“When the Eliot Spitzer scandal broke in March, I had only sympathy for him: another middle-aged married guy tormented by his sexual needs. I’m 52 and have always struggled with the desire for sexual variety…

When people at dinner parties cried out, “What was Spitzer thinking?” I whispered to a friend that I knew damn well what he was thinking: He wanted some “strange,” to quote the old Kris Kristofferson line.”

via What Makes Married Men Want to Have Affairs? — New York Magazine.

Kind of an interesting article. I have been convinced for a long time that human evolution has programmed men to seek this variety.

Another huge factor is the number of women that lose interest or just plain withhold sex to manipulate their hisbands.Here is a really big discussion happening at frigid wife withholding sex in marriage  

Phil