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Originally Posted by BuzzardsWife
I think it used to be that men cheated wayyy more than women, but in today's world it is probably alot closer to equal. I think it still goes like this though : Women cheat because they are unhappy, Men cheat because they can. I do believe that most women that are happily married never consider cheating, where I think men can be happily married and still want to cheat because its natural for them to want variety. I don't think men are any worse for cheating than women. I think everyone fantasizes about it at some point, but actually doing it is a moral issue, not a gender issue.
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People cheat because they are unhappy, unfulfilled, have the opportunity, etc. Gender doesn't matter when the act of cheating occurs.
Women tend to equate sex with love more then Men. So perhaps that's where this idea might come from. For women, cheating is a profound violation of an emotional relationship, whereas for most men, it's just sex. But characterizing these strictly in gender stereotypes is too limiting to draw any useful conclusions from.
I think the difference for gender becomes apparent in the justification of said acts though. In most cases, women cheat because their man failed them. Men tend to cheat because they get the opportunity to and think they can get away with it.