Adultery is just 'adults living'

While swans may mate for life, humans are not biologically geared for the same destiny and, in fact, adultery is just a case of "adults living".

That is the view of Mark D White PhD, who wrote on the US internet blogging site Psychology Today that he doesn't recognise the act of infidelity but rather considers it to be a case of "just adults living the way they always have and always will".

He attributed his more liberal attitude to being half American, half French, the leniency coming from the latter.

Commenting on the mass attention giving to cheating celebrities from both the British and American media, he said: "In France, nobody gets hot and bothered about this stuff.

"Felix Faure, president of the republic in the last years of the nineteenth century, died in the bed of his mistress - people respect him for that."

While the French may have less of an interest in adultery and extramarital relationships, the UK media seem to spin stories of secret affairs on almost an hourly basis.

The latest ABC newspaper circulation figures showed that in February the Daily Mirror alone sold 1,234,967 copies, a 1.36 per cent increase compared to the previous month, boosted by the so-called 'infidelity month'.

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