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If you're in a monog relationship: Assume you are traveling, and have the option to cheat with great sex with a super attractive stranger. Assume no risk of STIs or pregnancy, and assume you never see the stranger again, your partner never finds out, no downside. You:

would do it
16.5%
might do it? hard to know
18.1%
would not do it
48.3%
Not in monog relationship
17%

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5:22 PM · Nov 17, 2022

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wouldn’t do it. if i make a monogamous commitment, i mean it.

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All of the things mentioned are kind of irrelevant in the reasons I wouldn’t… because I would feel bad about a form of LYING and betrayal. ♏️

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Everyone writing “would not do it” is virtue signaling online and has no idea how they would act in the moment

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It’s not a question about the partner finding out — it’s a question about how strong the conscience is of the cheater. Do you act on values or on feeling? If values, then the answer is easy.

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It’s much easier to be honest and act with integrity if actually are honest and act with integrity… wife and I are in a monog relationship so that’s how it is 🤷 It’ll make for a fun story when I get back home 😂

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depends how impulsive I was that moment. It would be an ethic breach if I committed to being monog. But with no chance of being caught I could fall down a trap of entertaining the thought until its at a critical deciding moment and lack of action decides for me and it happens.