Federico Bal ended his relationship with Sofia Aldrey, after she discovered the infidelities committed by the actor. Both have known each other for a long time, but they became a couple in 2019, and they separated after Aldrey discovered the actor red-handed thanks to the washing machine: Bal put the washing machine to work at three in the morning after changing the sheets, and his cell phone gave him warned.
“Who spends washing the sheets at 3 in the morning? Only a guy who has just given the rattle and before the bride comes, the sheet has to be clean and dry, ”explained the LAM panelist, Yanina Latorre. Bal acknowledged his slips and argued that it was a genetic load that drives him to infidelity: remembering his father’s romance with Ayelen Paleo, which meant his breakup with Carmen Barbieri.
Beyond moral judgments, the question that arises is why are people unfaithful? Is it a bad habit or is there a scientific explanation? Some investigations show the explanation that there is a “infidelity gene”. This is a little-studied gene called DRD4, Associated with the production of dopamine in the brain, one of the hormones that chemically represents pleasure and influences the ability to dare certain activities.
The possibility of relating the propensity to be unfaithful to genetic inheritance interested scientists from the University of New York who began to investigate a few years ago: according to the study they carried out, which took a DNA sample from 200 volunteers, people with a certain modification of the DRD4 gene, called 7R+, are more likely to be unfaithful. they were much more prone to promiscuous relationships, one-night stands, and adultery.
Half of the people who had this variation said they were habitually unfaithful, compared to 22% of those who were unfaithful without suffering this variation. In other words, according to this study, not all unfaithful people are for genetic reasons, but there could be a genetic predisposition to being unfaithful.
Are there differences between male and female infidelity? According to a study of the Charles University of Prague, who surveyed 86 couples, men inherit this behavior, while women do not. Also, an investigation of Max Planck Institute of Germany reveals that female mandarin diamondbacks (Taeniopygia guttata) are unfaithful because they inherit genetic variants (alleles) from male ancestors, which would increase their tendency to promiscuity.
Does this mean that infidelity is above all a matter of “men”? Not at all. A few years ago researchers from the University of Queensland, in Australiapublished an article in the scientific journal Evolution and Human Behavior in which they explain that female infidelity would also have genetic reasonsrelated to mutations in the vasopressin hormone receptor gene, which is related to trust, sexuality and empathy.
Although Brendan P. Zietsch, the scientist who carried out the experiment, argued that there would then be a relationship between female genes and infidelity, he concluded that it cannot be affirmed that there are no other factors that can trigger adulterysuch as the circumstances in which the event may have developed, the availability of people to act in that way, etc.
But what about trans identities that escape binary conceptions? Some investigations show the fact that transsexual people already have traits of both one sex and the other in their brain. At a time of visibility, where more and more young people dare to say that they do not feel “neither men nor women, but something else”, one might wonder how the presumed genetic predisposition to infidelity plays a role in these cases or if it is really in line with sex and gender.
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