The New York Times has a look at the “new landscape of infidelity” that I found interesting and thought I’d pass along.

Women, in particular younger women, are catching up to men in their rate of adultery. Or, maybe they’re just more likely to admit it, the researchers say.

I’ve written here in the past that I thought that adultery was like a lot of crimes we find familiar from murder mysteries and television shows: it takes motive, means and opportunity. Women have always, I believe, had the same motive and means for infidelity that men have; however, being at home with the kids all day every day sort of reduces the opportunity. However, since 1986 and the advent of the internet, and particularly since we’ve obtained “instant messaging” and cellphone texting and Match.com (much less “Big Penis dot com”, right, Nina?), the opportunities for stay at home moms and other women to stray have increased. Thus, the rates of (reported) female adultery rises.

From the very last sentence of the report comes this tidbit that sort of tickled my fancy:

And married men and women also appear to have the most active sex lives, reporting sex with their spouse 58 times a year, a little more than once a week.

“We’ve looked at that as good news,” Dr. Robinson said.

One final note: Ladies, if you really want to get laid, wear red!

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