Lockjaw

Likely hood of the relationship being something more in the long run. Sorry but depending on the age if a person has had an inordinately high number of partners one would be hard pressed to assume that they would instantly be a ok with settling down. That's not being on some moral high horse that's being painfully honest and realistic about the situation. Now that does take into account a couple of things.
1) That person obtained those high numbers without cheating on their significant other. Needless to say if they obtained the numbers while they were supposedly in a commited relationship they aren't going to meet my standards, call it being overly moral(which is ludicrous), but I call it simply not wanting a person who has made infidelity a habit.

2) As an individual you have a different standard for sex i.e. done in a commited relationship and not just a whirlwind night of humping with an annonymous person. I've never viewed sex as the later and I would prefer my mate didn't as well. If they don't view sex as something special in a commited relationship that's fine, but I'm not that kind of guy. There are plenty who are, but it's not me. I don't think that's being narrowminded I think that's just having an honest idea of what you want and settling for something else only undermines the relationship from the get go.


Now if given both those things are true it would be hard to reason out WHY a person that had an "above average" number of sexual partners. As if they contended the sex was in a commited relationship but just had LOTS and LOTS of those relationships over the years, that would show a trend that I don't feel I should be wasting my time with. That one person just isn't who I'm looking for just as I'd imagine I wouldn't be who they were looking for if our beliefs on something that basic were so drastically different.

At least that's how I see it. He might have totally different reasoning behind his stance.