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| Causes of Marital Infidelity for Men and Women |
By:
Angela smith |
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Who Has Affairs?
We tend to think that only bad people have extra marital affairs or only people in bad relationships. But no one is immune from having an affair.
Monogamy is something most people say they believe in and want for themselves. Every survey ever done on this question shows a high percentage of people think monogamy is important to marriage and that affairs are wrong. But a belief in monogamy as an ideal doesn't prevent large numbers of people from having extra marital affairs. Most people don't intend to have an affair and most people don't think it will happen to them—but it does.
Usually there are three different kinds of forces that are working together:
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o Forces within the individual that pull them toward affairs
o Forces within the individual that push them toward affairs
o Societal factors
Forces within the individual that pull them toward affairs:
* Desire to go for a Dating
* Looking for partners in Internet dating Sites.
* Love for Adultry
* Desire for having some adventure by facing an illicit encounter.
* Those who have No Strings attached to them love it.
* Those who is looking for enjoyment of adult fun
Societal factors
Affairs are glamorized in movies, soap operas, romance novels, and TV shows of all kinds. Public disclosure of public figures having affairs is headline news because we are fascinated and titillated by hearing of others' affairs.
People are bombarded with images of women as sex objects in advertising and marketing campaigns. Over and over, the message to men is that the good life includes a parade of sexy women in their lives. Women inadvertently buy into this image and strive to achieve it.
The lack of good sex education and the existence of sexual taboos combine to make it difficult for most partners to talk honestly about sex.
As teenagers we get conditioned in deception when it comes to sex—engaging in sexual activity while hiding it from our parents.
The code of secrecy is a major factor in affairs because it provides protection for the person having affairs and leads them to believe they won't get caugh t. |
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