11 Most Adulterous States in America

Have you ever wondered which are the 11 most adulterous states in America? In 21 states, adultery is still considered illegal, but prosecutions are infrequent. It’s always the same question — whether the public should intervene in anyone’s private sexual life.

The laws which criminalize adultery differ from state to state. In recent American history, the states that revoked their adultery laws are: New Hampshire (2014), Colorado (2013) and West Virginia (2010). Some states consider it a felony crime (Wisconsin, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma). Adultery is a misdemeanor in Utah, New York, and Wisconsin.

On March 2010, one woman from North Carolina won $9 million from her husband’s mistress. This Shackelford case became well known, because Cynthia Shackelford used old case law and sued the mistress for alienation of affection. We found a fact that in North Carolina, there are more than 200 claims of this kind per year. Cynthia won $9 million in the end and admitted that she is lucky to live in the state where this law is recognized.

The majority considers these laws archaic, but numerous religious groups find them useful for protecting marital relations. UN women require decriminalization of adultery, because they think that adultery laws enforce discrimination and violence. They think that government should not interfere in the relationship of the spouses and that it is a violation of their privacy. It seems that politicians avoid to oppose these laws. Some say that the laws are rarely applied, but they are serving as some kind of a moral warning for the married couple.

Recently we published the article about 6 most adulterous professions in America and today we want to find out which are 11 most adulterous states in America. To make this list, we would need the information about the number of people who was unfaithful to their spouses. By looking into existing data about registered users on the websites specialized for an adultery or so-called “extramarital encounters,” we found one interesting chart made by one Reddit user.  He made the chart after a group “The Impact Team” hacked the website Ashley Madison, which is specialized for an adultery and promoting it for married couples.  It happened on 15 July this year. The hackers said that the release of the private data about registered users was done to criticize public approval of the websites that encourage an adultery. This chart was made to show which countries spends the most money on the mentioned website.

Let’s see together which are 11 most adulterous states in America:

11. Illinois

In the sixties, men were those who cheated more, but today surveys show that men and women are almost equally cheating on their spouses.

10. Maryland

Marylanders live in one of 11 most adulterous states. Statistics show that 70% of married women did not know that their spouses were having an affair. And 54% of married men did not know that their loved ones had “extramarital activity.”

9. Virginia

90% of Americans stated that adultery is morally wrong and nearly 30% of divorces are caused by adultery; most of the partners found their side partners online.

8. New Hampshire

One of every three couples is affected by an affair. Even 60% of married people have used the internet to flirt with someone.

7. New York

It is estimated that 30% people have had an online chat that later led to adultery in the United States of America.

6. Massachusetts

Even 86% of men and 81% of women admitted that they flirt with others at work. 75% of affairs were between coworkers.

5. Arkansas

It’s true that a lot of people may find a more suitable person after they marry. But emotional infidelity usually hurts more, because people are more likely to forgive one-night stands than emotional betrayal.

4. Connecticut

Online cheating is widespread in the world, as well as across the 11 most adulterous states in America. Infidelity is often not discovered. DNA testing is used more often for checking paternity than in the past and it is estimated that around 3% of all children in the United States of America are unwittingly raised in families without their biological father.

3. New Jersey

Since people are spending a lot of time at work and usually talk more to coworkers than their spouses, it leads to so called “office romances.”

2. Colorado

10% of all extramarital affairs are only for one night; 10% last for few weeks; 50% last one month and 30% last for more than two years.

1. Alabama

Alabama tops our list of 11 most adulterous states in America. It looks like there are more and more extramarital affairs in the United States of America, though the divorce rate is decreasing.