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Original post by icdjabtjk
Im not stretching. Im saying if you say your partner sleeping with other people is ok then why do you have the need to "make a commitment" for them not to sleep with other people whilst you are together?

All I get in response is "breaking the commitment is bad" "you're breaking a promise" "youve broken the trust and that's why it's bad" etc which does not answer the question. No one has been able to give any reason as to why that commitment to not sleep with other people whilst your partner is with you should exist in the first place if your partner having slept with others is not important.


It doesn't matter if your partner has slept with anyone before, since who they were and what they did before they met you is not your business - but once you've got together and agreed to be in a closed relationship (ignoring open relationships where it all gets a bit more complicated) you've committed to being monogamous with that person - so to sleep with other people in a closed relationship constitutes lying to the partner. The two are completely different and to try and suggest people should be ok with cheating because they're ok with their partner having a life before they met suggests you don't really have an argument why people should be virgins before getting together; it's a false-equivalence that requires you to not be able to differentiate between being single and being in a relationship.
Original post by icdjabtjk
You never answered my question, I asked why have an agreement that you shouldnt sleep with other people whilst you're together in the first place? You reply "because it's breaking the trust!" I ask why do you need to have a trust based agreement that you will not sleep with others during the relationship if your partner sleeping with others does not matter. You said "im happier monogamous" that hardly answered the question, it was just a contradiction.

My question is if your partner having slept with others does not matter why do you need to have an agreement with them that they will not sleep with others whilst you're in a relationship with them?

You also mentioned about a "contract" entering in force once you're in a relationship but again the question is sidestepped, why is your partner not sleeping with others part of that contract if them having slept with others does not matter?


Literally, you can't be this stupid. Oh my good God. Please tell me you're winding me up. Your comprehension skills can't be this bad, or you couldn't type proper sentences.

Someone, please back me up here, I feel like I'm going mad with this guy.
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Original post by Mankytoes
Literally, you can't be this stupid. Oh my good God. Please tell me you're winding me up. Your comprehension skills can't be this bad, or you couldn't type proper sentences.

Someone, please back me up here, I feel like I'm going mad with this guy.


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Reply 243
Original post by Alaric III
That's a different matter, that's talking about the betrayal of trust and emotions. If the marriage is monogamous and both parties initially agree on that, yet one year later one breaks this agreement despite it being against the other person's wishes - that is betrayal of trust. It bearsabsolutely no reflection on her sexual past prior to the agreement.

In fact I'd go as far as to say that if a woman were in a position of inferiority in a relationship (ie. virgin while her husband is not) she would be more likely to cheat. There'd always be an underlying feeling of 'missing out'.

Then again, perhaps she wouldn't, but her sexual needs would always be less satisfied than someone who has already done all the experimentation she wants to do in her life.


That is some really awful logic. Anyway, it's not true. Virgins almost never cheat on their husbands, because they saved themselves for that special someone who truly matters to them and are happy with their choice.

Read through this study for empirical backing:

http://socialpathology.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/infidelity-part-1.html
Original post by Stiff Little Fingers
It doesn't matter if your partner has slept with anyone before, since who they were and what they did before they met you is not your business - but once you've got together and agreed to be in a closed relationship (ignoring open relationships where it all gets a bit more complicated) you've committed to being monogamous with that person - so to sleep with other people in a closed relationship constitutes lying to the partner. The two are completely different and to try and suggest people should be ok with cheating because they're ok with their partner having a life before they met suggests you don't really have an argument why people should be virgins before getting together; it's a false-equivalence that requires you to not be able to differentiate between being single and being in a relationship.


Again you didnt answer the question but answered as if I had said something different and mentioning how breaking trust and lying is bad again. Without being able to address what I said anywhere, my question is why have this agreement of your partner not sleeping with others in place to be broken, or not, in the first place, if sex does not matter.

"but once you've got together and agreed to be in a closed relationship" Why do you want to agree to this if your partner sleeping with other people does not matter?

It is not a false equivalence or a lack of "argument" it is a question which so far no one has been able to answer, but instead sidestep and talk about how breaking trust is bad, without addressing my question as to why should this agreement be in place in the first place.

If you dont understand let me give an example. "my partner and I agreed she shouldnt eat cheese, she ate cheese so i dumped her" "why did you have that agreement for her not to do that in the first place?" "because it's breaking the trust and wrong that she went against our agreement!" see, the last line doesnt make sense.

So now if you understand that, if you say your partner having slept with others does not matter, why do you need to have the agreement that they should not whilst you are together?
Original post by icdjabtjk
Again you didnt answer the question but answered as if I had said something different and mentioning how breaking trust and lying is bad again. Without being able to address what I said anywhere, my question is why have this agreement of your partner not sleeping with others in place to be broken, or not, in the first place, if sex does not matter.

