Sexyat40

I found an article today that I found a little disturbing. The article, found here, states that 60% of women will embark on some sort of extra marital affair during their marriage.

 I’m unsure of my reaction. Should I jump for joy at the thought of equal rights for women, be saddened by the rising number of women leaving the confines of their  relationship, or take a look at my own personal perception of women and relationships?

I’m not sure if I fully believe the article. I have long held the position that while men will cheat for a myriad of reasons, women will only stray for two distinctive reasons, mental damage from their past or their emotional needs are not being met at home. While that may seem simplistic, those seem to be the two basic categories.

 This study seems to suggest that more women are participating in recreational sex, free of intimacy and the confines of a relationship. Other studies have come out as well, showing biologically that there has always been a percentage of women cheating, with the result throughout history being 10% of children living in a home without their biological father. In most of those cases, going back 30 years or more, neither the child nor the father was unaware of their non-biological relationship.

But that number is 10%, a far cry from the 60% that this survey is reporting.

If the survey numbers are correct, are we as women finding types of pleasure that only men were capable of, or heading down a slippery slope that will leave us feeling more insecure in our sexuality by feeling what can be the emptiness of recreational sex? Does my personal theory of emotional damage or emotional neglect still hold true? If that were the case, it would mean there are more women than ever walking around damaged or neglected.

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