HUFFINGTON POST: According to a report by Bloomberg Businessweek published this week, the most recent data from the National Opinion Research Center’s General Social Survey show that women have had more affairs in the past two decades then in previous years. The percentage of men who admitted to infidelity “held constant at 21 percent,” while “the percentage of wives having affairs rose almost 40 percent … to 14.7 percent in 2010.”…
One of the potential reasons for the increase in female infidelity is the changing cultural and economic climate in America, Pepper Schwartz, a University of Washington sociologist, told Bloomberg.
“[Women] can afford the potential consequences of an affair, with higher incomes and more job prospects,” she said. “They have more economic independence and may meet a better class of mate.”… (more)
EDITOR: Doing the math, it would appear that men are having more affairs and less contact with sex workers. This may not bode well for marriages… at least current ones.
