What would you forgive your girlfriend for doing with another guy?

November 2, 2009 by Toonleap  
Filed under Japan, News, Oddities

It has been a long time since I post a survey but here it is, courtesy of What Japan Thinks…

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From goo Ranking, They asked several Japanese about what sorts of activities people would fogive their partners for doing with other members of the opposite sex from their partner, for both women would forgive their boyfriends for and men would forgive their girlfriends for.

Between the 20th and 22nd of August 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private online questionnaire. 51.1% of the sample were male, 8.4% in their teens, 14.2% in their twenties, 26.7% in their thirties, 28.2% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 11.2% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Q: What would you forgive your boyfriend for doing with another girl? (Sample size=527, women)

Rank Score
1 Going out to eat in a mixed group 100
2 Visiting her when she’s sick 87.2
3 Her coming to visit him when he’s sick 65.3
4 Praising her 60.7
5 Discussing love and relationships with her 55.1
6 Treating her to a meal 42.9
7 Going on a trip with a mixed group 25.0
8 Hiding from me email send from or to her 25.0
9 Just the two of them going out for a meal 20.9
10 Hiding from me telephone calls from or to her 19.9
11 Secretly going to a dating party 17.9
12 Frequently talking about her 16.8
13 Getting email from her daily 15.8
14 Sending her email daily 14.8
15 Saving email from her 13.8
16 Calling each other by private nicknames 12.8
17= Staying over 12.2
17= Just the two of them going for a drive 12.2
17= Walking hand-in-hand 12.2
20 Staying in a hotel overnight together 11.7

Q: What would you forgive your girlfriend for doing with another guy? (Sample size=550, men)

Rank Score
1 Going out to eat in a mixed group 100
2 Visiting him when he’s sick 83.9
3 Him coming to visit her when she’s sick 69.2
4 Praising him 67.1
5 Discussing love and relationships with him 59.4
6 Treating him to a meal 35.7
7 Going on a trip with a mixed group 28.7
8= Hiding from me telephone calls from or to him 23.8
8= Hiding from me email send from or to him 23.8
10 Frequently talking about him 23.1
11 Secretly going to a dating party 22.4
12= Sending him email daily 18.9
12= Staying over 18.9
14= Just the two of them going out for a meal 18.2
14= Getting email from him daily 18.2
14= Staying in a hotel overnight together 18.2
17 Calling each other by private nicknames 17.5
18= Saving email from him 16.8
18= Hiding that she’s already got a boyfriend 16.8
20 Getting an expensive present from him 16.1

Curious things about relationships. What do you think about it?

Source: What Japan Thinks?

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2 Responses to “What would you forgive your girlfriend for doing with another guy?”

  1. kadian1364 on November 2nd, 2009 2:34 pm

    The first 7 choices are ranked in the same order between the sexes, but as expected, on the average men are more forgiving than women. I’m a bit surpised that going to a hotel with another man is more forgivable than… emails?

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  2. karry on November 2nd, 2009 3:46 pm

    “on the average men are more forgiving than women.”

    Thats Japan for you. In the rest of the world the simple formula works “men forget, but dont forgive – women forgive, but dont forget”. That is all.

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