The New Rules

'Top academic... take on adultery’ Irish Independent 'The recipe for happiness?’ - Telegraph 'Could having an affair save your marriage?’ - The Daily Mail Online 'I agree with Catherine Hakim’ - Deidre Sanders, The Sun 'The grown up way to love’ - Sunday Times Is the internet is changing the way we form relationships? Thanks to Facebook we all have more friends than ever before. Could the web now be changing the very nature of the relationship between the sexes? Gathering together the candid confessions of people who have played away using websites dedicated to married affairs, the ground-breaking writer Catherine Hakim examines how the web is changing what it means to be a woman. Giving us a glimpse into the very heart of this secretive world she reveals where the balance of power between men and women is shifting. Attitudes are changing. The New Rules reveals the steps that women can take to have their cake, and eat it too.

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'A masterwork.'THE INDEPENDENT'Too juicy to ignore.'THE TIMES'The grown-up way to love.'SUNDAY TIMES'The recipe for happiness?'TELEGRAPH'How we manage love and relationships.'OBSERVER'Can having an affair save your marriage?'Bel Mooney, DAILY MAILIs the internet changing the relationship between the sexes? While eighty per cent of those interviewed in polls say that affairs are wrong, for example, the percentage who admit to having had an affair has doubled every ten years to 2010. Looking at the latest data, social scientist Catherine Hakim traces new faultlines between men and women and how they are shifting in our increasingly sexualized culture in this landmark study of modern love and marriage. Includes a new chapter, Economies of Desire.

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'Genius.'(Sarah Vine, Book Of The Week, Times ) 'Refreshing.'(Will Self, Guardian ) 'Makes one see things differently.(Lucy Kellaway, Financial Times ) 'Hakim is absolutely right. (Daily Telegraph )