
According to recent statistics discussed everywhere from message boards and blogs to women’s magazines and on television news programs more women than ever before are either cheating on a spouse or are seriously thinking about cheating on their husband or partner.
Some relationship experts and feminists assert a connection between the women’s liberation movement and equality for women in recent decades, claiming it is emboldening women to get more in touch with their own self-serving needs, thus making them feel entitled to cheat. As one feminist themed blog puts it, “Current research shows that women engage in intercourse with multiple partners as readily as men when they have the freedom and opportunity.”
Whatever your own theory regarding an increase in women cheating and thinking about cheating on their husbands, it appears to be unanimously agreed upon that women cheat for different reasons from men. In a quote from More Magazine which caters mainly to women in their forties and fifties, “[Cheating] is not just a boys’ game. Many women I know, nice, respectful, wonderful women who love or loved their husbands, have had affairs.” A woman can love her husband dearly yet still be inclined to cheat, just like a man would be, with a notable difference: it is not sexual variety she is after, but sexual and/or emotional fulfillment.
Citing an article entitled, “High Infidelity” by Marcelle Fischler, which explores the rising trend of women cheating, infidelity expert Ruth Houston asserts, “The No.1, 2 and 3 reasons for men [cheating] relates to sex.



