No one would make the case that women never cheat . . . but the case that they cheat more than men is just straight up gender creationism To start, this person is quoting a study with a sample size of 3 couples? I hope that's a typo lol Regardless of any typos, though, I've heard the claim "women cheat more or equivalent to men" more than once and it needs to stop because it's not true and flies in the face of everything we know about evolutionary biology First of all, to break this down fairly, you have to define cheating, and define patterns of behavior According to a landmark 1992 study led by evolutionary psychologist David Buss at the University of Texas at Austin, men and women process betrayal through entirely different lenses When surveyed, 60% of men reported that a partner's physical/sexual infidelity was more distressing, whereas 83% of women stated that emotional infidelity was the true dealbreaker Divorce attorney James Sexton - who I don't always agree with, but does have some valuable insights on the topic of what leads to marital breakdown - perfectly describes this phoenomenon by pointing to reality shows where spouses catch each other cheating, but the question the person being cheated on asks differs depending on their sex. The men ask "Did you fuck him?" While the women ask "Do you love her?" Men are historically driven by paternity certainty (the fear of raising another man's genetic child), while women are driven by resource and emotional retention (the fear of a partner abandoning the family unit). Equating a transactional, physical encounter with a deep emotional replacement is an intentional misreading of human psychology The demographic data also completely shatters the idea that women step out at the same rate or in the same way as men do According to decades of data from the General Social Survey (GSS) analyzed by the Institute for Family Studies, married men consistently cheat at higher rates than married women across almost every age bracket (20% of married men vs. 13% of married women) Furthermore, research shows men are far more likely to be serial repeat offenders across their lifetimes. Men are also exponentially more likely to seek out sex workers or opportunistic casual encounters - a pattern of behavior that carries a drastically higher statistical risk of contracting and transmitting STDs back to their wives Internet misogynists love to invoke paternity fraud to argue that women are uniquely deceitful, yet empirical science tells a completely different story: A comprehensive 2008 meta-analysis published in Trends in Genetics evaluated non-paternity studies across Western populations and found that actual, hidden paternity fraud sits at a remarkably low 2.1% to 3.1%. Meanwhile, men abandoning parental obligations, fathering unwanted children outside of primary marriages, or spreading STDs remains statistically far more prevalent In fact, federal demographic data shows that men fathering children outside of their marriage is dramatically more common than paternity fraud According to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (National Survey of Family Growth) analyzing national fertility patterns, approximately 7.8% of fathers who started with a marital birth went on to father additional biological children outside of marriage, either while still married or after stepping out. Overall, roughly 24.3% of all American fathers have a mixed fertility pattern, meaning they have fathered children both inside and outside of wedlock across their lifetimes So while internet red-pillers spin sensationalized horror stories about a 2% non-paternity rate, men actively fathering extra-marital children is literally three to eight times higher by the numbers