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Article: Sexual revolution casualties.(Commentary)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 30, 1999
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I have always been puzzled by poll results that report twice as many men have affairs as women. Something is wrong here - or some women are working overtime.
One answer to the puzzle is that a woman, even in our sexually liberated time, is more loath than a man to admit to a stranger that she is unfaithful. Another is that the deficit on the female side of the poll is filled by single women's affairs with married men.
The latter answer is not reassuring. According to other polls, single women are connecting up at high frequencies with single men. Yet, they still find time to partner half of the straying married men.
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