CNN: Women are more faithful than men, and other myths on female infidelity

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Women are more faithful than men. Women cheat for love; men cheat for sex. Women are less sexually adventurous than men. It's a script that many of us -- whether clinicians or Hollywood -- follow when thinking about female sexuality. Yet it's a script based on unfounded assumptions about the way women view, pursue and engage in sex,

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Myth: Women cheat for 'emotional' reasons.

Indeed, studies have shown that more than a third of married women who have sex outside their relationships describe those marriages as "happy" or "very happy."

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Myth: Women have affairs, not one-night stands, when they cheat

Men have 'infidelity gray zones,' tensional outlets -- like lap dances at strip clubs and 'happy-ending' massages -- that make it easy for them to have sexual experiences outside their marriage or long-term partnership that may not be considered cheating," Martin explained. "Since studies suggest women need variety and novelty in their sexual experiences at least as much as men do, it's a shame we don't have such gray zones."

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Myth: Monogamy is easier for women.


Mark and I conducted on sexual adventurousness, we found that women were significantly more likely than men to have engaged in a wider variety of sexual activities, indicating that women are perhaps more sexually open than society often constructs them to be. For example, women were significantly more likely to have engaged in talking dirty during sex than men, as well as sharing fantasies verbally.

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