Do Men need to Cheat?

Eric Anderson's new book, The Monogamy Gap: Men, Love, and the Reality of Cheating, claims that cheating is good for men.

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Cheating, however, serves men pretty well. An undiscovered affair allows them to keep their relationship and emotional intimacy, and even if they're busted it's a lot easier than admitting that they wanted to screw someone else in the first place, he writes.


In his study of 120 undergraduate men, 78 percent of those who had a partner cheated, "even though they said that they loved and intended to stay with their partner." Contrary to what we may think, most men aren't cheating because they don't love their partner, he says; they cheat because they just want to have sex with others. And society shouldn't pooh-pooh that.

Interesting stuff. Please check out the rest of the article and I would love to hear your thoughts. I don't know if men need to cheat.