Do you care about your significant other's sexual past?

[paulpablo]

I was reading the random slut-shaming troll thread and scrolling through it I was a little surprised at the number of people who seemed to think that it mattered at all. It doesn't. I couldn't give half a care about who I'm datings sexual past. I never even ask unless it comes up in normal conversation (which of course it normally does anyway, because sex is a pretty interesting conversation topic.) Why does anyone seem to care?

I care and I think most people do.

First of all I don't think the thread that guy started was slut shaming.  The words slut or anything of that kind weren't mentioned.  He wasn't shaming the girl because no one on this forum knows who the girl is, we don't even know who he is, he's pretty much anonymous and so is she.  He actually didn't even say there was anything inherently wrong with her, just that his beliefs and hers don't gel.
Secondly I think the question, do you care about your partners sexual history, is such a vague question because there are obviously some scenarios in which any rational person would be worried about concerning their partners sexual history.
Some examples would be if your partner told you they had a history of molesting children throughout most of their life and they had never been caught and they still look at children the same way now.  Personally that would matter to me.
Another example is if I was a woman and dating a guy who told me he had sex with men all his life but was now a Christian and wanted to date only women, I'd be concerned due to his sexual history that he was actually a repressed homosexual and using me as a means to try and portray himself as a straight man.
Or even if the girl said she had a fetish for cheating, she'd cheated on all of her previous 10 boyfriends multiple times and she loved the feel of doing it.  If she told me this then expected me to trust her if she said she was just visiting a male friend or something like that I can't honestly say I would.
Or even if the scenario is less extreme and by sexual history what we're really talking about is just numbers, how many people the woman or man has had sex with.  This doesn't matter much to me.
If we're talking just purely about the amount of men a woman has slept with I would only really get concerned if the number was over 150 or around that area. 
It actually works both ways though, because I do care slightly when a girl tells me she's had threesomes or lesbian sex of if she's on fetlife.  I'd take preference to a kinky experienced girl over a none experienced seemingly non kinky girl.  It's not a huge deal but the girl definitely gets some kudos from me if her sexual past is quite extreme so I'd say I also care about sexual history in that sense also.
And these are just my standards, I don't hold it against anyone for being a so called prude, I wouldn't hold it against someone who says they have no care about their partners sexual history I would just find it hard to believe that they don't care in the slightest.