Infidelity

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What is the truth about infidelity?


When two people who love each other decide to take a sacred vow “till death

do us part”, a part of the commitment involves being loyal and faithful in every way.

In a society such as ours, where the divorce rate is sky high, infidelity plays a major

role and of great concern to all those who are presently married, or those who are

someday hoping to be. In a perfect world, when one person finds his or her other half,

then falls in love and gets married, the two people really represent one “whole”

person. The thought of another person breaking up the “two halves that make a

whole” is not even an issue. Think again, this world is not a great place, and often

enough the most important person in ones life finds some reason to be unfaithful.

Infidelity is a kind of thing that could leave a scar for all eternity.

This research paper will focus on the topic of infidelity(1). The questions

being researched are the following: to whom does it occur to; who exactly is being

unfaithful; and why does it happen so often.

The first conclusive study on the subject was that of a sex researcher Alfred

Kinsley, who in 1953, found that fifty percent of husbands cheated and twenty six

percent of wives cheated by the age of forty (Norment, 148). I guess that’s how life



(1) For the purpose of this paper, infidelity will be defined as the unfaithfulness of wedding vows. More specifically, infidelity refers to one partner hiding the fact that he/she is not monogamous.





used to be in 1950’s, therefore throughout the years people drew up a conclusion that

men are the primary cheaters. Our society has always had a stereotypical view about

men and infidelity. These days, according to sex researchers, woman under the age of

forty are just as likely to commit adultery as men, who ar...