Is sexual exclusivity on its way out?

With reports of secret affairs and adulterous encounters springing up in almost every news report, sexual exclusivity may be on its way out.

That is according to radical couples therapist Esther Perel who told the Guardian that monogamy will soon be something that is not assumed and will instead have to be something that is "negotiated".

Ms Perel's opinion is that infidelity in a marriage may fast become something as publicly accepted as having a one-night stand or divulging in premarital sex, acts that were at one time, like adultery, deemed inappropriate.

She told the news provider: "At all four corners of the world, at this very moment, someone is either cheating, or contemplating cheating, or listening to the stories of someone else who is cheating, envious of that person who is in the throes of an affair.

"With every marriage, with every relationship, comes the possibility of an affair. It always will."

However, while she argues that public opinion of infidelity may be changing, as more and more people are getting themselves a bit on the side, research suggests humans have never been designed for polygamy.

Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science, found that it is in men's nature to be unfaithful.

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