The methodology is a little suspect, but the results do suggest that married men in Tampa are more anxious to step out on their wives than their counterparts across the country. The Science of Cheating Blog posted phony personal ads on Craig's List soliciting extramarital affairs. Tampa men were positively Spitzeresque in their responses.
How did we lure these potential cheaters into sending us emails? That was pretty easy, actually. We set up craigslist ads in each of the twenty largest metropolitan areas of the US which basically appeared to be from an "attractive" married woman asking specifically for a married man with whom she would like to have an affair with. And the emails came pouring in. Out of a total of about 1400 emails, only about seven (from Seattle, Houston, Minneapolis, San Diego and Boston) were from people (usually impolitely) providing their distaste for our ad. The remainder, however, seemed to be from eager, well-qualified men of all ages and races eagerly looking forward to communicating with our fictitious housewife. Many even sent pictures of their private parts in order to, I guess, entice her. Very rarely were our ads flagged or removed.
To give you an example of the frequency patterns we became interested in: the metro area of Tampa, which currently holds the worst cheating quotient title, recorded a whopping 100 unique emails in a 120 minute period, second only to New York City's 125. But, you see, the male married population of New York is 7.5 times larger than that of Tampa!
The cads are obviously not getting away with it. Florida has the 10th highest divorce rate in the nation. Now go home and hug your wife.