[Dominic]

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Dom, I like your posts most of the time and you seem like a decent guy. You're way off here.

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I certainly see how a girl's sexual past is relevant when you're 19 years old and that history is very recent.

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Who are you to tell anyone else what is and isn't important to them and their relationships?

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When you're 30 or 40 or older, you'll come to realize that it just doesn't matter. No one "owes" you their complete life history upon meeting you or starting a relationship with you.

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No, they don't owe anyone their complete life history upon meeting someone or starting a relationship with them. If the relationship continues, however, and one person wants certain information (like previous relationships, #'s of people the other's slept with) about the other, they're generally entitled to it.

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Your views are naive, unrealistic and come from a lack of experience. Believe it or not, your sense or right and wrong is neither as absolute as you think it to be, nor is it all that unique.

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Actually, your view seems to be the naive one in this situation. If Joe's sense of morality -- whatever that may be -- is important to him, who are you to decide what information about the person he's going to marry Joe is entitled to? And who are you to say that it isn't important?

Like I said, Dom, I do like you, but you sound like a self-righteous know-it-all in this thread.

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Um, you forget one very important thing here: Joe's not asking for the information - his friend wants to volunteer it. Now, if Joe ASKS his friend if he has heard anything, then I guees it's up to his friend to tell Joe about some unsubstantiated rumor that Maria is a lyin' whore.