DNA and Cheating Women

[RedpoleQ]

Check out this article about how similar cell markers in a couple will increase the woman's chance of cheating!!!

http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn10847

[JimSmith]

I personally think women have a higher tendency to cheat than men do in an exclusive relationship, or during marriage. Especially after reading Nancy Friday's book of their sexual fantasies.

Statistically i think it says that more men cheat more than women on average. Does anyone have any info on this? It's hard to tell cause i doubt women even admit cheating as much in a survey cause they deny alot of things.

[Mojo]

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Women are found not to cheat more than men do not because they cheat less, but because they cheat more smartly. They do not get caught as often as men. Why? Genetically women have more to loose if caught, mainly loosing their current's mate willingness to take care of their young and thus aid in passing on their genes. As you know, men's investment in a baby is less than that of a women, since the baby is carried by the woman and will be cared by the woman. All a man needs to do is impregnate as many women as he wants, not needing to stick around, and his genes are passed on. A women must stick around to ensure the survival of her child. Having a man help aids this. Loosing a man impedes this. Having sperm from another man aids her genes as to let another vaiation of genes mixture that may be better survive her current mates. Women are programmed to be smarter in this (cheating) aspect.

[RedpoleQ]

Don't forget that when a woman cheats the man she cheats with usually has NO interest in the real guy finding out because he doesn't want the woman for himself.

On the other hand, guys cheat with a girl and that girl wants to steal the guy. If she causes enough drama by just doing little things to piss off the gf or the wife, she can break it up and keep the guy for herself while making it look like it's all the wife's/gf's fault that things went bad for being overly emotional.

[Mojo]

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Pulse, when I say women are smarter when it comes to cheating, I mean they are more careful about not being caught since it would be more costly for them (i.e. their genes) if they were caught and loss the support, and thus resources of her mate.

For example, I recall reading an article that studied who is more likely to cheat when out of town and away from home, a man or a woman. Women were more likely. This makes sense since there is little chance/no chance that they would get caught.

Men are not as careful. And maybe, it in in their genes interest to be caught cheating after mating with a woman. Why? If caught, their curent woman may leave him, taking their child, freeing him to find yet another woman to help pass on his genes (This last postulation is solely mine - while no scientific studies to back it up, though does make sense).

[TheOmegaMan]

Men are not as careful. And maybe, it in in their genes interest to be caught cheating after mating with a woman. Why? If caught, their curent woman may leave him, taking their child, freeing him to find yet another woman to help pass on his genes (This last postulation is solely mine - while no scientific studies to back it up, though does make sense).

I would respectfully disagree. Men usually are not thinking with their (right) head. Some women cheated and do everything they could to be sure their men find out just to spite them.

In general, women discreetly cheat quite a bit. This comes up when we do genetic tests on parents to find out the source of their children's disorder; it's well known that non-paternity, where the biological father is not the same as who the mother claimed, is about 15-20%. In some populations where ppl surveyed for other statistical purposes, they have found that non-paternity can vary from 40-60%.

In fact, recent studies have shown that grandmothers like children of their daughters more than their sons'; some how we have evolved to recognize this non-paternity issue.

[sting]

I personally think women have a higher tendency to cheat than men do in an exclusive relationship, or during marriage. Especially after reading Nancy Friday's book of their sexual fantasies.

Statistically i think it says that more men cheat more than women on average. Does anyone have any info on this? It's hard to tell cause i doubt women even admit cheating as much in a survey cause they deny alot of things.

Well... i haven't read the book you mentioned, but its "shocking" because we've been taught to think of women as so not like that. no one is shocked to find out men have fantasies about the nanny, their kids teacher, their neighbour... anything without a pole between the legs in short.
double standards here.


i agree with the second part of JM's post. for men, cheating/ONSing is almost a matter of pride, for women its a secret to guard. hence, the stats might be skewed.
i've seen many more cheating women than men... but this is likely because they can do so whenever they want to. men who have the oppurtunity plunge more often than women with an oppurtunity do.


cheers,
Sting

[Yoda]

I think PUA's tend to reveal cheating tendencies in women quite frequently.

Isn't that how some people become misogynists?