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To be fair, statistics on this topic vary dramatically.
>Since Kinsey’s studies in the late 1940s, credible estimates of lifelong infidelity among heterosexual Americans have been widespread – 12 to 72 percent for men and 7 to 54 percent for women.
https://dailyprivateinvestigation.com/why-is-infidelity-so-frequent-2/
I remember hearing about 15% for women and 20-30% for men so I decided to look this up on google scholar to clarify.
Google scholar seems to have gotten even more annoying than when I last used it, so many studies are behind pay walls now, I can't even gleam anything form the abstract.
But anyway, here is what I did manage to find.
>Nowadays, infidelity is a most important reason of divorces. Based on research reports, 90% of all
divorces involve infidelity. The most consistent data on infidelity drives from the General Social Survey
which sponsored by the National Science Foundation to track the opinions of Americans about social
behaviors since 1972. The survey data shows that in any given year, about 10% of married couples (12%
men and 7% of women) have engaged in sex outside their marriage. But detailed analysis of the data from
1991 to 2006 shows surprising shifts. University of Washington researchers have found that the rate of
lifetime infidelity for men over 60 increased to 28% in 2006 from 20% in 1991. For women over 60, this rate
increased from 5% in 1991 to 15% in 2006 (Barker, 2011).
http://www.ipedr.com/vol19/34-ICAMS2011-A10054.pdf
>Infidelity occurs in approximately 25% of all marriages (Allen et al., 2005; Laumann et al., 1994). Infidelity is described in the literature as an emotional or sexual act that is outside of the primary relationship and constitutes a breach of trust or agreed upon boundaries of that relationship (Blow & Hartnett, 2005).
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/famp.12576
>Almost one-quarter of men (23.2%) and 19.2% of women indicated that they had “cheated” during their current relationship
>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-011-9771-z
The issue is based on how the study is done and who is doing it. If a dating website app thing did a survey based on it's own users then of course that would have a higher rate of infidelity than many other surveys would for example.
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