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Lying not all bad
17/05/2008 18:48 - (SA)
New York - Honesty is not the best
policy, especially when it comes to bad dates or the dreaded
"do I look fat in this" question from a partner, a new survey
showed on Friday.
One in two American men and women have told a lie to get
out of a date, while 32% of men and 43% of women
have given a fake phone number to someone they were not
interested in, according to the Harlequin Romance Report 2008.
"What we discovered ... is that at the heart of every
confession lies the truth about who we are," Katherine Orr and
Marleah Stout, editors-in-chief of the report, said in a
statement.
When it comes to giving an opinion on whether your partner
looks fat in an outfit, 61% of men and 50% of
women approved of lying, while 63% of men and women said
that in general lies were sometimes alright.
Toronto-based Harlequin Enterprises - best known for
publishing romance novels - surveyed 2 000 men and women
online from the United States and Canada.
The report also found that 46% of men and 45% of women thought a lie was not harmful if a person didn't have
anything nice to say about a friend's significant other.
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