The fate of literary heroines Anna Karenina, Emma Bovary and Hester Prynne is over. While their destinies were grim, real women today are exploring their needs with a striking absence of guilt and as a form of self-exploration, with a huge rise in female infidelity, according to bestselling gender expert Susan Shapiro Barash. Today women have affairs with a sense of entitlement and 90% of the women have no guilt and actively pursue the affair according to Barash’s research which also attributes the explosion of female infidelity to social media, making exposure to a lover easier than ever before, and COVID which has increased the number of cyberspace affairs. She analyzes the four types of affairs and reveals how an affair can improve one’s marriage/monogamous relationship. Barash has been featured in The NY Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The NY Post, The Chicago Tribune, Elle, ‘O’, and Marie Claire. She has also appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS, CNN and MSNBC.