Man talk with Closer’s Andrew Hartley: spying games

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by Andrew Hartley |
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We live in the age of the app. There’s an app for everything; shopping, keeping fit, finding love – and, apparently, spying on your cheating man.

Google has recently been forced to 
axe one of its most popular apps in Brazil called Rastreador de Namorados (that’s Boyfriend Tracker to us) after a massive outcry about privacy issues. It works by allowing worried women to secretly see every single text their man sends, track his location at all times and even listen in to what he’s doing by getting his phone to silently call them.

A quick search on my computer tells me there are loads more apps like this available in the UK to keep tabs on “your man.” Eh? Why does everyone assume it’s only men who need spying on?

Latest research reckons the number 
of women who cheat on their partner is almost 20 per cent, not too far behind the 25 per cent of men. But the big thing to remember is that women stand less chance of being caught as they’re deemed better at hiding their mischief. There are even stats to suggest 15 per cent of kids haven’t been fathered by the man who thinks he’s their dad. Love-rat lady alert!

But like cheating blokes, it looks like their days could be numbered. Might 
it be time to change the name of that 
app to Rastreador de Namorada (Girlfriend Tracker)?

Man Myths

#22 Men reach their sexual peak at 18

It’s always seemed very unfair that women are said to be sexually explosive at 35, while we’re on the scrapheap by the age of 19. So three cheers for Professor Lisa Wade, who has extensively researched the subject and concluded that’s total rubbish.

She blames a false belief that the penis is most “mechanically” able at 18. I don’t want to blow my own, er, trumpet here, but let me tell you 
– the mechanics work very nicely 
for many years post-teens.

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