# Adultery Poll
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 3, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347 "2010-11-03T17:18:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/1 "2010-11-03T17:18:11Z")
So, please check all that are true for you. This is an anonymous poll, so feel free to be honest.
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/2 "2010-11-03T17:28:15Z")
Not sure I understand how to fill out the poll. I have never cheated on my current S.O., and never would. I have cheated on several past S.O.'s So, am I a “yes” or a “no?”
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### Author:  [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/3 "2010-11-03T17:32:28Z")
I haven’t cheated on my partners.
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/4 "2010-11-03T17:37:46Z")
> [@Procrustus](#):
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> Not sure I understand how to fill out the poll. I have never cheated on my current S.O., and never would. I have cheated on several past S.O.'s So, am I a “yes” or a “no?”
First question would be a yes.
Second question would be a no.
Sounds like a serial cheater as well.
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/5 "2010-11-03T17:39:53Z")
> [@Wilbo523](#):
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> First question would be a yes.
> Second question would be a no.
> Sounds like a serial cheater as well.
Yes, but reformed.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/6 "2010-11-03T17:42:05Z")
Never cheated, would never consider it, have declined invitations.
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/7 "2010-11-03T17:42:27Z")
I will die before I cheat on my wife.
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### Author:  [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/8 "2010-11-03T17:45:36Z")
“Have thought about it” as in “fantasized” or as in “given it serious consideration”?
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### Author:  [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/9 "2010-11-03T17:53:54Z")
Never cheated on a previous boyfriend or my husband, ever, and would never. Have broken up with guys because I’d rather be with someone else.
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/10 "2010-11-03T17:58:46Z")
> [@Renee](#):
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> Have broken up with guys because I’d rather be with someone else.
I don’t think that’s even in the zipcode of cheating.
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/11 "2010-11-03T17:59:46Z")
> [@Norse](#):
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> “Have thought about it” as in “fantasized” or as in “given it serious consideration”?
Fantasized.
Giving it serious consideration would be in the realm of planning on it.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/12 "2010-11-03T18:00:10Z")
Not sure how to answer the poll. There were a couple of times when I was the cheatee. And there was a period where I claimed to be exclusive, with several women.
Those days are over.
These days I’m dating a lot of women, but keeping the sex at bay for now.
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/13 "2010-11-03T18:09:12Z")
There’s an excluded middle - “I have not cheated because I love my SO” and “I have not cheated and I don’t love my SO”.
I have not cheated on my SO, and I do love her, but that’s not the reason I haven’t cheated.
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### Author:  [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/14 "2010-11-03T18:14:54Z")
I answered “haven’t cheated b/c I love my SO”. However, I have thought about it. Not thought about actually doing it, or planned to, or wanted to, but thought about it as in “would I ever? could I ever? how would my life be different if I did? am I the type of person who could do that, and could I do it to her? and if I did, how would I ever do it? business trip? coworker?”
That type of thing.
And I cheat on my hand with my wife all the time.
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### Author:  [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/15 "2010-11-03T18:18:37Z")
> [@corkboard](#):
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> However, I have thought about it. Not thought about actually doing it, or planned to, or wanted to, but thought about it as in “would I ever? could I ever? how would my life be different if I did? am I the type of person who could do that, and could I do it to her? and if I did, how would I ever do it? business trip? coworker?”
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> That type of thing.
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> And I cheat on my hand with my wife all the time.
This.
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### Author:  [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/16 "2010-11-03T18:23:48Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> I will die before I cheat on my wife.
Ewww…necro-Skald.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/17 "2010-11-03T18:45:47Z")
Please define “cheating”. Is it cheating if she is the one holding the video camera?
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/18 "2010-11-03T18:47:50Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#):
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> Ewww…necro-Skald.
I have to go to a meeting. Can I get you to beat yourself silly and then hurl yourself into the firepit?
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### Author:  [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/19 "2010-11-03T19:02:15Z")
I admit it, I am a registered member of the Straight Dope.
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adultery-poll/559347/20 "2010-11-03T19:40:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Please define “cheating”. Is it cheating if she is the one holding the video camera?
Only if she’s watching the replay on the camera.
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