Why Do Men Cheat?
Sarah Symonds became notorious years ago for being what many dubbed a "Professional Mistress," and in her time spent with married men, she believes she has acquired knowledge as to why men cheat on their wives.
"Most men stray because there's something wrong at home; there's something lacking," Sarah says. "And it may not be sex, they're starved of emotion."
Simone Bienne, however, disagrees. During her many years as a Psychosexual and Relationship Therapist, she says she, too, has talked with many men who have cheated, and she views their infidelity in a different way.
"Men may come to see a prostitute to pay for sex to dress it up, because they don't want to see and realize and admit to themselves that what they're doing is an incredibly sordid thing to do," Simone says.
Things get heated as these opposing sides defend their views. Take a look…
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I find it interesting that there were no "biblical references" surrounding adultery on this show. The classic story is the women brought to Jesus in the temple by men who said they caught her in the "act". In those days (of course the patriarcal society said it was alright for men to do it) the fine was "stoning to death". Well, as the old story goes, jesus asked everyone in the room that had no sins themselves, to come forward and cast the first stone. Everyone left and jesus said to the women, something along the lines of, " Only God can judge and therefore get going and promise not to do it again". Well all the women on the show were just regular "B#4%5ches" who couldn't tell there own ass from a hole in the wall, so therefore they all walk around thinking their opionions are right! They are all wrong. The hookers, mistresses, cheating husbands, cheating wives, etc., etc. All the professional ladies on stage im sure have had sinful sex and other nasty things again, and again. They should have the cheaters come on stage and tell why they did it. For every person there is a DIFFERNT story. My 60 year old tired, with erectile dysfunction and hight blood pressure, smoking, etc. went out to , as he said" see if it still works". According to him he was and still is EXTREMELY happy with me and his life. ! Right, i've been through a couple of marriages, a couple of children, a couple of relationships and it all boils down to one thing! FEAR
Anderson, please try to get your producers to come up with more interesting topical subjects for your audience. This Old tired subject is going no where fast.
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Is it just me? What is up with Bethany St. James' creapy eyebrows?
No one responded to my comment at all, perhaps it was truthfull to the point that none wanted to risk more irrational outbursts.
It was mentioned on the show that most women prostitute themselves in one way or another-----no one disagreed. I don't like doing business with prostitutes because it is a very eggagerated version of what takes place in real life. Most women want to establish gain in a relationship or the potential of it. This is often financial gain. Think about it. Would your spouse/girfriend be with you if she didn't have the idea of financial gain at least initially? There are many examples of this. A recent girlfriend of mine ended a 2 year relationship with someone she was deeply in love with because he became unemployed for over a year. Would you look on this differently if the woman had been unemployed? By the way, she didn't have sex with me because she felt I wasn't in love with her.
I have dated many women who would not have sex with me, yet I see a lot of cheating men who get all the sex they want.
I am trying to figure this out, but in the meantime, in light of all this rejection, I can easily see why a man would cheat. When you get rejected and used by women for gain for years why not???
when I woman get called names such as dead fish frigid told they don't turn on their husbands and also told that I can go to town and get sex anytime and even told I don't like you. This harms any chance of the woman feeling sexual at all. Bully a wife into sex and then complaining she didn't like it so why bother and then carrying online with submissives or anyone that will give him sex online is not proper. The wife gets blamed when in fact it is not her fault she has young children at home she becomes exhausted and supposed to be receptive and a sextoy at home. As they get older she has diabeties that causes the desire to go all to hell. But still she goes to the doctor to ask why she no longer wants sex. The man calls her his submissive and the wife is a wife. I think the real reason she no longer wants sex is because of the verbal abuse she has be handed for the last 20 years and I am not the only one there are many women out there in older relationships that have been called names because we are not always receptive. Also what about those wives that may have been raped at some point in their lives. Don't always blame the woman men look deep into yourselves and ask why am I not compassionate. Thank you for your time and please keep me annonymous as we are still married but he plays online and on phone because lines of communication don't work well when I became deaf.
Men cheat...because they CAN! Other partners can be 'available' at work or after hours. The thrill boosts men's egos. It gives them satisfaction that they may not be getting at home, but only because they are the ones 'emotionally' unattached. They are looking for something EXCITING in a world that may be a daily doldrum. Too bad they didn't consider that BEFORE they got married and ruined not only their wife's life, but that of their entire family.
So many shows on why men cheat, well statistics show that just as many if not more women cheat.
Men and women have no differences except for one.
Men get caught and usually deal with it.
Women cheat and take it to their grave ;)
ive been the other women for the past 2 years, and i still kinda am. it really hurts though because it doesnt matter how smart you are you cant help who you catch feelings for. it hurts really bad and being called the "mistress" is very self degrading and sometimes is hard to discuss.
Is it me or do the panels not seem objective? Shouldn't there at least be a woman that has had a man cheat with a woman that wasn't a prostitute? And of course Anderson could not find a man to come on the show...odd that Dr. Phil and Oprah usually can. The men know they are married odd that the women are being blames to take responsibility for a man's actions...as always. Sounds like the Scarlett Letter all over again. Welcome to 2012 ladies and Gentlemen, Anderson.
Cheaters are lacking in integrity.
They don't value committment, honest or trust.
The biggest puzzle is why they marry. Why not just stay single?
I just can't believe that you had 5 "women" talking about why "men" cheat.
What would you think if we had 5 "men" telling you why "women" cheat.
You can not understand how another of the species is thinking at any given moment.
I do believe that men are predestined to pro-create but we have evolved and have a bigger brain then the caveman to just say NO. In closing, for every man I know that has cheated they were with a woman and all of those were not single
I've seen men cheat on their wives - and the wives did absolutely nothing at all wrong. This was many years ago when I was young. Married men used to hit on me all the time and it would aggravate me.....I'm thinking yeah right - so you can cheat on me next?! No thank you. On the other hand, I do understand that it is very difficult to keep intimacy in a marriage strong. It's work for both man and wife. A lot of give and take, ups and downs, I've found that it is a learning process. That's just my thoughts - but what do I know.