This article could only be done by the British press. Yes, the subject is a new book from a French psychologist with some controversial issues. However, nobody can quite turn out stories about France being over-sexed quite like the British media. I remember taking the bus into Paris with an American who asked me if it's true what they say about everyone in France having affairs with everyone else. It's sort of like people outside of the US asking if everyone in America owns a gun and has violent crime on their doorstop every day.
If nothing else, it's worth a laugh because it's so typically British press. I really don't see where France is any different from any other country in terms of affairs. Somehow not the Daily Mail or Sun, but The Telegraph, of course:
Maryse Vaillant claims French men should stop being castigated for being serial womanisers and that keeping a mistress can actually improve their marriage.
In a controversial new book on the effects of infidelity on married life, Men, Love, Fidelity, Miss Vaillant says her aim is to "re-habilitate infidelity".
According to figures cited in the book, an estimated 39 per cent of French men cheat on their wives at some stage in their life.
