Hi everyone, I was inspired to ask a question by seeing a previous thread about the no sex before commitment game. Please note I’m not asking this for myself, I have a wonderful boyfriend. But it’s something I’ve speculated about many times and that I currently have friends dealing with.

Say you’re in a committed relationship with a man. You break up and see other people, but both of you eventually decide to go out on a date again because you still have feelings. (Moral judgments about getting back with an ex aside, because the break up could have been for all sorts of reasons) would you still want to follow the RP model of waiting for commitment and exclusivity to sleep with him again? Or would you not follow that model because you’ve already slept with him before and now have nothing to gatekeep?