# What fraction of your sexual partners do you regret sleeping with? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 10, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fraction-of-your-sexual-partners-do-you-regret-sleeping-with/631123 "2012-08-10T20:22:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![benbo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@benbo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/benbo1)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fraction-of-your-sexual-partners-do-you-regret-sleeping-with/631123/81 "2012-08-14T10:55:41Z")
2 or 3. Since I love to label people & experiences, let’s take a trip to the bedroom while a sexing is in progress. In 2 or 3 cases, I had what I call ‘Spielbergs’. Why that label? Because they just couldn’t shut up & stop directing - “move your hips around”; “ok, now lift the leg this way”; “you can touch there for only a few seconds”; “oh, you doing that reminds me of my ex”; “I’m so embarrassed how these sheets look” - and on & on. They talk so much it takes all concentration to finish the job - something which should be fun becomes an ordeal. Thus, the Spielbergs, 2 or 3. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fraction-of-your-sexual-partners-do-you-regret-sleeping-with/631123/82 "2012-08-14T15:23:53Z")
What _kind_ of pudding? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fraction-of-your-sexual-partners-do-you-regret-sleeping-with/631123/83 "2012-08-16T17:24:30Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > What _kind_ of pudding? What kind do you want? ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fraction-of-your-sexual-partners-do-you-regret-sleeping-with/631123/84 "2012-08-16T17:40:00Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > What kind do you want? Chocolate. Or peanut butter with choco chips in it. That sounds good. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fraction-of-your-sexual-partners-do-you-regret-sleeping-with/631123/85 "2012-08-16T17:41:27Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > Chocolate. Or peanut butter with choco chips in it. That sounds good. I have directed the flying monkeys to deliver a bowl of each, along with a mojo-increasing amulet I’ll need you to give to Mitt Romney during the Republican National Convention; I need his charisma increased. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fraction-of-your-sexual-partners-do-you-regret-sleeping-with/631123/86 "2012-08-16T17:56:10Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I have directed the flying monkeys to deliver a bowl of each, along with a mojo-increasing amulet I’ll need you to give to Mitt Romney during the Republican National Convention; I need his charisma increased. Erm. No deal, no deal. :: waves hands :: You _do_ know I’m an exmormon, right? I’d sooner gnaw my own foot off than lift a finger to increase Mittens’ mojo or charisma, or much of anything really. I’m also a dog lover. Strike two for Mittens. And a woman who prefers not to birth any babies. Strike three. I’m out. BTW, to answer the OP, I’d say probably something like 90% of my sexual partners I regret. If I had known how terrible most men are at foreplay (and taking instruction), I probably wouldn’t have agreed to sleep with most of them in the first place. I rarely ever felt used or cheap or anything like that, just … _cheated_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fraction-of-your-sexual-partners-do-you-regret-sleeping-with/631123/87 "2012-08-16T17:57:30Z")
There is one I can’t decide if I regret or not. On the one hand the sex was awesome. On the other hand she was freaking nuts. I guess since she didn’t boil a rabbit, I should put her in the “don’t regret” column. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fraction-of-your-sexual-partners-do-you-regret-sleeping-with/631123/88 "2012-08-16T18:07:41Z")
There’s a handful that I have no idea what I was thinking. Call it 2%. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fraction-of-your-sexual-partners-do-you-regret-sleeping-with/631123/89 "2012-08-16T19:33:25Z")
I, too, only regret the ones I \*didn’t \*sleep with. I’ve missed a couple of golden opportunities that I kicked myself over later. But I had my fun when I was younger and I can’t say I regret any of it. There’s been nobody else since I met my lovely wife 18 years ago, and I don’t regret that either. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fraction-of-your-sexual-partners-do-you-regret-sleeping-with/631123.md?page=4)