What is the meaning of the word philanderer? There are a number of definitions of the term `philanderer' that one can find all of them boils down to one thing. It basically refers to a married male who carries on extramarital affairs with a woman, married or otherwise, whom he cannot or does not intend to marry. Those who read the papers on a regular basis might be familiar with this term. Though philandering takes place globally on a wide scale, not all instances are recorded or reported.

However, from time to time, one comes across news in the papers of bizarre and often gruesome reports where a woman has cut of the penis of her husband because she had caught him red handed in the act of performing sex with some other woman. Unfaithfulness and infidelity are some of main traits of a philanderer... though the matter is open to wide debate. On certain occasions it has been observed that the female partner is the main culprit and her frigidity in bed is the main cause of her husband resorting to philandering. There are other causes too.