letter in response to a column about adultery that stated, a woman felt anger toward her unfaithful husband, but understood he was acting naturally. A man reported that during his 28 year marriage, his wife had other sexual partners and it would have been unreasonable to object; he stated that people should seek the kind of harmless pleasure that sex should be (French 26).
Adler refers to an example of a man who sued his wife for divorce due to her racy computer messages to a man she had never met, calling her actions adultery. For an Atlanta psychiatrist, Dr. Frank Pittman, author of a book on infidelity, affairs are not as sexual as imagined and infidelity has more to do with whom you lie to than whom you lie with. This view is different from the earlier belief that infidelity is mainly about sex. A 1974 National Opinion Research Center survey of attitudes toward extramarital sex revealed the belief that adultery was always wrong
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