So I'm watching The Big Bang Theory and there's a cultural assumption that the third date means sex.

[HerBeatitude]

So does it? Is that the standard convention?

Just interested really.

Oh dear. I think I must be easy

i would really hate to be dating, i don't know what expectations are - i didn't shag DH for 6 months. and if we split up or he popped his cloggs, i couldn't imagine shagging anyone else.

i really do have much sympathy for those in the dating game

Nah - I always put out on a first date [slut emoticon]

lol, I have never "dated", but I'm sure that, if I did, I wouldn't even get to the end of the first date

Phew, am glad to see I'm not the only trollop in town

what is this "dating" of which you speak?
surely, we are English. we do not "date". We hang out with people we fancy until we get drunk enough to make a pass at them, surely? that's how it USED to work anyway....

@ harpsichordcarrier.

I held out for hours on our first date.

Hmm, more wierd shit that mundanes do. I can't see the point of that at all - if you want a shag (as long as the other person wants one as well) have one. If you are the sort who likes to think about it over several dates or indeed wait till you've ot a ring on your finger before you let a finger into your ring, it's up to you, but it should be a choice you and your dates make according to what the people involved want, not arbitratry distinctions other people have made up.

I LOVE the Big Bang Theory though

i always wait.

till the end of the date

lol mamazon.

Dp waited months, ideally we would have waited until we were married but as 6 years on we are still not married perhaps that would not have worked.

I personally shag someone when I feel like it. I shag them when the 'click' comes. I decided a couple of years ago that I am never going to shag someone I don't care about again, and that they must also have given me the impression that they care very much about me.

I actually don't mean dp waited as we have the same values/ morals ( I know people are going to leap on me for my choice of word) when it comes to sex.

We both decided the time was right a good few months after our first date.

I certainly wouldn't shag anybody unless we'd already done it in my imagination ...

I feckin' hope not!! I can't imagine sleeping with someone for MONTHS into a relationship (learnt from last time...)

I think it depends on the circumstances. If you start to 'date' someone you've already known for ages then you already know whether you like them as a person so why wait.

If - on the other hand - you pick someone up in a pub/bar/club/whatever then surely you'd want to know a bit more about them before getting your kit off?!

Though I did once have what was supposed to be a one night stand except I saw the guy a few times afterwards. But I didn't really like him! I just fancied his body!

I met dh at work - thought he was a 'nice boy' - bit too nice for me, really. We've been together 25 years now. I think we went out for about a month before having sex.

But I guess times change!

Sheldon is weirdly hot, isn't he?

I'd do Sheldon on the first night, Wolowitz (sp?) would have to wait a bit longer

But would Sheldon be, umm, proficient?

I'd give Leonard a trial run. And I bet Raj is amazing after a couple of drinks!

I love sheldon
big bang theory is so cool

I waited

at least 4 hours when I met dh

we would have been married 10 years this jan

ugh I couldn't do howard