The poll, claiming to be the UK's largest study of sex and marriage, was commissioned by IllicitEncounters.com, an extra-marital dating site. The research also revealed that 4% of Devon spouses had cheated on their current partner on an earlier occasion.
The Devon adulterers may simply have been more honest than others, but the traditional values of rural areas like Devon - including early marriage - may also lead people to feel ''trapped'' in their relationships.
Surrey was found to be the UK's ''most saintly'' county. Less than 1% admitted to being currently involved in adultery, and only 2% had cheated on their partner in the past.
Below are the top 10 cheating counties, according to the survey, with the percentage of respondents who admitted to cheating on their spouse - either currently or in the past - shown in brackets as a combined figure.
1) Devon (47%)
2) Avon (Bristol, south Gloucestershire, Bath and north-east Somerset) (19%)
3) Lincolnshire (12.5%)
4) Hampshire (10.5%)
5) Derbyshire (10%)
6) Cheshire (9%)
7) South Yorkshire (9%)
8) Kent (7.5%)
9) Essex (7%)
10) Hertfordshire (7%)
4 comments:
So one could also say that Surrey is the most boring county......
:-P
I don't get the numbers... 44% are cheating now, but only 4% have cheated in the past? It's like they've gone from saintly to sex-crazed in the past month. Either I'm missing something (very likely), or these numbers are fishy.
44% is about 4% of the total of the past.....?
Meh- Statistics is something like Higher-level Math's...
Since my knowledge of anything having to do with England is episodes of Last of the Summer Wine, all I can think of are old country roads and old people. Now I'm getting awful images of the septuagenarian debauchery.
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