"but once you've got together and agreed to be in a closed relationship" Why do you want to agree to this if your partner sleeping with other people does not matter?

It is not a false equivalence or a lack of "argument" it is a question which so far no one has been able to answer, but instead sidestep and talk about how breaking trust is bad, without addressing my question as to why should this agreement be in place in the first place.

If you dont understand let me give an example. "my partner and I agreed she shouldnt eat cheese, she ate cheese so i dumped her" "why did you have that agreement for her not to do that in the first place?" "because it's breaking the trust and wrong that she went against our agreement!" see, the last line doesnt make sense.

So now if you understand that, if you say your partner having slept with others does not matter, why do you need to have the agreement that they should not whilst you are together?
You're actually just dense aren't you?
Original post by 41b
That is some really awful logic. Anyway, it's not true. Virgins almost never cheat on their husbands, because they saved themselves for that special someone who truly matters to them and are happy with their choice.

Read through this study for empirical backing:

http://socialpathology.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/infidelity-part-1.html


Do you have any better sources, considering in that one (quote from link) "the conclusions are based on the characteristics of roughly 24 women".

I would hope any students would know that's way too small, without even getting into the problem of relying on people who are dishonest with their partners being honest on a survey...
Reply 247
Original post by UKIProud
The ideal alpha right wing male (like Nigel Farage) has impregnated many women, even risked STDs and is essentially a man slut.

The ideal right wing woman remains a virgin till marriage, or possibly even death.


The alpha man finds one woman, makes a good choice finding that woman, creates a family with her and focuses his time on greater pursuits, like a business or politics. Exactly how Nigel Farage has done, the opposite to what Nick Cleggg has done. Look at the two extremes to see what kind of man someone should be.
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Original post by Mankytoes
Do you have any better sources, considering in that one (quote from link) "the conclusions are based on the characteristics of roughly 24 women".

I would hope any students would know that's way too small, without even getting into the problem of relying on people who are dishonest with their partners being honest on a survey...


Search that blog for infedility, he writes quite a lot about these kind of social issues.
Original post by Alaric III
You're actually just dense aren't you?


you actually have nothing intelligent to say, no valid response, either cannot address or cannot even understand what I am saying (I know you tried but failed before), and so can only resort to insults. I hope you get a small amount of satisfaction still though in anything you say despite not being able to properly have a conversation.
Original post by 41b
The alpha man finds one woman, makes a good choice finding that woman, creates a family with her and focuses his time on greater pursuits, like a business or politics. Exactly how Nigel Farage has done, the opposite to what Nick Cleggg has done. Look at the two extremes to see what kind of man someone should be.


No Farage has a harem

http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/nigel-farage-women-pregnant.jpg
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I think he was joking. If not, I've lost a lot of respect for him.
Original post by 41b
I think he was joking. If not, I've lost a lot of respect for him.


No it was for a Belgian magazine a while back.

I have more respect men are meant to be virile
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Original post by UKIProud
No it was for a Belgian magazine a while back.

I have more respect men are meant to be virile


Chimps are meant to be virile. Self control is what differentiates great men from successful men. Then again, Farage is a drunkard anyway. I shouldn't really expect much from him personally. But he has a good heart, unlike the other fools in the business.

Yeah I suppose he's not self controlled then. Anyway, choose your idols wisely. Nigel Farage is the bare minimum of what a successful man should want to be, I think.

Anyway, I'm out for today.
Original post by 41b
Search that blog for infedility, he writes quite a lot about these kind of social issues.


Haven't found much compelling on there... seeing as "part one" had a survey he admits is totally inadequate, I'm going to assume this evidence just doesn't exist.
Original post by icdjabtjk
you actually have nothing intelligent to say, no valid response, either cannot address or cannot even understand what I am saying (I know you tried but failed before), and so can only resort to insults. I hope you get a small amount of satisfaction still though in anything you say despite not being able to properly have a conversation.


Coming from a woman's viewpoint, you sound like you're so far up yourself that you've turned inside out...

Are you trying to say that if you met the perfect women for you, you would let her go simply because she had the audacity to sleep with other guys *gasp* in the 21st century no less *double gasp* before she met you??

If so, then good luck finding yourself a girl who can stomach the misogynistic bull**t that you're coming up with.
Original post by meygagagan
Coming from a woman's viewpoint, you sound like you're so far up yourself that you've turned inside out...

Are you trying to say that if you met the perfect women for you, you would let her go simply because she had the audacity to sleep with other guys *gasp* in the 21st century no less *double gasp* before she met you??

If so, then good luck finding yourself a girl who can stomach the misogynistic bull**t that you're coming up with.


