Uh , but that's a minority . If you , if you ask the question , why do most women have a , have an affair ? I think that's the mate switching notion .
Um But it suggests that they um uh forming a long term attachment to this other guy rather than the regular partner . So , here's , here's another one and this may seem like super , super obvious is that women who are unhappy with their regular relationship , either sexually unhappy or generally unhappy with their overall relationship , they're more likely to have affairs . Now .
Uh Men tend to have a higher sex drive uh in general on average . Uh And so they try to satisfy so even even men who are involved with or married to classically beautiful , beautiful women sometimes have affairs of people are very puzzled by this , but that desire for sexual variety is what drives most men in , into affairs . And so there's a dramatic sex difference in why men have affairs with , um , desire for sexual variety , pushing most men into it .
And the initial studies suggested , yes , they do . Um Initial studies suggested that when women have affairs , it tends to coincide with when they're ovulating and some other things like that . Um How do they gather this data ?
And those things aren't necessarily inconsistent if you ask , like who has affairs and what are their personality characteristics ? Hey , but affairs happen in all cultures or virtually all cultures unless the women are extremely cloistered as they are in some cultures where they're like , they cannot leave the home without a male bodyguard . Um But affairs happen in all cultures .
