8/89Percentage of men earning more than $50,000 a year who say they have had at least six affairs with co-workers: 20
8/91Year Brazil’s Supreme Court first ruled that it is illegal for a man to kill his adulterous wife to defend his honor: 1991
6/97Chance that a romance cited by People magazine last year as among the century’s “greatest love stories” was adulterous: 1 in 2
8/97Number of U.S. military personnel convicted of adultery in the last year: 124
8/97Price California’s Fidelity Information Recovery service charges to send an “operative” to test a mate’s faithfulness: $350
Chance that an American woman believes this: 1 in 9
2/99Weeks after DNA testing confirmed Bill Clinton’s adultery last fall that such testing confirmed Thomas Jefferson’s as well: 7
8/02Number of northern Nigerian states in which being divorced and pregnant is enough evidence for an adultery conviction: 12
8/02Percentage of Afghans who will “soon” get AIDS if adulterous women are not jailed, according to a government deputy: 50
11/04Minimum number of Californians serving a life sentence for cheating on a driving exam: 1
2/04Minimum price a Russian company charges to provide an alibi for an adulterer’s absence: $34
11/08Number of scenes of or references to sex between a married couple shown during an average week of NBC programming: 1
2/09Percentage of unfaithful female multimillionaires who say they plan to spend less on their paramours this year: 15