Wednesday - September 02, 2009

Is this a surprising statistic assuming it’s even true?  And it might be.  Who knows? Anyone care?

The article caught my eye because for years I had been under the impression that it was more us guys who were unfaithful so and so’s.  The usual suspects. But then I saw this and thought hmmm. The ladies are one up on us?  Well that figures.  They’re usually ahead of us in lots of ways.
Can’t help wondering why anyone wants to do a study on these things but they’re often fun to read.  What is even more fun to read are the arguments in comments that follow an article like this. Here’s just one example.

Who is anyone kidding, to all the prior post’s to this article it’s really down to human nature and basic instincts, if you disagree that’s fine but you are deluded because I’ve seen and done plenty to know how it all works.

Women can acquire men a lot easier than men can acquire a woman. Men are constantly on the look out for a new conquer therefore the fact that less men have cheated in this poll is due to success rate and no-one can convince me otherwise. Women can get laid most of the time so the ones who feel life is too short stray because the oppotunity was put right in front of them, men on the other hand try and try whether they’re luck is in or not therefore if 3 in 10 have cheated, you’re most likely to find 6 in 10 tried and failed, so 1 in 10 is mature enough not to cheat if in a relationship. The trick is to be single or be committed, any other way and you are a bad person whether you like it or not.

- Razman, London, 01/9/2009 15:16

Four in 10 women have cheated on their partners (compared to just THREE in 10 men)

By Daily Mail Reporter

It’s widely assumed that when it comes to long-term relationships, men are more likely to stray.

But a poll of 3,000 people has turned this assumption on its head - with four in 10 women admitting they have cheated on a partner, compared to just three in 10 men.

Nearly half of the female cheats ended up kissing someone on a night out, while almost a quarter got carried away with a colleague at a work do.

Affair: A quarter of the women who cheated on their partners said they got carried away with a colleague at work .

And more than a third of the women claimed their indiscretion happened ‘by accident’ when their flirting got out of hand. Four in 10 of those surveyed admitted that men ‘often got the wrong idea’ because they were so flirtatious.

Builders, gym instructors and figures of authority are particularly tempting for women, the survey found, and it seems the old cliche about women loving a man in uniform is also true.

But while a quarter of respondents had embarked on a long-term affair, the majority of women said they had cheated on a partner just once.

Many blamed becoming bored in their relationship as the trigger for their indiscretion, while 21 per cent said it only ever happened when they’d had too much to drink.

However, a surprising 12 per cent of women claimed they could never be completely monogamous in a relationship, because ‘life is too short’.

The survey was conducted by Opera North to coincide with the opening of the opera Cosi fan tutte, which deals with the issue of infidelity and translates as ‘All Women Are Like That’.

‘The poll seems to suggest many women consider flirtatious behaviour as harmless and can easily forgive themselves the odd ‘indiscretion’, said a spokeswoman.

SOURCE

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