The 30% number comes from estimates of men in women in marraiges:men cheating at 20% rate and women cheating at 13%, so actually 33%. Doing the five minutes of work I am willing to put in on google, I actually haven't found a single study that covers cheating in college aged relationships. The only thing I've seen is the one you've linked, which is and article on some website I've never heard of called huffpost referencing and article that when I click on the link they provided... doesn't seem to exist. So at best in this argument, we are both wrong with maybe you learning a lesson about how naive you are when it comes what sources you trust on the internet
As far as how serious the infidelity is, I don't think it really needs to be pointed out that if we are talking about some 3 week old relationship where one person cheats and then breaks it off isn't really that serious. But once a relationship is serious, cheating is a horrible thing to do to someone. You can really hurt someone by doing it. Calling them "soft and weak" for it is just making excuses for the perpetrator and it's victim blaming.
Where did I say they should be hung? I said they're shitty people. Yeah, I believe that their circle of friends ostracizing them is fair and legitimate punishment. And in all honesty, even though I haven't really sat around thinking about it to much, I kind of believe that people committing adultery maybe should be a jailable offense. Doxxing these women to everyone they knew is maybe a little dark, but if they had simply emailed their boyfriends/fiances and let them know.... I don't really have a problem with that either.
I also realize that people change. I am not meaning to say that someone who cheated 10 years ago when they are 21 should still be a social outcast or that I would even think of them as a shitty person. But at the time of the action, they are and they have to live with the consequences of that.
This is exactly why I responded in the first place, though I probably could have done a better job in the beginning. You know what else was once fairly common? Domestic abuse. Everybody doing it doesn't make it forgivable.
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@Oblivian you are making light of what these women did. They didn't get drunk at a college party and mess up. They contacted someone over the internet, flew out there, and fucked someone for money while in a relationship. I am willing to be that the number of people doing that is very small.
I don't know if you're referring to me or not, but I've said from my very first post I was glad the guys in this racket lost the lawsuit. They sound like awful people. Just like I think it was incredibly shitty of those women to go on their and talk about how they had boyfriends or fiances before getting fucked, I think the man in that situation is also a piece of shit for knowingly fucking someone's significant other. These guys are scum and most of these women are ho's. Is what it is