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So if you're a big slut, and I use slut always in the sex positive sense of the term, or an adulterer, which can be positive or negative, depending on how you feel about infidelity. You don't have to blame yourself anymore.

Apparently, you have a genetic issue.

Reading from livescience.com, a particular version of a dopamine receptor gene called

DRD4, which actually sounds like a robot, is linked to people's tendency toward both

infidelity and uncommitted one-night stands,

researchers reported on November 30th in the online open access journal, Plas One.

Blah, blah, blah.

The same gene has been linked to risk-taking gambling and alcoholism and a love for potentially

destructive thrills and undestructive

films, a thing for horror movies.

This particular gene has been linked to all sorts of, as they say, risk-taking

behaviors.

Anyway, it turns out the people who have this gene were twice as likely to have a history

of one-night stands and a little more than twice as likely to have committed adultery. The adultery stat is really, I thought, interesting.

50% of the people in the study with DR, D4, told researchers that they'd committed adultery

compared with 22% of those who didn't have the gene. So people with the gene were a little

more and twice as likely

to have cheated on their partners. But it occurred to me reading the study that, you know,

if the gene is tied to risk-taking behaviors, and adultery all by itself is a risk-taking behavior

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