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I find myself curious. I don't know the actual statistics and I feel it would be hard to find stats about gossip but I will share my experience.

Personally I find that lots of guys who actually can cheat easily do openly talk about it with their guy friends. I'd say over 50%. Notice I said guys who can, meaning guys who are at least attractive enough to have options. For me personally, the people closest to me are pretty attractive but devoted to their partners, and I absolutely love them too. I feel I am good at surrounding myself with loyal people, but outside of my closest friends and family, this commitment is lacking. I also work in an environment with lots of attractive people, so it is hard for the guys and the girls not to at least take some glances, and I do not see anything wrong with this, but there are definitely plenty of people guys trying or actually cheating on their partner. I have definitely spoken to girls who are like this too, but I am also careful at work when I am talking to a woman because sexual harassment cases have been an issue here. Some have definitely falsely gone in the women's favor due to the nature of our society.

Republicans on the House Ethics Committee voted not to release the results of their investigation into president-elect Donald Trump's attorney general pick, Matt Gaetz, despite growing calls to make the findings public ahead of his confirmation hearing. This comes after two women testified before the committee and said that they were paid for "sexual favors" by the ex-congressman.

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/30/supreme-court-lgbtq-wedding-website
Supreme Court rules businesses can refuse service to LGBTQ+ customers

Businesses can refuse to serve same-sex couples if doing so would violate the owners' religious beliefs, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday.

Why it matters: The court has significantly expanded LGBTQ rights over the past several years, but is now carving out some exceptions.

Driving the news: The case concerns Lorie Smith, a Colorado web designer who wanted to create and sell wedding websites, but not to same-sex couples.

Colorado's civil rights law prohibited her, or any business that serves the general public, from turning away customers because of their sexual orientation. She said complying with that law would force her to espouse views she does not agree with.
"The artwork that I create is speech," Smith told Colorado Public Radio in December, adding that, "those messages must be consistent with my convictions."
The big picture: The conservative-majority Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of Smith, saying she has a First Amendment right to refuse to design custom wedding websites for same-sex couples.

"The First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands. Colorado cannot deny that promise consistent with the First Amendment," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-same-sex-couples_n_6481d91de4b025003edbde97#
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Discrimination Of Same-Sex Couple

The Supreme Court on Friday greatly expanded the rights of people who want to discriminate against same-sex couples in a case involving an amateur website designer who was never even asked to make a website for a same-sex wedding.

In 303 Creative v. Elenis, amateur web designer Lori Smith asked the court to grant her the right under the First Amendment to refuse service to gay and lesbian couples due to her Christian religious beliefs. But Smith’s request was wholly speculative. She had not been hired to make a website for a same-sex couple and, therefore, had never refused such work. In fact, she’s never made a single wedding website.

Despite the underlying claim being totally made up, the court sided with Smith’s religious liberty argument. In a 6-3 vote, the court’s conservatives ruled that a civil rights law in Colorado that bars anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination violated Smith’s First Amendment speech rights. In doing so, they made it much easier for businesses to discriminate. A new wave of litigation further expanding discrimination is likely to follow.
Smith had claimed that Colorado’s anti-discrimination act, which prohibits denial of goods, services or facilities “because of disability, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, national origin, or ancestry,” violated her First Amendment rights by requiring her to take commissions with what she said was a message she did not agree with — specifically, websites celebrating the weddings of same-sex couples.