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In countries without state welfare, marriage is an economic construct to secure the funding of raising children. In the past it was also used to secure the funding of the potential mother.
Marriage did already change a lot. But in the countries with shitty state support for single parents and their children, it still serves its purpose. It does not prevent cheating, though - and probably never did.
You are right that the judgement is a bit stupid.
A quarter of all men cheat. A fifth of all women cheat. Cheating is somewhat common. Maybe, it's time to accept the fact that human sexuality isn't really that easy to confine. Normalizing porn as venting mechanism for unfulfilled desires might help men and women stay exclusive.
It's hard to know for sure how many cheat, and I suspect the real numbers are much higher than what the statistics say (since people won't always be honest about what they do or did).
I suspect people are afraid of getting caught, mostly, and I read that most cheating happens when being away on conferences and stuff like that. Whenever there is no chance that anyone else finds out who meets together in a room.
But yeah, people won't like to think about these things since it's scary as hell if you are being cheated on.