to her door. This is the classic date scenario of the last forty years, and some of the rituals from yesteryear still are upheld today. The man is most definitely the provider of the date, and the woman the receiver.Today however, the popular notion of dating seems to have changed. Through things such as the sexual revolution of the womens movement, and a generally more liberal society, dating has become quite different as I see it. A date can be initiated through mutual friends, or meeting someone at a party. Others times you will know the person from work or school or the building that you live in. People who date now are usually friends first and tend to know each other fairly well, at least on a superficial level. Dates are not made by awkward phone calls, and dates are rarely official. By this I mean that a guy would not usually call up a girl and ask her if she would like to go on a date. He would ask if she would want to hang out or meet up somewhere. Simply hanging out with a girl and a group of friends, or going to a party with a girl could be considered a date. The whole situation is more laid back and relaxed by making dating less of a formal thing. Sex has become more of an open thing, and men and women both engage in it on dates as more of a physical pleasure, rather than an act of love. In the classic view of a date, a woman can generally go on as many dates as she wants without thinking about expenses because the man is most often the one who pays for the date. The man however, must be somewhat conservative with his dating practices, unless he is rich. One must wonder why this is so. Men are usually seen as providers in long-term relationships, and since some dates could lead to a long-term relationship, men are therefore expected to begin providing right away. It is fundamentally an expectation of women that men will pay for them on a date. For a man not to do so would not only be seen as bizarre, it wou...
