The mobile phone has become an indispensible item for illicit lovers
Britons believe new technology is helping one of the oldest vices in the world - adultery.
According to a survey, men and women believe conducting illicit affairs has never been easier thanks to the growth in the number of mobile phone and internet users.
The study - conducted for the divorce lawyers to the late Diana, Princess of Wales, Mishcon de Reya - found almost half of those (46%) questioned about their relationship habits claimed the advent of emails, texting and internet chat rooms has led to a massive rise in the number people being unfaithful to their partners.
It found nearly a third of people (29%) admitted using emails, text messaging and internet chat rooms to flirt with potential partners or nurture an affair.
Of those, almost a quarter (22%) confessed to doing so every day while 62% admitted to doing so once a week.
The law firm says adultery has grown "alarmingly" in recent years and Sandra Davis, partner and head of Mishcon de Reya's Family Practice, says the surge in availability of instant telecommunication is reflected in an equally dramatic increase in numbers wanting a divorce on the grounds of adultery.
She said: "More and more cases that I am dealing with, in which infidelity is the key issue, now contain an element of mobile phone and internet use as part of illicit activity.
"The number of addresses in the UK is rising and they too are being used as a conduit for affairs on the worldwide web and away from the prying eyes of partners.
"It has been our experience that those of our clients who cite adultery as the cause of the breakdown of their marriage find, increasingly, that new forms of communication have been instrumental in the initial conception of infidelity."
In the survey, one in ten people questioned admitted they feared e-flirting may be fuelling infidelity.
They can't mean us surely.
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