic, "WEIRD" morality (in Jonathan Haidt's terms) both cheating at a competition and cheating on your spouse are wrong.
If anything, I would suggest that these things are actually more likely to generate condemnation than in the past. Sports and other competitions have a long history of cheating scandals, from the Black Sox to Congressional baseball steroid use hearings to the early days of Magic: The Gathering when effectively the only rule was "if you got away with it, it wasn't cheating" to the 1904 Olympic marathon, one of the most bizarre competitions in sports history, in which the original winner was disqualified for cheating and the eventual winner should have been, given that he didn't complete the race under his own power.
The other kind of cheating was also quite common, at least among nobility and rulers. TBH, it's unclear if many civilizations even had the idea that monogamy applied to rulers, but even if it in theory was supposed to, for example after the Christianization of Europe, it doesn't seem to have impacted their ability to rule (well, social condemnation didn't matter; the practicalities of having many competing possible heirs is another story). For example, William IV of Great Britain had 10 illegitimate children in the early 1800s, and as far as I can tell, history is full of kings and emperors with mistresses, concubines, and lovers from the Andes to China to the Mediterranean. Probably the average person was subject to stricter monogamy norms.
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