The new age of infidelity: Why do cheaters cheat?
STEFANIA INFANTE What do the two colleagues filmed embracing at the Coldplay concert in July 2025, Gustave Flaubert's Emma Bovary and François Hollande and his scooter seatmate Julie Gayet have in common? From literature to water-cooler conversations, from social media to politics, affairs are everywhere. In books as in real life, stories of mistresses, lovers, or the betrayed fascinate, scandalize, often make people smile, and sometimes send chills down their spines.
- ▪STEFANIA INFANTE What do the two colleagues filmed embracing at the Coldplay concert in July 2025, Gustave Flaubert's Emma Bovary and François Hollande and his scooter seatmate Julie Gayet have in common?
- ▪From literature to water-cooler conversations, from social media to politics, affairs are everywhere.
- ▪In books as in real life, stories of mistresses, lovers, or the betrayed fascinate, scandalize, often make people smile, and sometimes send chills down their spines.
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| Publication time | Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:30:12 +0200 |
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STEFANIA INFANTE What do the two colleagues filmed embracing at the Coldplay concert in July 2025, Gustave Flaubert's Emma Bovary and François Hollande and his scooter seatmate Julie Gayet have in common? They're all cheaters. From literature to water-cooler conversations, from social media to politics, affairs are everywhere. In books as in real life, stories of mistresses, lovers, or the betrayed fascinate, scandalize, often make people smile, and sometimes send chills down their spines. Talking about cheating, in the collective imagination, means invoking love, lies, betrayal and drama – the perfect cocktail of human passions. And everyone has an opinion to share. But grasping a social understanding of infidelity is more complicated than it seems.
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