Fall in love in 2012? More like fall out of love and screw other people. Today is the worst day of the year for cheating, according to experts. Illicit Encounters, the “UK’s largest dating website for married people,” welcomes an astonishing 450 members each day, but yesterday, 994 people signed up. Quite the dramatic spike. ...
Dear Madame X, My girlfriend kissed one of her colleagues at the office Christmas party. She says it was because she had been drinking, and that it will never happen again. I suspect the guy she kissed is really interested in her and was waiting for a good time to make his move. He ...
Is monogamy natural for humans, or are we actually predisposed to a life of promiscuity? In answering either of those questions many would look to human biological norms to find an answer. But after thousands of years spent developing complex societies and civilizations how much of our behaviour is based on what is so-called “normal” ...
Remember Sandra Bullock’s ex husband Jesse James? Picture a tattoo artist with a touch of trailer park for colour? Well after Sandra dumped him for cheating he has been shacking up with his top mistress Kat Von D. But not only her. Miss Von D announced that she had encountered the 19th girl who James had ...
Dear Madame X, This is a question about cheating. I went out to a party and my boyfriend stayed home to finish working on a first week assignment for school. I had a great time and I told him all about it when I saw him the next day, including that I had kissed a ...
Our editor, back from her lost weekend cruising the loucher bars of festival Edinburgh, recently brought an article to my attention. It took the rather unusual stance (at least for a feminist author) that men, finding themselves, as they generally do, in severely straitened sexual circumstances following marriage, are to be admired on a daily ...
When it comes to love, there are various reasons for wanting to throw in the towel. Although we see sensational celebrity breakups splashed all over gossip magazines and it seems like we all have a friend who has been cheated on, the UK’s 2011 matrimonial survey tells us that infidelity is not the number one ...
Dear Madame X, My husband earns a lot of money and supports me and my children really comfortably. He has always been very loving and supportive of our family. However, he has begun to hint that he should be able to sleep with other women, since he is providing so well for us. I think ...
Dear Madame X, I’m happier than I’ve ever been. I have a lover I see whenever I want and a career that fulfills me. Everything is going along perfectly but it doesn’t feel like enough. I refuse to cheat, but lately the idea has developed some appeal. I want to bring another man into the ...
Why do men cheat? Why do women cheat? Apparently, science has given us the answer. Anyone can have an affair; we know that. But we still don’t always know why. We’ve looked at demographics to get a better “cheater profile” but when it comes to infidelity, they are secondary explanations. A person’s character and the ...
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Dear Madame X, I know you say that it’s not good to fake your orgasms, but what if you...
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My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
