Studies say that women cheat more than men?

Question

Recent studies report that women actually are the heavyweights of cheating. Simply put, it's said that women cheat on their spouse more often than men do. And worse, women seem to be better cheaters than men.
Yet, guys are more than likely to be labeled by women as noncommittal or untrustworthy. To be fair, it has  been said that guilty people scream the loudest... hmm.  
Anyway, in your opinion, who cheats more in relationships, men or women? Why?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

There is no loyalty left around us. There is no shame, no respect, no decency.
Unfortunately women are VERY likely to cheat and if confronted or others find out, they blame being weak, blame their (in) Significant other, blame the weather. Hell some will even say it's part of being independent these days and act like "yeah, whatever".
It's disgusting.
I went to uni. I know guys that would bang a diff one at 2 weeks intervals.(more or less). BUT they weren't in relationships and kept it that way. Everybody knew it.
On the other hand, girls that you made you say "god damn, that bf of hers is so lucky", proved to be massive cheaters.
One of them called me up at her home to help her move the new furniture she was getting.(she said he BF is gone for the weekend and doesn't want to wait for him).
i seriously didn't expect her to literally jump on me the minute i stepped in the house. I told her to calm down. I still feel sorry for the dude.
Another one would always bang some guy, even if she had one she was calling Boyfriend. One night she enters in my room, gets naked and gets under the cover and waits there. I told her to fuck off!

A girl (X) tells a guy in the group how some other girl (Y) is looking for sex and asks him if he is interested. This girl (X) that made the proposal, KNEW he already had a Gf (Z) and was good friends with her. And no the guy didn't have an "open" relationship.

A few years ago i was inclined to believe cheating is rare but unfortunately it is not.
i look around and feel disgusted as people smile when they hear someone cheated, they condone the behavior and sometimes even set someone up for cheating. These are the moments you realize how cheating is actually everywhere and done by everyone. So i'm seriously thinking to warn my next gf "if you want out, you can go, nobody forces you to stay, BUT if you cheat, you'll regret it your whole life".

Theguyoverthere · Accepted Answer

Well first off you'd have to define "cheating." Whenever people talk about cheating, it's always sexual. But people forget that sometimes other things sought outside of the relationship are "cheating" since they're supposed to be handled in the relationship. Like a guy can be getting hugs from another girl because he feels unloved and his girlfriend neglects him, but since there was no kissing and such, it doesn't get labeled as cheating.

Now I will say if we're defining cheating as sexual stuff, women easily would be much more guilty of it. I would say this simply because of the amount of "work" a guy would have to put in to get the chance to cheat. Women can walk into a bar, get free drinks, selfishly sponge a guy's attention while he stands there hoping she'll have sex with him, go home with him and have all the sex she wants. For a guy, it's one small comment that she doesn't want to hear and even though it'd have no impact on the actual sex, he's "lost his chances."

On top of that, I have a bit of a "history" sexually and still girls outnumber me when it comes to sex partners. I know a girl who is like... 19-20 and she's got more sexual partners than I do and I'm 29.

eHeart95 · Accepted Answer

Not going to lie; I have no experience being a cheater or cheated on. BUT I know that more guys that have been cheated on than have cheated.
From my understanding, women are less stereotyped as the cheater so they can get away with it easier. Partly because if a guy is having an affair with a married woman, he's getting some and is noncommittal but if a girl is having an affair with a married guy, she's a home-wrecking conniving b-tch.
Also, I think fewer guys jump to the conclusion of "She's cheating on me" than girls do. So they are able to get away with it for longer.
Plus (and feel free to argue against this) most women will plan things further in advance than guys. So a woman who is having an affair could say she's "go to a spa day with girl friends" and a guy would be more willing to accept that because it's not as spontaneous as "going to get drinks with the guys after a day of work".
Would I be surprised that women cheat more? No. Would I be surprised to hear that they get away with it longer? Nope. Does it make it any less wrong for a woman to cheat? Not at all.

SaVes · Accepted Answer

Some studies say this, other studies say that. I wouldn't take any of those studies too serious.

Just look at this poll here. The clear majority of females say that men cheat more often, while the clear majority of males say that women cheat more often.
What does this tell us other than that people usually just blindly try to defend their own gender while blaming the other gender at the same time? Nothing. People will always most likely choose to believe in the "facts" that are most convenient to themselves.

