What could you do with your wife when she caught in adulterous situations? (Joke)

[Tellos Athenaios]

Yeah..... this only worked if you were rich and could afford the thugs to protect you in the ensuing blood fued.

The same could be said in general of all pre modern societies and even some supposedly modern. Just because you were not legally prohibited from killing/maiming someone in certain situations that didn't make it a practical recourse.

Anyway, on the subject of what women could do to obtain divorce in medieval time: say their partner is unable to sexually satisfy her. This is cause for annulment of the marriage and leaves her free to find a more potent partner and you with the stigma. Another opt out possibility was adultery, if you are guilty then she is free to seek annulment of the marriage.

Anyway I believe the stoning of women is still very much current in such beacons of male rights as Saudi Arabia and Iran...