If you're not religious why do you care if your partner has sex with other people?

I understand many on here are deeply religious and want to obey their religions teachings on faithfulness in marriage. But a great many here are atheists like me or if religious don't go to church or take it serious.
So if you remove the religious aspect what are your objections to your partner having occasional sexual fun with other people?
If they practice safe sex are they really doing any harm and they could learn things that would improve your own sex life?
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  • There really is no such thing as safe sex , condoms fail and you can still get STDs wearing them. I don't think you will be happy until you get aids and give aids to someone else.

  • Morally speaking nothing is stopping you at all

  • It has nothing to do with religion.

  • It's about being loyal shouldn't have to

  • I only want my partner to be with me and only me. If she were to have sex with someone else than that clearly says a lot about her. He/she cheated because they didn't think you were enough. It's a selfish act. I'm not religious too, but being an atheist doesn't equal "promiscuity".

  • Idc. I encourage it

  • Because it's also about loyalty. And going around cheating on someone goes against that. Break the bond of Loyalty and you break every other bond there is.

  • I don't care. We swing

  • I actually can't believe IQs have dropped this low. Wow I'm amazed

  • Religion has nothing to do with not wanting to be cheated on

  • Right, open marriage or polygomy should be a choice and nobody should judge people who do...

  • she can do who she wants

  • This is dumb. Committment is to a person sexually not God. You also said " many" on here are religious and said a " great many" aren't. Your whole way of thinking is warped. Go start a society where your way of thinking goes unchallenged, see how fast it goes nowhere.

  • I am a religious person, but I understand those who are not religious but care. Being jealous and loving a person's spouse is a good thing, because we do not even share our favorite items with others, we want the woman we love to belong only to us emotionally and also physically

  • Its the fact that it's 2 concious beings. Religion has absolutely nothing to do with it. This is true for most animals all over the world. Penguins for example have mates for life and they don't have a religion. The fact that this is your opinion on religion shows how caged you are. Try something new your way of thinking is ancient.

    • Most birds cheat on their partner. A single nest will contain eggs fertilized by several different males.

    • There you go everyone is different but you don't see penguins asking birds why they cheat. Let people live. Its okay if you are a little envious but just ankowlegde that negative feeling is coming from

    • *Its coming from you

  • Because where has their mouth been, i have no idea. It's a germ thing for me.

  • Try to think of it this way, You just bought a brand new car that you have always wanted to own & you look forward to driving it everyday. Now it goes the same for the guy or girl that you are in a relationship with, you two are exclusive to one another. Also sharing your partner with another person can cause unhealthy jealousy & could lead to mistrust & other issues in your relationship.

    • That doesn't make sense. In this analogy your partner is a piece of property. If both partners are in agreement then who cares?

  • It's just a natural ingrained instinct. Having sex with others greatly heightens the chances that they'd want to leav eyou for another perhaps. Also, when you're in lov eyou want to be each others one and only, nobody wants to share, it's extremely natural to mate guard. Men want to know that any children she has are his, and women want to know that it's only her children he's sharing resources with. It's the fear of losing those. So any risk adverse behaviour reduces the risk of the harmful outcomes. Investing in someone so deeply is a very vulnerable act, nobody is going to do that with someone who is more likely to stray, unless they can never fully invest themselves anyway because of various reasons, usually deep routed trust issues.

    • Religion was also mostly used as a way to control. There are so many contradictions involved in it that to me it's obvious. It's not all bad but it's not all good either. Being religious doesn't imply someone is good, and being atheist doesn't imply someone is bad. Plenty of non religious pieple don't cheat etc, while plenty of people who consider themselves Catholic or whatever religion do.

  • Cause I'm not into sharing. If I wanted to share I would just get a friends with benefits

  • I am not a religious fanatic. I do have my own personal spiritual beliefs. With that said, I am either in a relationship monogamous or not (friends with benefits, open relationship etc.). If not in a monogamous relationship what's to keep either of the two persons from finding someone else? With me there's no splitting hairs. We're together or we aren't.

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