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Before even addressing the moral question, cheating is just stupid. If you're happy in a relationship, don't cheat. If you're not happy, get out of the relationship.
Cheating is for losers, people who aren't happy with their situation, but don't have the balls to change it. Either shit or get off the pot.
And what is there to gain? All you'll do is make yourself, your partner and often the other party feel lousy. Even if it does result in a relationship with said other party, the whole thing is going to be stigmatised by the way it started.
As for it being natural, that depends exactly what you mean. It occurs in nature and because of human nature, but it's no more a beneficial trait than overeating. Pain is nature's way of telling us not to do that. If we were supposed cheat, it wouldn't hurt so much. Promiscuity is fine in a promiscuous society, but in an agricultural society with surplus resources - which is where all of us in internet land live - your genes are much more likely to be selected if you choose a partner well, stay faithful to them and make sure that your children are well raised, well-adjusted and well provided for.
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"No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."
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