But to answer your question what I think who cheats more in relationships, my answer is: dishonest, unfaithful people. That's all I have to say.

XRabbitHeartX · Accepted Answer

Take a statistics class at uni for a year please. Then you'll realize that most studies are crap and don't mean much. They often decided before the time what they want the study to prove and it's very much possible to sway any study a certain way. I believe both genders are capable of cheating and that's all there is needed to know. I couldn't care about statistics. They don't take into account that each person is different and I just don't see the point in why it should matter who cheats more anyway. It's not like it's going to significantly change much if we knew which gender cheated more.

Conviction · Answer

I believe it depends upon the upbringing. If you're born in a family were both parents are loyal and teach good morals to their children. The children will learn to lead a beautiful and honourable life.

Regarding the case, I think women have bigger "chances" to cheat more than. If you see in the past men were the bigger cheaters. Women got too frustrated and began to counterattack men with their own medicine. Hence there are more feminists nowadays.
As well as more cheaters.

We men brought this on ourselves.

Tractorbeam · Answer

I believe that a lesser number of women cheat during marriage, but they do it nmuch sooner and much more often than the men do.Surveys seem to indicate this, but women are much better liars and much better at covering their tracks than men are.The true figure could be higher, but it could be around 29%.

Women typically begin cheating after 5 years of marriage, and they look for an emotional relationship.It's still a minority of women.
Men typically begin cheating after 10 years of marriage, after missing out on sex for 5 years.They only look for sex (because they've had no physical affection for so long), and aren't tying to start a new relationship.

Logically, for every cheating man there must be a cheating woman.About 75% of people are in a relationship, so the odds are that they're not cheating with single people.

kuri1234 · Answer

I think maybe both cheat, it's just that girls voice it more. I feel that there may be an issue of if a girl cheats on a man it makes them less of a man. Girls share everything with their other girl and sometimes guy friends, whereas guys would probably tend to hide the fact that a girl has cheated on him due to embarrassment I guess. I think girls may cheat more as they are generally more insecure in a relationship, they are more sensitive to issues and get upset a lot more and tend to attach to anyone or anything that is nice to them. I think guys main motive for cheating is maybe more sexual than emotional. They're not getting enough or any sex from their other half, or maybe they've seen someone prettier or something like that.

Anonymous · Answer

I've seen studies that go both ways. I've also known people of both sexes who cheat. I'd say it's about equal.

It SEEMS (I have no data to back this) that it seems like more men cheat with the intent to stay in their long term relationship, though. Almost all of the women I know who have cheated seem to do so with the intent of leaving the relationship, whereas it seems more iffy with the guys. It seems like a small minority of guys cheat, despite wanting to stay in the relationship with their long term partner..

thtdiablo · Answer

Do you actually have a source for what you state here? The most recent study I know is from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, dates to Nov 2013 and says that 58% of all men asked have at least once cheated on their partner while it was "only" 42% for women.

cheesesteak7 · Answer

"recent" studies? I think this has been datamined for some time now...

Anyway, I think it just depends on how to define "cheating" for me. I know some people think just having feelings for someone else is cheating - emotional cheating. I know others who are fine if their S/O maybe kisses or gropes someone else, as they narrow down cheating to sexual intercourse only. I'm a bit more lenient on it...

Mesonfielde · Answer

I'm pretty sure the general tendency should be that men cheat more often, because men are those who seem more often to treat "women" as "women", and not as the person that they are. As such, they are more likely to be emotionally detached, and reach out to "use" 'others' of the "same kind".

Of course, this is disgusting to write down as well. Sexism sucks, and many people seem to figure that it's beneficial to them, so there is no reason for them to stop doing it.

Deft_maiden · Answer

Not sure what studies you have been reading. But if you google the topic you will find out that is not the case. However women are about 10to 15% behind. The reasons for cheating varies based on gender. men for variety, and women for intimacy and attention.

Anonymous · Answer

I don't understand the importance of this... are you trying to start a gender debate? hoping that the girls will all scream "men" and the boys will all scream "women" and then everyone argues in the comments?

This is silly. So what if one gender statistically cheats more? it doesn't say anything about individuals.

