I love Tuesdays' Science Times.
I love academic/scholarly discussions about sex.
I enjoyed this quote: "“Is it that men are bragging about it and women are lying to everybody including themselves?” Dr. Fisher asked. “Men want to think women don’t cheat, and women want men to think they don’t cheat, and therefore the sexes have been playing a little psychological game with each other.”"
Not exactly a high brow scholarly discussion of sex, but an interesting read. The article notes we may be cheating more- whether physically or emotionally- because of the facility with which we can "communicate" today. It's funny- cell phones and email and chat supposedly inhibit sincere connections and relationships yet facilitate something like cheating, which can often be categorized as simply reaching out to forge a superficial relationship, often devoid of real emotion but nonetheless providing an intimate connection. The relationship between technology, communications/relations, and infidelity is indeed dynamic.
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Nice article.
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me, I was once listening to some sort of radio discussion or something, and some feminism expert actually cited increasing female infidelity as a good thing.
I can see how it's correlated with good things, like not being stuck in the 1950s-housewife model, but good unto itself I had more difficulty with.