Last but not least: Cheating as a last resort
Cheating isn't a nice thing to do. Not to mention dating sites like AshleyMadison.com, which encourage adultery. Or so we thought until now. As of today, we know better.
A global survey of 123,000 cheaters, all active members of the infamous website Ashleymadison.com, in fact, found that 88 percent of men and 91 percent of women say the reason they had an affair was to save their marriage. The study goes on to examine what other ways out unhappily married people first try before deciding to have a fling with Ashleymadison.com: 78 percent of participants have previously sought at least one alternative, such as spicing up their sex life, going to couples therapy or - extremely promising - seeing a divorce lawyer. 61 percent have even tried three or more of these options before embarking on an extramarital adventure.
So it's a great thing, the professional mediation of people who want to cheat. Unfortunately, the study did not investigate how many marriages were actually saved by cheating and how many finally broke down.
And if you want to know exactly what men and women have already tried out eherettung before signing up on Ashleymadison.com, you can take a look at the following table.
