Mario Vargas Llosa, a well-known Peruvian novelist, reportedly slapped Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a well-known Colombian novelist, on his face 31 years ago. A Spanish news agency suggested that the incident marring the relations between two illustrious writers had stemmed from a woman. It is a commonplace that hot-blooded Latin Americans often fight over women. The new details that were recently made public clearly indicate that a woman was behind the fallout. According to reports, Marquez was “giving comfort” to Patricia, Llosa’s wife, while her husband was away. No further details as to the nature of comfort provided by Marquez to Patricia were available though Llosa was quoted as saying “here’s my payback for things you did to Patricia in Barcelona” shortly after the incident.
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Latin Americans are not unique when it comes to things people do when they find out that their spouses or lovers have been unfaithful to them. People of all nationalities can get upset or fly off the handle after learning of an act of adultery. Contrary to a popular belief, the French do not take extramarital affairs for granted. Just a handful of French males – about 4% - are reported to have cheated on their partners last year. At the same time, the French could shut their eyes to their president’s flings. In our time when marriages rest on love, monogamy is believed to be the thing widely sought after. People cheat on their partners on the sly. The methods of making up for committing adultery differ greatly in different countries.
Adultery is rather a social problem than a moral issue in Russia. According to the 1998 opinion poll, almost 40% of the Russians believed that an act of adultery was either “never a mistake” or “sometimes a mistake,” compared to 6% of the Americans who shared the viewpoint. Moscow psychologists say that an affair appears rather inevitable for those Russians who have to share their two-room apartments with in-laws. The number of Russians living in such deplorable conditions is high.
No nationwide survey of sexual practices has ever been conducted in Russia. However, the 1996 opinion poll found out that more than a half of Russian males and a quarter of women had admitted to cheating on their spouses. To some extent, money can offset the emotional pain caused by adultery once it comes to light. According to female respondents, an infidel spouse would typically buy a fur coat for his wife or pay for her vacation at a sea resort in Turkey.
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