Men have long been portrayed as serial adulterers while their long-suffering wives keep the home running and children fed and watered. But research has revealed that it is women - and not men - who are most likely to play away from home, according to the self-confessed philanderers themselves.
Seeking Romance
The survey quizzed 4,000 love-cheats, equally split between the sexes, and found that women are the most promiscuous, having on average 2.3 illicit partners compared with just 1.8 for men.
The research also reveals dramatically different reasons why men and women have an affair. While men cited the pursuit of sexual excitement, boredom with their marriages and the need of an ego boost as their main reasons for cheating, women were more likely to be seeking emotional fulfilment, improved self-esteem and the promise of romance when they strayed. Female adulterers are also far more prone to falling in love with their lover than their male equivalents.
The results of the survey challenge the commonly held view that men are more adulterous than women. It appears that once they have made the decision to have an affair, women have far more opportunity to find someone to cheat with.
Secrets and Lies
Other intriguing facts to emerge from the survey include: • Most male and female philanderers think that monogamy is an unnatural state for humans. • Women are likely to be the first to get itchy feet. While unfaithful men do not have their first affair until almost six years of married life, female cheaters stray just five years after exchanging their vows. • Most UK adulterers still love their spouses and have no intention of getting divorced. • Women are far more likely than men to tell someone else about their affair. • Adulteresses tend to be significantly younger than adulterers with their average age at 37 compared to men at 42. • Most cheaters are having their affairs in secret, unbeknown to their husband or wife • More men continue to have sex with their partners while having an affair than women. • Only eight per cent of men think their wife is better in bed than their lover while 27% of female philanderers rate their husband higher. • Many adulterers are hypocrites! Over 40% of female cheaters and almost 30% of men would ask for a divorce if they discovered their spouse was having an affair.
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