Barash spoke exclusively with The List about her vision for tomorrow.

Women have affairs, notes Barash, as ways to explore themselves without any accompanying guilt.

Empowering affairs are about opportunity and options.

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When sex drives the affair, it is understandably passion at the core.

If a relationship disappoints, adds Barash, “the ‘other man’ is an option.”

As Susan Shapiro Barash told The List, “the risk/reward is obvious.”

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And that’s because an affair can have more benefits than you’d imagine.

And that’s a good thing.

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