If women truly cheat more and are better cheaters, are you just going to stop dating all women? no. so what does it matter?

man32 · Answer

what ever it is. I would say, men are the reason behind the increased cheating.
1) men gave too much attention and give more expectations to girls to get her attracted and fall for them. once the girl is his. he stops the level of attention and give less expectations for her and his lady slides down the priority list. so, the lady starts to miss the old attention (they thrive on it) and men fail to realize ladies expectations increase never decrease. so they tend to get heart broken

2) other men who love to fuck women irrespective of their statuses (single or taken or married) use this situation to get in with her... she feels like someone appreciates and make them feel special again. so women fall for the traps.
so, technically its reason is for men :) :)

Pegases · Answer

Women are better liars and cheaters than men, so even this statistic is skewed, because most women are going to lie about it. I think of this the same way I think of a woman's body count. Almost all women are going to lie to you about the real number. So if most women are lying about that for fear of societal backlash, most women aren't going to be upfront about cheating either. But women do have more options in the modern day. Coupled with the fact that women most often get away with cheating and lying, it would make sense that women cheat more than men.

DanteSparda · Answer

I think it's somewhat true.
Studies also says that most of the females don't know what they want

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtU2Tucc_2U

In that video, Hilary Swank says the same line :P
At the opposite end, most of guys always know what they want in a relationship,
So according to me that's the reason why girls more cheat than guys.
Hope that helps :)

Hannah591 · Answer

Guys are built to spread their genes from woman to woman. That's how nature and testosterone works. This urge to procreate is too strong which leads guys to go elsewhere. Women require love and affection and if they don't get that, then they may cheat but guys can give this love and affection AS WELL as cheating. I don't know any girl who has cheated on her partner, it's always the guys.

Anonymous · Answer

I think men want to have sex with women more, but that's outside of a relationship. Once a man bonds with a woman long term, he is comfortable that way.

I think women will cheat because they don't appreciate the relationships they form and like the idea of jumping from one to the next instead of working to strengthen the ones they are already on. My mom cheated on my dad and my ex cheated on me several times. Women don't take relationships seriously and will hop from one to the other until they are too old to do so.

DodgersGM · Answer

It seems likely that men would cheat more, and unfortunately the evidence seems to back that up.  Why someone would do that, I'll just never for the life of me understand.

Keyspirits · Answer

I think men cheats more in relationship due to the fact of wanting to experience many holes. Men has always wanted all the ladies for himself so i doubt the wanna be playas are everywhere.

Crazycanuck · Answer

The studies I heard of say that women are more likely to cheat not they cheat more the actual cheating its about 50/50. and the reasons very from person to person. Still cheating is cheating and its still wrong no matter who you are

DutchAtheist · Answer

Let me tell you this.
The head of the penis has evolved to be a "semen scraper". Men that had penises more able to dig out the predecessors sperm were more likely to have offspring thus we evolved to have these bell like glanses.

Obviously, you don't get to scrape out any competitor semen if the girl is faithful to you.

On a more personal note... Never cheated... Got cheated on... Twice.

AriesKurisu · Answer

Women. I have known so many girls that cheated on their boyfriends and none of the guys I knew ever cheated. Women are just better at getting away with it which is sad :/

Anonymous · Answer

Judging by the message I received this morning from the girl I've been dating lately, I'd probably be a bit biased in my answer. It's not like this means all women are cheaters though, but neither are all men.

Women probably are more prone to cheat though, I think.

UberTroll · Answer

From what I've seen women cheat slightly more often than men but they're better at hiding it. It's still not far off from a 50/50 split though.

Rail2k · Answer

Despite what the popular opinion says, it's true that data shows that women cheat more than men -- and not by just a little bit. It is strange how men usually get labelled as cheaters when in fact women have a higher chance of doing it.

Summeroflove · Answer

It’s really about the same. People are too cowardly and selfish to leave relationships especially if they still in some way benefit them. People have low self control when it comes to lust especially consuming hours of porn a day including women.

People aren’t happy in long term stable relationships. They are used to variety. They like feeling free and desired. And…. Cheating for lust and pleasure. They don’t want to work on relationships and solve problems.

NoblesseOblige · Answer

Guys, you're all forgetting the most important thing.  Nobody here on this site is a hot social person.  Therefore, every one of them is likely to have cheating partners.

lamebabe · Answer

I think it's true. Like some others said, women have many more opportunities to cheat. And like any male cheater, women can get bored or feel vengeful and seek excitement/scandal or variety.

