Women are better liars?

Think men are the unfaithful sex? A study shows WOMEN are the biggest cheats - they're just better at lying about it | Daily Mail Online

Old article, but makes me curious...

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But while women's lives and sexual behaviour might have changed, their willingness to be honest about it hasn't. The truth is that we have always lied about our sex lives. British men consistently claim to have had more partners than women - the current average is 13, while women claim to have had only nine. Plainly, someone is lying here. While men might exaggerate their sexual conquests, the bigger liars are women. Why do women lie? Because we must, and because we can. In spite of apparent equality and a more sexually open society, we are still more harshly judged for our sex lives than men.

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Women are taught to lie from childhood. Those simple, altruistic lies such as saying we've had a lovely time when we haven't, that someone looks nice when she doesn't, or that we're delighted with a gift we don't really like, are just some of the small ways that lying oils the wheels of our social lives, keeps the peace, and makes other people happy. ... Susan adds: 'We made each other laugh and our sex life was wonderful. But Brian was a permanent "man-child" - a great lover, but not the kind of man you'd marry. 'He was always overdrawn, always teetering on the edge of some crisis that he'd just laugh off. I never wanted to live with him.' The affair ended amicably after eight years, with her husband none the wiser. Cheating is never pretty, but lying about it doesn't necessarily make it worse. Often, our lies are meant to shield our partners and families from pain. We tell ourselves that if nobody knows, nobody gets hurt. Dr Holmes says: 'Often, women keep the secret because they're much more conscious of how much there is to lose, and to protect the other people involved. If she has children, she'll be especially careful that they aren't hurt in any way by the knowledge of what she's doing.'

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Historically, a man has put a higher value on the fidelity of his woman because he needs to be sure that any children she has are really his. This seems to produce a strange kind of emotional blindness in many men, once they've selected a partner to settle down with. 'Whenever we question men about fidelity,' says Dr Holmes, 'they will very often admit to their affairs. 'But if you then ask the same men if they think their wives or girlfriends have had affairs, too, they will be shocked at the very thought, or laugh and call it ridiculous.' In other words, men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat. No wonder we're better at secret affairs.

Makes me wonder really, as come to think of it I only trust very few women in my life, and even then it's always a case of "what I trust them to do" rather than "whether I trust them"... still I'm like that with EVERYONE so meh...

Ex-wife/Daughter, I trust however, ex-wife has earned it over many years. So I continue to hope that our daughter will grow up to understand the value of honesty.

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