The first thing we might notice about this situation is that somebody is missing. I mean, where’s the dude? Did this woman’s lover—the guy whose bed she just got dragged out of—get handed a Get Out of Jail Free card or something? Only the female partner in sin was being forced to face the music. In that time and place, while promiscuous men often got a pass, women of loose morals were looked down on severely. Or to put it another way, this woman hauled before Jesus was considered to be messy.
