An Unfaithful Woman

We talk about cheating men all the time. “All men cheat” is a common mantra thrown around and I’ve even heard some say that the desire and will to cheat is ingrained in the DNA of all men.

But on the flip side,  some say when a woman’s ready to cheat, she can be deadly. I was chatting with a male friend of mine recently and he started explaining that for him, the worst thing a woman could do to him, is cheat. For him, a woman cheating is worst than a man cheating. He was looking at it from the anatomical aspect of a woman opening her legs and giving herself to another man after being with her boyfriend/husband. So while he does think it’s wrong for either sex  to cheat, according to him, when a woman does it, it’s worst.

But why do so many persons see a woman cheating as such a horrible thing when men cheating is generally accepted as the norm? Isn’t this a double standard? If a man cheats, it’s OK, they are expected to. But when a woman does it she’s ‘no good’, a whore and in Jamaican vernacular, a ‘sketel’.  So men cheat and women cheat but that doesn’t make it right does it? Wasn’t there a time when people were faithful to each other? You choose one person, you stick with them. If it’s not working out, you break it off and move on. There may be more variables involved, but isn’t that the bottom line? It’s strange that monogamy doesn’t seem to have increased when there are so many sexually transmitted diseases out there including AIDS, that kills.
Cheating is wrong but why does it seem worse when a woman does it?