Abstract
The phenomenon of infidelity continues to be a serious problem for marriages and intimate relationships. The present chapter focuses on studies of infidelity within the Spanish cultural context from 2008 to the present. From a sociological and cultural point of view, the reference studies analyse the data gathered by the Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Practices conducted by the Centre for Sociological Studies in 2008. The chapter also reflects upon the role and evolution of technology and the internet, from dating websites to dating apps, and their impact on intimate relationships.
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Of these, 2.4% said they had never had a partner, while 16.2% said that they were currently without a partner but had had partners in the past. Among the latter, therefore, could be included widows/widowers or divorced persons as well as those who had broken less institutionalized relationships. The average age for this group was 50 years, and it comprised 58% women and 68% Catholics.
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Likewise, the CIS (2014) survey data indicates that the proportion of cohabiting couples is greater than 17%.
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One should keep in mind that this increment is due to various member states, such as Italy, Spain , Ireland, and Malta, having legalized divorce during this period.
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The average age of marriage for males is 32.8 years and for women 30.4 years (Injuve, 2012).
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www.ipsos.es. Accessed 2 August 2017.
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https://www.ashleymadison.com/. Accessed 2 August 2017. Ashley Madison is a website for married people looking for an affair. Its servers were hacked in 2015, revealing the details of most of its users.
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https://es.gleeden.com/. Accessed 2 August 2017. Some of these friendship websites are addressed to women, and specifically created for women who want to have extramarital relationships. Gleeden started its operations in 2009 based on a market study which revealed that one out of three dating website users came to know another person over the web who was married or had a stable partner.
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Many more friendship sites exist than can be presented in this study. To name some in the Spanish context: Match was established in 1995, Meetic (2003), Badoo (2006), eDarling (2008), Adoptauntio (2008), MiAffaire (2009), Tinder (2012), and Caoba (2014), among others.
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http://www.sexole.com/. Accessed 2 August 2017.
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This period, as we all remember, is the one in which the economic crisis hit Spain . More economic problems meant more problems between couples. In fact, the business of online dating benefited from the crisis. There were many jobless people with more free time and greater access to the internet.
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One also has to keep in mind that the technology enables not only those who want to be unfaithful, but also those who are being cheated. The use of secret passwords, call taping, caller ID, photographs, etc., as instruments to discover infidelity has also been on the increase.
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See http://www.pornhub.com/insights/pornhub-spain. Accessed 2 August 2017.
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http://ww1.pornbub.com/. Accessed 2 August 2017.
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http://www.sigmados.com/. Accessed 2 August 2017.
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http://www.abc.es/sociedad/20150215/abci-mejores-paginas-ligar-201502132210_1.html. Accessed 2 August 2017.
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https://www.gotinder.com/. Accessed 2 August 2017. The method employed by this application is a process of elimination (“discarding”). The user sees images of those who are located close to her, and, with a flick of the finger, she expresses liking or dislike for the image. When two users express mutual virtual interest in each other, it produces a “spark” or a match, and the application allows them to chat . The relationship then takes its own course.
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Blanc, G.A. (2018). Internet Infidelity in the Cultural Framework of Spain. In: Sahni, S., Jain, G. (eds) Internet Infidelity. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5412-9_6
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