
Radunagi
United States
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Kobiet.ka: I got the info from a very interesting book, "Lust in Translation: Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee" It is a very long an d pretty well-researched book about infidelity around the world. Also on how societies will develop exceptions to normally strict rules about infidelity, like, it's ok if you are on vacation/you pay/it's with a foreigner. YOu can read an excerpt here. ABD: In my experience, women can be just as "turned on" by a photo as anyone else, even if they have tremendous social pressure in some countries not to tell anyone about it. Women find some men handsome and some men ugly, they are not blind. While it is true that women have a different type of sex drive then men, usually, we aren't THAT different. If anyone wants to know more about it, this article seems good. And as a man, I have to say, it is a little insulting to me to say that men cannot control themselves if they see a women. I'm a human, I'm not an animal and I have self-control. I'm not going to cheat on my girlfriend just because I saw a photo of some woman online. Maybe I didn't understand you correctly. Nasim: I don't know what religion you are, but seeing your first sentence, and then seeing that you have a picture of yourself up online, was pretty funny _ While it is true that extreme social controls can indeed control what people do, I wouldn't say that they make people more moral. Adultery was not as common as it is today in 1967 China, yet it is hard to say that China was "better" in 1967. Secondly, if a society is more open, then people only get married when they freely choose to, rather than under pressure. They marry people they love rather than the people their family makes them marry. And if there is cheating in a more open society, then divorce is more likely. Divorce is more likely because there is less shame in a more open society to be divorced than in a poorer or more backwards society. In a country where a divorced woman is looked down on, she has more reason to stay with a cheating husband, to avoid shame. Finally, in a richer country, a woman is more likely to be educated and capable of working. She does not need to rely on her husband to live and get money, so she is more free to leave if he cheats. So I would disagree with your assertion that more open countries encourage cheating. It is not supported by research.
Divorce is very expensive in richer countries. Divorce because of cheating puts a bad image on the cheater. This is why richer countries tend to have lower rates of infidelity than poorer countries.
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