Some interesting stats

Posted by mpl (726 days ago)

Guys

Friend of mine sent this through on an email. Thought I would post for comment given the thread subjects recently. Hard to know how much stock to put in it given I have no idea about the process used to gather the stats - but still interesting to read nonetheless.


22 percent of married men have strayed at least once during their married lives.

14 percent of married women have had affairs at least once during their married lives.

Younger people are more likely candidates; in fact, younger women are as likely as younger men to be unfaithful.

70 percent of married women and 54 percent of married men did not know of their spouses' extramarital activity.

22 percent of men and 14 percent of women admitted to having sexual relations outside their marriage sometime in their past.

Source: Associated Press



-One in 10 respondents said they are addicted to sex and the Internet, according to an online survey of 38,000 Internet users.
MSNBC.com and Dr. Alvin Cooper

-Up to 37% of men and 22% of women admit to having affairs. Researchers think the vast majority of the millions of people who visit chat rooms, have multiple "special friends”.
Dr. Bob Lanier, askbob.com

-Only 46% of men believe that online affairs are adultery.
DivorceMag

-80% think it's Ok to talk with a stranger identified as the opposite sex. 75% thinks it's ok to visit an adult site.

- About 60 percent of men and 40 percent of women will have an affair at some point in some marriage
"Monogamy Myth", Therapist Peggy Vaugn

Affairs affect one of every 2.7 couples, according to counselor Janis Abrahms Spring, author of "After the Affair," as reported by the Washington Post on March 30, 1999. Ten percent of extramarital affairs last one day, 10 percent last more than one day but less than a month, 50 percent last more than a month but less than a year, but 40 percent last two or more years. Few extramarital affairs last more than four years.

A lesser known fact is that those who divorce rarely marry the person with whom they are having the affair. For example, Dr. Jan Halper’s study of successful men (executives, entrepreneurs, professionals) found that very few men who have affairs divorce their wife and marry their lovers. Only 3 percent of the 4,100 successful men surveyed eventually married their lovers.

Frank Pittman has found that the divorce rate among those who married their lovers was 75 percent. The reasons for the high divorce rate include: intervention of reality, guilt, expectations, a general distrust of marriage, and a distrust of the affairee.

57% of people have used the Internet to flirt.

38% of people have engaged in explicit online sexual conversation and 50% of people have made phone contact with someone they chatted with online.

Evidence proves there is a high correlation between on-line infidelity and subsequent real-time sexual affairs.

Evidence supports the existence of disinhibition, accelerated intimacy, and hyper-sexual online behavior that can easily lead to real-time infidelity

31% of people have had an online conversation that has led to real-time sex.

-It is estimated that 53% of all people will have one or more affairs during their lifetime.

Look at the numbers from a recent issue of Playboy Magazine:

-2 out of 3 women and 3 out of 4 men admit they have sexual thoughts about co-workers.

-86% of men and 81% of women admit they routinely flirt with the opposite sex.

-75% of men and 65% of women admit to having sex with people they work with.

Experts say that a gut instinct is the most powerful indicator of a cheating lover. Adultery statistics state that 85% of woman who feel their lover is cheating are correct. 50% of men who feel their lover is cheating are right. The first clue is seldom obvious. Typically, it's a "feeling" that something is different.

Cheating spouse statistics confirm that 50 and 70 percent of married men (between 38 and 53 million men) have cheated or will cheat on their wives. One study found that 2/3 of the wives (26 to 36 million women) whose husbands were cheating had no idea their husbands were having an affair - largely because they failed to recognize the telltale signs.

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Posted by itchyfeet2006 (726 days ago)

Stat. from WIDER says that net worth per capita in HK is US$ 202000 which is about 1.5 million HK dollars. But i see many more poor people than millionairs here. Well, it can be because of my own social class. Although all sorts of stat. shows that fedility rate is high, I still see more faithful people than cheating ones.

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Posted by Tiger01 (725 days ago)

this one is unclear:

"31% of people have had an online conversation that has led to real-time sex."

real-time sex?!?
What is that?

Is it a IT nerdy way of saying "actual face-to-face" like in real life; or
does it mean "same time (maybe) but only connected by an internet cable"?

(I am based in Hong Kong)

Posted by onefreespirit (725 days ago)

ha ha ha very good tiger, call me easily pleased but your post made me laugh, what a great word "nerdy" is!! but its true some people can only communicate via a internet cable!

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Posted by onefreespirit (725 days ago)

ha ha ha very good tiger, call me easily pleased but your post made me laugh, what a great word "nerdy" is!! but its true some people can only communicate via an internet cable!

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Posted by Robbie2007 (407 days ago)

It will be interesting to compare divorce statistics in America vs. those in Asia. I believe divorce is still much higher in America. That is one thing that I really dislike and detest about American culture - the high divorce rates. Back when I was in elementary school, half of my classmates had divorced parents.

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Posted by jwm (407 days ago)

I come from a divorced family and quite frankly I would rather have divorced partents who were happy than partents that were together and misrable...

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Posted by Strawberry_Shortcake (407 days ago)

in america cheating is a big taboo but in asia people are much 'honest' with having 2,3,4 women on the side and these women also call and threaten the wives!!!

(I am based in Hong Kong)

Posted by Jalous Uranus (407 days ago)

Is it better to have divorced parents as is common in the US, or parents who are together but the one parent having one or more mistresses, as is common in these parts of Asia?

(I am based in Hong Kong)

Posted by candice billove (407 days ago)

jalous - i think a divorce is better. it's true what they say: three's a crowd. there will always be bitterness and hurt when more than 2 ppl are involved in a relationship.

i think the cheating stats would be much higher in asian countries... just because it's apparently more 'acceptable'. i personally think it's disgusting how some asian men still think it's their right to look for mistresses, but if it was the woman looking then she's condemned to hell.

marriage is getting harder because people are living longer...i read on the news about the german politician's proposal for a 7-year marriage contract. i think it's a great idea

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article2500361.ece

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Posted by jwm (407 days ago)

No real need to even get married, if two people are truely committed, then why bother

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