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October 26, 2012
The Infidelity Gap
We’re closing the wrong gender gap. For the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I’m John Stonestreet with The Point.
In a recent Wall Street Journal essay, Dr. Peggy Drexler claims that recent studies indicate that while the percentage of men having extramarital affairs has fallen slightly, the number of women practicing infidelity is jumping. One study says that 23% of men and 19% of women are having affairs, a much narrower gap than a couple decades ago.
“Do women account for more of today's affairs?” asks Drexler? “Probably. But in a society that has been preaching, legislating and celebrating gender equality for decades, equality in marital misdeeds might be expected too.”
The lie of the sexual revolution was ironic: men have screwed up the world by oppressing women and being sexual predators, so women now is the time to act more like men. Rather than empowering women, it’s led to more sexual brokenness. The wrong description of sexual identity and norms, leads to the wrong prescription for sexual behavior. For ThePointRadio.org, I’m John Stonestreet.
Further Reading
The New Face of Infidelity
Peggy Drexler | The Wall Street Journal | October 19, 2012
- Posted at 07:38 am by John Stonestreet
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October 26, 2012 // 10:33 am // #
I find this as not true. Over the last four years at our church alone the men have decided that the grass is greener on the other side and have turned their backs on God, their wives, and family. These men that have done this were very active in our church in different ministries. We have had six men do this and one woman. What I can tell you is that are Pastor teaches out of the Bible and does hold his congregation accountable in their lives and choices. He is a Godly man. The choice that these individuals have made is their own doing.
I have watched it in other churches in our area as well. Men leaving. I do not know what is taught at their churches, if there is any accountability or not.
My heart breaks for what is happening in the church family. I pray for the marriages that I know are still together.
January 15, 2013 // 03:42 pm // #
I think infidelity in marriage is far higher than any of the so-called experts think. So many cases happen that no one ever hears about. There are still a lot of women out there who are so desperate to keep their marriages intact that they put up with more than they should. The statistics are probably very staggering in this world of divorce and discontent. Like Judy, I find it appalling that such things are happening even in our churches. God has very clearly told us in the Bible that adultery is detestable. In Bible times adulterers would have faced a death sentence. Maybe it’s just that our society has gotten so lax in morality that more people than ever are thinking that cheating on their spouses is okay, too.