1 In 4 Married American Men On Ashley Madison: Why That Is A Great Wake-Up For Women

1 In 4 Married American Men On Ashley Madison: Why That Is A Great Wake-Up For Women The numbers are compelling: 37 million people who paid to have their names removed from online affair site, Ashley Madison -- and nearly all men (the 5.5 million women profiles on the list were later found to be nearly all fake). I crunched the numbers (see bottom of post for details), and found that one in four married men in the United States were on the Ashley Madison site.  One in four. You know four married men. I know way more than four married men. At least one in four of them was on Ashley Madison. Of course, there are a zillion other ways to find sex or romantic companionship with someone who is not your wife. I don't need to spell them out, because you are an adult, and you live in the real world where everyone knows that people cheat, all the time. And yet, when we hear figures like half of men cheat, or 15 percent of married women cheat, as New York Times bestselling therapist M. Gary Neuman told me for this article about Ashley Madison and the impending divorce boom, we all exhibit shock and awe and skepticism at these very high numbers.