Percentages
Approximately 50 percent married women and 60 percent of married men will have an extramarital affair at some time in their marriage.
A University of California study in 1998 reported that 24 percent of men and 14 percent of women had had sex outside their marriages. In only 10 years, those numbers have more than doubled.
According to Divorce magazine, only 46 percent of men believe that online affairs are adultery and 75 percent of married people believe it's okay to visit an adult site online.
Other things that people considered cheating
- 38 percent of people have engaged in explicit online sexual conversation.
- 50 percent of people have talked on the phone with someone they first chatted with online.
- 31 percent of people have had an online conversation that has led to in-person sex.