I came back here to this thread, just to see if anyone actually "supported" cheating...and I have to say, as a 5 year "resident" of POF...it is refreshing as all heck, to see the posts made! ;O)
Do you really buy it though? I mean how many of us have been cheated on or have cheated in here? This forum can't be cheater-free, it's ludicrous to imagine that. I've been cheated on multiple times. Is everyone here, like me, only a victim of it, or is it more likely that there's a blend of victims, perpatrators, and people whove both been victims AND perpatrators on this site, and even reading and/or responding to this thread? Of course it could be that the cheaters just don't want to own having done so in a thread or supporting it, particularly in a thread at a website for potentially dating.
While it is refreshing like you say, I don't think it's indicative of much except the hopeful sense that the people responding are both honest, and deeply ethical, which is great to hear. It may sound weird coming from me, considering my own post which sought to at least partially explain why it sometimes happens in marriages, and the reasoning behind it, but as I said, I've never been a perpatrator ever. Something about my family background, and the values I was brought up with, no doubt combined w/the agony of being the betrayed one, more than once.