Straight Guys Have No Problem With Your Cheating, So Long As It's With A Girl
LatestA study purportedly shows that straight men are more likely to forgive a girlfriend’s cheating if she does it with another woman. What’s behind the idea that girl-on-girl cheating somehow isn’t “real”?
First, let’s take a look at the study itself. According to The Globe and Mail, it didn’t examine actual infidelity. Rather, study authors asked college students to imagine that their partners had cheated. 50% of guys said they’d be willing to stay with a girlfriend who cheated with a woman, but only 22% said the same about hypothetical infidelity with a man. By contrast, 28% of women said they’d stay if their boyfriend slept with another woman, but only 21% would stick around if he did so with a dude. The obvious limits of these hypothetical scenarios aside (who knows what the students would do if faced with these situations in real life?), the study authors trot out the usual evo-psych explanations: guys only care about affairs that “threaten paternity,” while ladies are more worried about their male providers running off with other dudes.