In every relationship, there comes the moment of truth: should I, or shouldn't I reveal my love-life secrets? There are three simple ways to deal with the dilemma: yes, no and partially. Each have their pluses and minuses. You also need to keep in mind how much you want to know about your partner's love-life secrets. How much you can handle might be a direct proportion of how much you should reveal. You'll also have to consider your partner's personality type, and what their reaction could be. Here are the three options to help you decide if you should reveal your love-life secrets:

Reveal:

Pluses: Honesty is sometimes the best policy, and a relationship built on lies or omissions could end up suffering from not revealing your love-life secrets. Also, not everyone has such a sordid past- everyone's got a love-life history and those experiences have helped shape us. Letting your partner know more about you, even if it's embarrassing or painful, could help bring you closer.
Minuses: Sometimes too much information really is too much. Revealing your love-life secrets could haunt the other person with unwanted images or comparisons. It could also breed insecurity in the relationship, damaging it- or change the way your partner sees you.

Don't Reveal:

Pluses: What your partner doesn't know won't hurt them. It can be good not knowing, and living in romantic, ignorant bliss. It could be seen as a complete fresh start, together, without any baggage to juggle. It also saves you both from an extremely uncomfortable chat, which may be too much for either of you to handle.
Minuses: The longer you're with your partner without revealing your love-life secrets, the higher the chance that something from your past will appear. Whether it's an ex, a one-night stand or a friend mentioning a tidbit in a conversation, you could be faced with an upset partner asking 'why didn't you tell me about this-?'

Halfsies Reveal:

Pluses: It's nearly the best of both worlds: you can reveal some of your love-life secrets without overwhelming your partner with all of them. This is useful because you can pick and choose which moments to share, and which to keep private. You can also leave out the parts of your love-life history that you're embarrassed about.
Minuses: It can backfire on you, when you're pretending to reveal all of your love-life secrets and the omissions pop up unexpectedly.

The best thing to keep in mind when you're deciding whether you should reveal your love-life secrets is to ask yourself what you're comfortable in knowing about them. And what you're very comfortable not knowing.