Cheaters Unite! Infidelity Social Networks are Making an Art and a Business Out of Cheating

Used to be that cheating carried with it a social stigma.  If you look back at the last thousand or so years of our history, you’ll find stories of people being stoned, ostracized by society and even put to trial and subsequent public humiliation because they were unfaithful.  These days, however, some cheaters can actually strut in the streets and even talk about their affairs openly.  There are even some whose behavior is being encouraged on books, film and even social networks online encouraging infidelity.

Enjoy your life. Cheat?
According to some statistics, about 50% of women are unfaithful to their husbands at least once in their lives.  With men, the figure is at 70%. Although most people still view the act of cheating as a sneaky affair that’s best kept hidden, people are flaunting it, or are at least promoting the concept of infidelity.

Case in point: the rising number of websites that cater to married people who are cheating, want to cheat or are thinking of cheating.  Perform a simple search online and you’ll find forums, discussion boards, even dating sites for ’swinging couples’, ‘married or looking’ and ‘married and flirting’.  So what’s the problem here?

Writer Randy Hicks wrote a commentary about infidelity social networks and websites on WebPal.com.  However, instead of attacking the concept of allowing cheaters to meet fellow cheaters, Hicks told the story of a woman who knew firsthand what infidelity is and what it did to her, her family and her life.

In her piece, the woman wrote about how infidelity wrecked her marriage and family and made her lose a sense of her own self.  She regretted the fact that she had exchanged a temporary thing for what she later realized was the important part of her life – her family.

Infidelity made easy
Infidelity social networks are multiplying, thanks in part to the ’success’ of sites such as Meet2Cheat.com and AshleyMadison.com.  The fact that communicating through the internet is fast and easy also helps encourage people to join these social networks. 

Not only that, other venues frequently used online are fast becoming the means with which people commit infidelity.  Chat rooms and instant messaging are just two of these examples.

Infidelity and the freedom of choice
If you look at the very basic thing about these websites which are encouraging extramarital affairs, you’ll probably find that they really are based on the premise that ‘it’s a free country and I’m free to choose whether or not I cheat’.  Unfortunately, it also questions the very basic foundation upon which we have built our society – pure, simple decency.

So what does the future hold for infidelity social networks?  By the looks of it, as long as people find a reason to cheat, these sites will continue to thrive.  Until someone finds a way to legally shut them down or cheaters finally wake up, there is no way infidelity social networks will be stopped.