By 3 News online staff
Are you a tattooed, smoking, coke-swilling, meat-eating, Mac-hating, National voting, Christian female from Auckland?
If you answered yes to the above, notorious infidelity website AshleyMadison.com reckons you are a prime candidate for an affair.
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The website analysed 54,000 New Zealand members and came up with the cities with the most cheaters.
The results were:
- Christchurch – 1.26 percent of the population are on the site (4,615 people)
- Auckland – 1.23 percent (16,927 people)
- Hamilton 1.23 percent (1,765 people)
- Wellington – 1.22 percent (4,799 people)
- Dunedin – 1.2 percent (1,426 people)
Despite the relatively small number of people involved in extra-marital affairs site founder Noel Biderman says his study shows infidelity has hit the “mainstream”.
“What this study really demonstrates is that infidelity is part of human nature; it transcends geography, age, political disposition and religion,” he says.
“As the 70,000 AshleyMadison.com members in New Zealand show, infidelity is now very much mainstream, with thousands seeking satisfaction outside of their marriages.”
The statistics were arrived at by what AshleyMadison.com describe as a ‘cheaters-by-capita’ formula. This is the number of people on the site identifying a certain town as their place of residence as a percentage of the town’s overall population.
Auckland emerged as the city with the highest number of cheating females, making up 36 percent of the site’s female members.
The average member of the site was shown to be Christian (58.7 percent), support National (33.3 percent) and have had two extra marital affairs (13.6 percent).
Site members were also more likely to conduct their illicit romances on a PC (79 percent), choose Coke over Pepsi (84 percent), eat meat (95.3 percent) and three times more likely than the national average to have a tattoo and twice as likely to smoke.
3 News