Do you care about your significant others sexual past with a poll.

[Exian]

Well, he wouldn't be jealous of her, his ego would be jealous of her past partners. And I mentioned caring on personal principle, but when you analyze why those would be your principles, jealousy comes up again, doesn't it? Why else would you care, other than STDs and all of the other scenarios I mentioned, that wouldn't involve jealousy. Not that those aren't good, responsible concerns, but that is a different question.



What I mean to say is it is illegal, whether you care or not. The matter is out of your hands in most of those scenarios.

You might possibly be correct that the root of feelings of disgust at certain sexual activities or amounts of partners might be due to jealousy but that shouldn't be assumed as a fact.

If someone told me they wouldn't do the things I've done sexually based on principles I wouldn't assume they were just jealous.

Yes being a pedophile is illegal if you care about it or not.  I don't see what that has to do with anything. I'm saying it disgusts me, I care about it, I wouldn't date a woman who had a sexual history of being involved with children in that sort of abusive way.

Ok, I see what you're saying. I answered the poll with the assumption that jealousy was at the root, for myself. The poll asks "Do you care about your significant other's sexual history?", under that assumption, I answered no. Had the question been "Do you care if your significant other has committed sexual crimes in the past?", I would have answered "Yes". But why would that be the question? I think that would be a given, and anyone who doesn't care might not want to disclose that. It would get interesting if the question weeded out somebody who wouldn't care, but I think, for the most part, everyone would answer "yes", and it would be a terribly uninteresting conversation. Definitely non-controversial. So, assuming jealousy at the root makes for a more subjective and interesting conversation.