If a woman sleeps with other people then she isnt the perfect woman for me. You sound pretty up yourself tbh to be telling me what I should want in a partner, I dont tell you who to date or what you should find attractive. I dont go around telling anyone that or judging anyone's desires. I am not misogynistic, I dont hate women at all. I dont hate women who have 10000 sex partners and work in porn, I could be friends with someone like this and like her, but I wouldnt want to marry her. I have the right to choose a partner who is right for me and to follow my sense of attraction. To label me as someone who hates women just because you cant stand my personal wants is a bit delusional. But thank you for wishing me luck in my life and relationships.
Girlfriend wasnt a virgin I was. got over it in a week
Reply 258
Original post by Stiff Little Fingers
It doesn't matter if your partner has slept with anyone before, since who they were and what they did before they met you is not your business - but once you've got together and agreed to be in a closed relationship (ignoring open relationships where it all gets a bit more complicated) you've committed to being monogamous with that person - so to sleep with other people in a closed relationship constitutes lying to the partner. The two are completely different and to try and suggest people should be ok with cheating because they're ok with their partner having a life before they met suggests you don't really have an argument why people should be virgins before getting together; it's a false-equivalence that requires you to not be able to differentiate between being single and being in a relationship.


He isn't saying that the closed agreement ought to be broken but rather that the rationale for the closed agreement is flimsy. I never thought about it his way before but he has a point.
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Original post by Mankytoes
Literally, you can't be this stupid. Oh my good God. Please tell me you're winding me up. Your comprehension skills can't be this bad, or you couldn't type proper sentences.

Someone, please back me up here, I feel like I'm going mad with this guy.


I am going to put our conversation into simpler terms, so that maybe you can understand that you're the one who's not understanding things and going wrong.

Me: "If you say that your partner having slept with others doesnt matter, why do you need an agreement in place that they wont sleep with others whilst they are with you?"

You: "that is completely different because it is a bretrayal of trust, you dont own your partner before they are with you but whilst they are with you, you can enter into an agreement together, like a contract which only comes into force when you're together, so if you are in a monogamous relationship then them sleeping with others becomes a betrayal"

Me: "If you say that your partner having slept with others doesnt matter, why, when you get together with them, do you include in your "contract" you have with them, that they should not sleep with other people? I understand that breaking any agreement is a breech of trust, but why do you bother to specifically have an agreement for them not to have sex with others if you also say that them having had sex with others should not matter?"

You: Omg I have already ansered this you are so stupid

You havent answered it, everything you said actually sidestepped the question I was asking. Can you see that?

For example if you cant understand I will replace "sex with others" with "eating cheese" to take you out of the context of relationships but with exactly the same line of questioning (because I think so many people are so conditioned to view relationships in one way, they are not able to process it logically, but get confused when I question it and sidestep my actual question, as if I asked something else entirely which they already have an answer for). Ok? so...

A: "If my partner eats cheese before we are together, that's fine, I dont own them before we are together, they can eat what they want, however once we are in a relationship we can enter an agreement that my partner should not eat cheese. I am however completely fine that my partner has eaten lots of cheese before, this doesn't bother me and it shouldn't matter"

B: "But I don't understand, if you say that it's fine that your partner has eaten cheese, it shouldn't matter, then why once you are with them do you feel the need to enter into an agreement that they should not eat cheese?"

A: "They are completely different scenarios, one is a breach of trust, you are trying to compare two completely seperate things, you can't own your partner before they are with you, but once you are together in a relationship with expectations for your partner not to eat cheese, there is a betrayal if they go against it. But them having eaten cheese before being with you absolutely does not matter one bit. In fact it can be very good that your partner has eaten cheese before they are with you, it's good for people to experiment with food, to feel nutritionally satisfied, not curious on food they have missed out on, everyone enjoys food, there is nothing wrong with it."

B: "But if your partner having eaten cheese before they are with you is fine, why do you have the need to have an agreement for them not to eat cheese whilst they are with you?"

A: "omg you are a moron I've explained this so many times already".


No, no one has explained it. The answer I've constantly been given is "no they are completely different, one is a breech of trust etc". No one has answered the question: If you say that your partner having had sex with others does not matter, why are you also against them having sex with others whilst they are with you?

"because it's a breech of trust..." is not a valid answer.

I hope people can understand this now.

And BTW Mankytoes, despite you calling me stupid, saying my comprehension skills cant be this bad etc (which I find bad because I think that I am not the one unable to address what I myself see as a simple question) which is a bit of a letdown on your character, before you saying this I found you fairly civil to speak to compared to others, despite finding that you did not answer my question. So I don't want to argue or attack, but I hope you can understand what I am saying and see that you didn't really answer my actual question.

This isn't an "argument" it's a genuine question I am curious of the answer to.
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