This is Edwina Currie, the conservative politician who cheated on her husband with married future British Prime Minister John Major. Edwina wrote a piece for the Daily Mail this week on the latest poll on cheaters and how they get away with it...
So a new survey has come up with the surprise revelation that women are just as likely to be unfaithful as men.
Why didn't anyone realise this earlier?
Simply,
it seems, because we women are more wily. While men are likely to strut
around bragging about their conquests - indeed, even exaggerating the
scale of their extramarital infidelities - women, conversely, are apt
to keep mum about theirs.
Two thousand women were questioned in
a recent sex and relationship survey. One in six of them admitted to
having adulterous sex.
But here's the revelation: while females
almost invariably discover the truth when their spouses stray, women
are adept at keeping their own infidelities secret.
Currie also points out the already-infamous recent interview given by Dame Eileen Atkins in which the 70-something actress confessed that Colin Farrell had repeatedly propositioned her one night a few years back, in which Atkins said:
'Women are more successful at infidelity than men - they're better liars.'
Interestingly, it was Currie who broke the news of the affair, more than a decade after it ended, in her 2002 autobiography. She later trashed Major for being sexist and racist and disparaged his work as Prime Minister. She also admitted that, after all that time, she still loved him...
Anyway, what do we think about this survey? Are woman better at conducting affairs (and getting away with them) because of their skills as liars?
Via the Daily Mail.
