These facts were reported by “AshleyMadison.com,” a dating site for people who want to have affairs:
•Over 50 million married men in the United States are currently cheating on their wives.
•About 50 percent of cheating husbands have multiple affairs.
•About 10 percent of cheating husbands say their marriages have absolutely nothing to do with their cheating.
•Less than 10 percent of cheating husbands tell their wives they’ve cheated without being questioned.
•More than 50 percent of cheating husbands never admit to cheating.
•About one-third of husbands say they never feel guilty about cheating on their wives.
•The number one signal that a husband is cheating or on the road to cheating is him spending more time away from home.
•Surprisingly not even 10 percent of unfaithful husbands say they cheat because they’re predominantly unhappy with their sex lives.
•Just as surprisingly only about 10 percent of cheating husbands say their wives’ appearance is the number one cause of sexual dissatisfaction in the relationship.
•Again, about ten percent of men say their mistresses are better looking or have better bodies than their wives.
•The number one reason husbands say they feel emotional dissatisfaction in the marriage is because they feel unappreciated or their wives are not thoughtful or caring. We can assume that this is the same number one reason that men decide to have an affair.
•The average U.S. couple spends only about 10 minutes a day talking to each other.
•Astonishingly, more than 75% of husbands who have an affair have close friends who also engage in cheating.
•More than 50% of unfaithful husbands witnessed their fathers cheat on their mothers.
Infidelity isn’t something people like to talk about — much less confess. Does anyone really want to admit to being a cheating partner, especially to a pollster. But the following poll results might help put in perspective the frequency and number of adulterers.
Infidelity statistics from the Associated Press.
It’s tough to get a handle on how many of us are having affairs, given the inherent secrecy.
•22 percent of married men have strayed at least once during their married lives.
•14 percent of married women have had affairs at least once during their married lives.
•Younger people are more likely candidates; in fact, younger women are as likely as younger men to be unfaithful.
•70 percent of married women and 54 percent of married men did not know of their spouses’ extramarital activity.
•2–3% of persons identify themselves as homosexual. Homosexuals have become much more widely accepted, and openly show gay pride.
•Women demonstrated a 28 percent likelihood of continuing to date a boyfriend who has had a heterosexual affair and a 21 percent likelihood of staying with someone who has had a homosexual affair. Homosexual, bisexual, and heteroflexible affairs have become more common and more acceptable in today’s society.
•5 percent of married men and 3 percent of married women reported having sex with someone other than their spouse in 1997. Nearly 15 years later, this figure is expected to be doubled or tripled.
•22 percent of men and 14 percent of women admitted to having sexual relations outside their marriage sometime in their past.
•90 percent of Americans believe adultery is morally wrong.
•50 percent of Americans say President Clinton’s adultery makes his moral standard “about the same as the average married man,” according to a Time-CNN poll.
•61 percent of Americans thought adultery should not be a crime in the United states; 35 percent thought it should; 4 percent had no opinion.
•17 percent of divorces in the United States are caused by infidelity.
Newsweek magazine has exposed a well-kept secret—the sex lives of American wives. What they’ve discovered is startling. An estimated 15 percent of women cheat on their husbands. Thus debunking the myth that the men are engaging in all of the extramarital activities.
