Survey says women cheat as much as men in Japan, but not when married
It’s often regarded as axiomatic that adultery is common in Japan. Men have sex at their fingertips. Just take a trip to one of the countless “fuzoku” sex services available or go on a “compensated date.”
The ladies are catching up, though, if you believe that is the reason for the growth of Ashley Madison in Japan.
One Japanese survey, at least, suggests that adultery is really not as gender-biased as you might think. In fact, slightly more women admitted to cheating on their partner in the past.
The survey was conducted, somewhat bizarrely, by a hair-removal salon with coupes aged between 20 and 49 about infidelity.
Here is how one English-language blog summarized the results.
531 responses were collected, with 19.6% admitting to having cheated. The faithful/unfaithful ratio was pretty even between the sexes, with 19.2% of men saying they’d cheated in the past and only slightly more women, 20%, revealing the same.
However, this doesn’t tell the whole story, since there is a major difference in genders in terms of when they think it’s fine to cheat on a partner. Only a small number of the women did so after they had got married, while the men did not see this as an obstacle to satisfying their urges.
Among married respondents, 38.5% of men had had an extramarital affair, more than twice as many as the 18.1% figure for married women. The women, however, were more likely to cheat as long as they didn’t have a ring on their finger, as 21.7% had been playing around behind their boyfriend’s back, compared to 12.9% of the single men who’d cheated on their girlfriends.
The ages when men or women cheated also diverged, with single men in their twenties the most likely, though followed closely by married men in their forties.
The numbers were modest for married women in their twenties, but doubled with such women in their twenties and only slightly decreased for women in their forties. And then among unmarried women, it was a similar story for those in their twenties, yet the ratio was almost four times higher for unmarried women in their forties. The percentages for unmarried men also increased with age but not as extreme a jump.
So what’s the lesson to be taken from all this? If you’re lucky enough to be dating a Japanese lady in her forties, be prepared that she may still be playing the field!
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So many housewives here in Japan cheat…..It is outrageous (as well as total heaven for an amoral heathen like myself). Then again, so many guys here are pathetically lame in the sack.. So their fault if their wives need a good romp with somebody who can please them
Yea The Dude but tit appears to be a common thing everywhere, not only Japan.
Many wives are unsatisfied since many guys are pretty shit in bed
The pattern I’ve noticed is people who lack self-awareness cheat. People who are unwilling or unable to truly look inward tend to have unexpressed and unaddressed dissatisfaction. Over time, for relief, they fall in to seemingly more “romantic”, less complicated relationships. Often they even seem to justify their doing so by blaming their partner for not tending to their (unexpressed, or passive-aggressively expressed) dissatisfaction. People without self-awareness seem markedly less capable of real intimacy, and therefore, more vulnerable than others to extramarital affairs.My husband cheats on me at any point and constantly accuse me of cheating,all thanks to ”hackingloop6 @ g m a i l . c o m” for their investigative and hacking service that helped me gain access to all my husband’s phone activities remotely,though the saga was so painful,but i feel much better facing my fears.