Is Having a Favorite Cheating?

In a 2009 Florida State University study, 94 percent of women said that if their partner became involved with someone else, they'd be more upset if he bonded emotionally with that woman than if he bonded physically. "Confiding in another woman signals an emotional attachment," says Jon Maner, Ph.D., the study's coauthor. "From an evolutionary standpoint, the possibility of a man investing his affection, energy, and resources in someone else is a big reproductive threat for a woman, even bigger than the possibility of his engaging in casual sex."

So, even if your SO is cool with (or at least tolerates) your occasional SC visit to see naked women in general, she may have entirely different feelings if she knew you were going to see one particular girl again and again. It's the whole idea of having an emotional connection (even if it is probably just a one way connection).

So, what do you think – is having a favorite, even if extras or OTC is not involved, a form of cheating?