Recent research has shown that the most likely women to have an affair are teachers, housewives, nurses and estate agents. The most unfaithful male professions are doctors, lawyers, policemen and estate agents.

For the women, I guess the common denominator is a very demanding job that elicits very little public appreciation or monetary recompense for the hard work involved.

For the guys, it's a question of huge responsibility with a great deal of public opprobrium over the commensurate remuneration.

Anyone who feels they lack professional worth and is emotionally under-valued in the matrimonial home is a walking time bomb in terms of an affair. They need to get some form of affirmation from somewhere.

The reason why realtors are on both lists? Well, I guess the answer is that they take so much flak from the general public whose perception is that they do very little and charge a lot for it. However, they also have a schedule that allows for extra-curricular activity during the day. The result is that they have both the motive and the means.

When it comes to being exposed as an adulterer, the statistics show that those who cheat online are less likely to be found out because the browsers on our computers allow us to delete the cache and browsing history when we have finished. As long as no additional monitoring software has been installed by a suspicious spouse, any record of what we have just been up to should be gone.

A lot of people use internet dating sites because of the protection they provide, offering password protected photographs and other methods to keep members' identities secure. Very few infidelities are actually exposed through this means and those that do get caught tend to cite incriminating text messages or phone calls as the instrument of their undoing.

More and more often, lawyers are relying on such messages as evidence in divorce cases because, whilst it is illegal to hack into another person's email account, phones are still fair game and people have a habit of leaving these treasure troves full of guilty secrets lying around indiscriminately.

You should delete anything that could ever be misconstrued.

Although I couldn't help noticing recently that iPhones have developed a new App which, when downloaded onto both phones allows philanderers to text each other at their leisure, secure in the knowledge that all messages will automatically be deleted after a set timeframe has elapsed.

However, I doubt it will be long before the app itself will become just as incriminating as the communications it has removed.