Women are bigger cheaters than men...

[SidDithers]

at least according to this article in The Daily Mail (:rofl:)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1211104/Think-men-unfaithful-sex-A-study-shows-WOMEN-biggest-cheats--theyre-just-better-lying-it.html

Think men are the unfaithful sex? A study shows WOMEN are the biggest cheats - they're just better at lying about it

Are men or women more likely to cheat? While men have always had a worse reputation for being unfaithful, recent studies show that women are catching up fast - but we are a lot more likely to lie about it, and a lot less likely to get caught.

Simply put, it seems that women are better at having affairs than men.

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According to Dr David Holmes, a psychologist at Manchester Metropolitan University, women are having more affairs than ever - recent studies say the figure is around 20 per cent for men and a bit over 15 per cent for women - but they behave very differently from men when they cheat.

'The biggest difference is that women are much better at keeping their affairs secret,' he says. 'If you look at the studies into paternity, even conservative figures show that between eight and 15 per cent of children haven't been fathered by the man who thinks he's the biological parent.'

Now, I know that this is the from Daily Fail, so it's probably just made-up shite. But, in light of the Letterman situation, I thought we needed some equal opportunity outrage around here.

Sid

[BlooInBloo]

1. (shrug) I've heard stories from cabbies about girls on 'girls nights out' at clubs and such...

Doesn't really matter though, since I support the right of an adult woman to do whatever she freely chooses with her body.

[Truth2Tell]

2. Oh boy...

:popcorn:

[noiretextatique]

3. recent studies say the figure is around 20% for men and a bit over 15% for women

i didn't know 15% was greater than 20%. only on DU :shrug:

[seabeyond]

14. Sid... curious why you havent repsonded. twice stating women bigger cheaters as number states

otherwise.

now, i dont have a bone to pick cause i figure the numbers of women cheating are right with men, .... regardless, you wrote a title that seems, at face value, to be entirely opposite of the facts

[SidDithers]

15. My apologies. I actually meant to post better, not bigger, in the title...

because I agree with you, 15% isn't bigger than 20%. But then got busy in the kitchen making dinner, and this is the first chance I've had to get back online. I would have changed it, if I'd been back before the edit period was closed.

The "biggest" reference in the quote box is, obviously, a direct quote from the linked article.

Sid

[seabeyond]

17. i hear ya. thanks. i figured it must have been something. nt

[newscott]

4. My ex wife wasn't very good about lying about hers.

[Warpy]

5. Everybody who does transplant medicine knows that 15%

is about right, the usual number of daddies who can't possibly have been the sperm donor for a particular child.

I've seen other studies that have shown that slightly under 50% of women cheat and slightly over 50% of men cheat. In any case, it happens with great enough frequency it should be considered a norm for both sexes.

Unfortunately, the cheaters rarely marry each other.

[Xenotime]

6. Why can't there be mutual "friendships"? One you marry and they other you have sex with.

Life would be so less stressful.

[redqueen]

8. There can be whatever the individuals involved want.

The problem is, some want monogamy, and others who just want sex seem to think it's fine to lie to those people, and claim they want the same thing, when they really don't.

[seabeyond]

7. i hear it is closer to equal affairs by genders. shoots to shit the "wired" theory.

more to do with character

[nolabear]

9. Yep, and by that standard about 7% is with one another.

Neener neener neener!:pals:

[Brooklyns_Finest]

10. Not really equal

I would say a much higher percentage of men who haven't cheated would cheat if they had the opportunity. Women, on the other hand, have an endless supply of penises at their disposal, so that 15% is actually a small number, if it is true.

[seabeyond]

11. do you cheat? or do you just not have opportunity?

[Brooklyns_Finest]

13. I am single now

So your question is moot.

But in the past I have gotten some side trim....

[malaise]

12. I thought everyone knew that

:rofl:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. I think that's low balling it for both.

[bridgit]

18. I only cheat with intergalactic champions on days hubby has high tea with Barb Wire

[SidDithers]

19. Leelu Dallas...

Multipass :)

Sid

[ProdigalJunkMail]

20. We know it's a Multipass...of course it's a Multipass n/t

[Odin2005]

21. The Daily Hate Mail is full of shit.

[TexasObserver]

22. I've read that in the same environment, men & women cheat equally.

Take a company with 100 men and 100 women, all holding similar jobs.

About the same percentage of men and women should be adulterous.