Doallmencheat

lives. We get sad that we're not enough for one man and spend the rest of our lives feeling a little bit inadequate.

Then, the light bulb flashes over our heads and we start to get a clear picture of the dating world. All men seem to be
cheaters at some point in their lives. We get sad that we're not enough for one man and spend the rest of our lives
feeling a little bit inadequate.

Just think what it would be like if we were conditioned from a young age to date like men.

I don't want to generalize, but many men appear to often date several women at once. In grade school, they're
friends laugh at them if they dig just one girl. Their fathers promote widespread dating and they feel pressure to act
like studs.

Animal experts have found that cheating is rampant in the animal kingdom. Is it just social conditioning that makes
women feel they need to be monogamous or is it in our nature to do so?

When Columbus conquered the Caribbean islands, his crew wrote about the subject in their journals. They noticed
that some of the Arawak Indian women would be with a man, bear his children and, if they were no longer interested,
they'd move on to another man. They noted there was no jealousy or fighting when it happened. Back then,
however, the entire village would help raise children.

The Victorian Era gave us a formal blueprint for romance and relationships. Men brought home the bacon, women
fought to find a man to take care of them.

Now, things are changing. Women work and the information age has revealed to women what men have been up
to all these years: indulging in affairs.

Infidelity studies vary on how many men cheat. Some say 45% to 50%. However, a 2001 study by the National
Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago used a scientific poll and appears to have more reliable
results. It found 22% of men admitted to being unfaithful at some point during their marriage. But wait...they also
found that 15% of married women had cheated on their husbands. So, who's to blame?

I think it's second nature to look at an attractive man. Many times us women have strong feelings for another man
when we know we're supposed to be faithful. Some argue men were equipped with a higher sex drive to help keep
the world populated. Who really knows?

Can we blame men that we're a beautiful gender? Must we gaze a jealous eye on every other woman who we think
may take our man away? Can we blame men for not being able to control their hormones? May be so. Or,
maybe we're all just animals!

-R. Challenger