THChowder · Answer

Women cheat more because more men are more willing to have sex with them than vice versa.  For most men, it takes more effort for them to get a woman.

emzy-89 · Answer

I don't think anyone will ever be able to figure out because it's ot something that pople readily admit to.

sammy_31 · Answer

People cheat numbers might say one thing but both genders cheat so, that sucks.

Myownhero · Answer

Woman cheat because they are insecure, i know when i got rejected all i wanted to do was call my ex who has a gf and have sex with him...but i came to my senses and didn't cause i know i deserve better.

bubbletrouble · Answer

I don't have a clue. I have never cheated.  I do believe that women are more enticed to cheat, definitely. We get hit way more than men could ever.  But I also believe that men want to cheat more.

26ukdude · Answer

Im not sure, if I had to pick one I think it would probably be men.

lovemxo · Answer

I was heavily cheated on in my last relationship, but I was faithful to him the whole time. From my personal experience, men cheat more. :p He cheated constantly, and I never cheated once.

Anonymous · Answer

Which studies? For every study that says one thing, there's going to be another study that says the opposite. Post links please

Spikeroy · Answer

yeah I saw that study too. it was on Steve Harvey a few days ago apparently a lot of women who do cheat have been cheated on in the past.and they feel like if they cheat they getting empowered

AngelLily · Answer

Studies don’t actually say women cheat more they say the gap has gotten smaller because women stopped staying in miserable relationships just to protect someone’s ego. Men still cheat slightly more on average. But obsessing over who cheats ‘more’ just sounds like deflection from self-awareness. The real difference isn’t gender it’s maturity.

Anonymous · Answer

In my personal experience I have known of a lot more women than men who have cheated.

Regardless, I think the perception is that when there is any poor sexually related behavior the finger is most often pointed at men. In general, in our society men are seen and the perpetrators and women as the victims, which is unfair and not an accurate reflection of the facts

cajun · Answer

Who conducted the studies.. hmm.. MEN, maybe some divorcees,..  and they are taking revenge on all women  for their nuptial crisis

Anonymous · Answer

My Dad said that women cheat more because they have nothing to do while we are at work making money for them to buy stuff with.

jacquesvol · Answer

Are women better at hiding it or  are men better at ignoring it?

douride2 · Answer

You can make a study or survey say what ever you want it to.

Anonymous · Answer

How Bout Just NO ONE Cheats? is that too hard for eeveryone?

TedStar · Answer

" Thes hoes ain't loyal"- Chris Brown (modern philosopher) I had to :p

Anonymous · Answer

I would say women cheat more. The average woman has more opportunities to cheat, than the average male. The ease of it would easily put women over the top.

Anonymous · Answer

Just last Saturday I slept with my guy friend who has a girlfriend.

CellLuddite · Answer

I read somewhere that a slightly higher percentage of men cheat than women do. Like around ten percent. But they were both around 50%.

Cutie_Baby · Answer

If a women truly loves her man, she won't cheat. If she doesn't she will.

LowRiderrr · Answer

Hell yeah. Ugly guys go for any girl and any girl goes for any guy.

Mamasan01 · Answer

Men 10% too many men go to sex workers, women don't.

nickstaa · Answer

I think women cheat more than men. A lot of females seem to have the attitude that only males can do wrong.

Brady · Answer

I voted men.  According to the program Cheaters where P.I.'s follow cheaters, 44% of men        cheat n 25% of women do.  The Diary of an Affair says 60 percent of men do and 40 percent of women do.

Anonymous · Answer

I've never cheated unless conversation counts lol but yea guys get played a lot!! Usually girls are real convincing in the love they have for you so you wouldn't suspect anything

PhiOmega · Answer

I can't say anything for the facts, but personally I know many more men that have been cheated on

princesswitch · Answer

The results here are hilarious lmao

ThatBritishLad · Answer

I'd say women mainly because in general they aren't stereotyped around cheating, so they can get away with it easier.

Quaalude · Answer

Women. Most women won't admit to it, they don't like airing their shame. They wouldn't be honest about it. I am a female and I know this in the deepest pits of my soul

biggie90 · Answer

Women cheat more and their better at hiding it.

crowstew · Answer

3rd vote should be Men & Women. :)

Drummer4Lyfe · Answer

Hoes will be hoes nomsayin

Anonymous · Answer

Maybe in where you're at ,

legalboxers · Answer

isn't it equal somewhere?

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