ationships in newspaper classified ads (116). Ebony states that the new communication devices - cell-phones, email, voice mail, and pagers - make it much easier for males to carry on a relationship outside their marriage without their wives finding out (118).
More women are encountered in the workplace, and the chances of an extramarital relationship springing up at work are much more likely (119). But despite these changes, researchers say that men cheat for the same old reasons - because they want to because they lack the impulse control to say no, reports Ebony. Unlike women, who mostly daydream about extramarital affairs, men cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, and to a man, to deny himself an affair is to deny himself a guarantee of pleasure. This doesnÆt mean that all men cheat, but there are many reasons for those that do: an ego trip for men looking for reassurance of their manhood; the need to conquer as many women as possible; the intoxicating effect of an affair; the adrenalin rush at the thought of the danger
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