Are Men more faithful than women?

[ArnoldRimmer]

My experience is that nowadays men and women are almost equal.

BUT where I do see quite a big difference is when it comes to how they're handling the situation. In the cases I've experienced, the women seemed to act much more strategically.

For example, I knew a group of girls (many of them being already married etc.) who had established their own clever system for cheating on their partners, where the other girls would provide for an almost waterproof alibi whenever one of the girls would spend an evening or night with another guy.

Also, my experience is the women feel less sorry. The guys I know that cheated on their girls were usually significantly plagued by their conscience after doing so. Sooner or later, many of them confessed what they did, not because the truth was about to reveal anyway, but because they wanted to somehow get rid of their feelings of guilt. The cheating girls on the other hand were different: Many of them didn't seem to feel any personal guilt at all - quite the contrary, they often placed the blame completely on their partners. Usually something along the lines of "Well if my boyfriend was more of the ideal partner, I wouldn't have felt any desire to spend time with another man in the first place, right?"

It's just a personal theory, but I believe this is because men and women tend to be prone to cheating on their partners in different situations: I think many men are cheating on their girlfriends when they're actually happy with and have no intentions of leaving her - but they're somehow frightened by the prospect of her being the last women they will have sex with. But cheating on the woman they actually want to stay with causes them feelings of guilt.
The women on the other hand seemed to be prone to cheating on their boyfriends when they were already somewhat disappointed with their current relationship. They don't intend to stay with their current partner forever anyway, so they are kind of just waiting for a better relationship to jump on to. But since in the beginning it's never clear if a relationship with some new guy will really work out, it's better to keep the old relationship as a safety backup until everything is settled.