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

[Nope]

I chose other because even the definition you used could be just a casual interest or a more negative concern. I know I am getting nitpicky but I just want to make certain I answered the question correctly

Well this doesn't make sense to me.  You said that if your previous partner had a history of tricking people into bed then it would concern you in a negative way.  You said you find your partners sexual history also to be something you find interesting.  You're concerned and interested about your partners sexual history yet you still didn't vote yes on this poll.

It makes sense to me.Lol I don't care if someone had numerous partners. Most of the people who are answering no probably mean that the number of partners don't bother them. The same people would be concerned if they discovered their lover lied to get people into bed or broke their word to be faithful so should they answer yes, also? The answers will be depend on how the respondents define the word care.

[robvalue]

Yeah, I'd read it as partners and stuff.

Whether they've hacked someone up during sex or cheated a bunch of times is a separate question to me.

I did once go out with someone who I knew had cheated on a previous partner. I thought I could deal with it... maybe it could have worked, but this time it didn't. She got bored of me

[Longhorn]

I answered other just to feel cool

[paulpablo]

Well this doesn't make sense to me.  You said that if your previous partner had a history of tricking people into bed then it would concern you in a negative way.  You said you find your partners sexual history also to be something you find interesting.  You're concerned and interested about your partners sexual history yet you still didn't vote yes on this poll.

It makes sense to me.Lol I don't care if someone had numerous partners. Most of the people who are answering no probably mean that the number of partners don't bother them. The same people would be concerned if they discovered their lover lied to get people into bed or broke their word to be faithful so should they answer yes, also? The  answers will be depend on how the respondents define the word care.

Oh ok, my point with making this poll is that if you use the standard definition of care, then everyone cares about the sexual history of their significant other.
The original poll that pauloroberts made was overall vastly talking more about the sexual history of his girlfriend relating to what websites she was on, the sex of the partners she had done things with, the type of sex she was having with her partners, and the age she was when she did it.
So sexual history isn't defined in general as JUST being about the number of people the person has slept with and in the original post pauloroberts made he also wasn't just talking about the numbers of people his girlfriend had slept with.

I think that everyone to some degree would care about at least some of the things pauloroberts mentioned and have some personal opinions and standards relating to them.  For example the type of sex someone is having. Someone else just mentioned that they would care if their significant other enjoyed beating their partner to death during intercourse, that's exactly what I mean, any reasonable person would care about that. Pauloroberts happens to care if his partner had anal intercourse at one point and that's up to him if he cares about that then it's his opinion and his standards.

Basically I think some people have attacked the pauloroberts post so aggressively to the point where it's resulted in unreasonable statements like people saying they just simply do not care at all about their significant others sexual history I don't think it's a realistic outlook.

It might be accurate to say that you care less about your significant others sexual past than pauloroberts seems to.

[John V]

People should care about a partner's sexual past for the sake of STDs (or STIs or whatever they're calling it now) if nothing else. 

[Dystopia]

I answered no and as a general rule it is my criteria.

I would mind only if something like STD's and similar issues were at risk, but that's an exception to the rule.

If the person in question cheated or tricked several people this would cause some adverse reactions but it's because of trust, confidence and loyalty - Not because I think having more sex makes you a less worthy human.

I think this question is important to men because my male friends often discuss how many sex partners their date material should be allowed to have before them.

[Exian]

I'm answering this poll as if we are to assume "care" means jealousy and personal principle, which I think is what's almost universally understood by the question, and excludes issues of STDs and scenarios where your partner may be suppressing homosexual or heterosexual feelings (I look at these things as a given).

So, my answer is "no".

[paulpablo]

I answered no and as a general rule it is my criteria.

I would mind only if something like STD's and similar issues were at risk, but that's an exception to the rule.

If the person in question cheated or tricked several people this would cause some adverse reactions but it's because of trust, confidence and loyalty - Not because I think having more sex makes you a less worthy human.

Again I'm confused as to why you would vote no.

As I already said in the original thread which got this conversation going only a small part of it was about the actual numbers of partners a person has.
And surely most people would agree that someone's sexual history or sexual past is more than just a numerical issue.  It can range from what a person liked, didn't like, which type of sex, what sexuality they classed themselves as, fetishes so and and so on and so on.

So the question never was to begin with "Do you think having more sex makes you a less worthy human." 

So if cheating and trickery were a part of your partners sexual history you would care about that yet you voted in this poll that you don't care about your partners sexual history.

I think the main point of confusion here is that some people are basically saying sexual history = the number of people you slept with.

But I see it as a much more vague term.  I see it as being the history of sexual things in someones past.  What they liked, diskiled, who they liked it with, how many, where they liked it, when they liked it.

[FatAndFaithless]

Then perhaps you should remake your poll with clearer choices, if you think so many people are misinterpreting them.

[paulpablo]

Then perhaps you should remake your poll with clearer choices, if you think so many people are misinterpreting them.

No it's not the choices, it's the interpretation of the phrase sexual history.  And I'm not assuming people are having a wrong interpretation of it, it's just a phrase used to describe something so I think in this case an interpretation is subjective, it can mean different things to different people.

As I said previously to me sexual history means more than just a number, it's a persons whole sexual past.