To be chased is by far more powerful.

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I like chasing ladies on the beach, then catching them, then having us lie on the beach blanket together.

I like a lady's "demure" giggles LOL

Well to be fair that would be the hunt or more in these terms the chaser. Seems to be that the chaser always has the advantage of choosing who to engage and where to engage them while the chasee just has to last longer than the chaser's pursuit. Still a lot simpler than having to lodger the camp whenever the chaser comes over the hill with twenty thousand Zulu warriors

I've heard from plenty of guys that they enjoy being the one who asks someone out...and suppose I cannot speak for every female but I've never thought it should be guys have to ask out girls and never the other way around. Though I know on okcupid whenever I sent the first message I got no response. Can't say I have ever really been 'chased' by anyone usually when guys I like have expressed interest I jump on it not play games and act like I'm not really interested and hope they chase after. I've never really understood that game.

Closest thing to being chased I've experienced wasn't enjoyable at all...gave a guy my number to meet him and get to know each other at a later time, it was at a bus stop so we didn't get much time to talk..certainly not enough time for me to commit to a relationship with him. Then he just started non-stop aggresively texting, demanding to know why I didn't text back as quick as he was texting me, repeating how he misses me and trying to get me to agree I was already his girlfriend. When I repeated I wanted to get to know him better first the texts only got worse and even more frequent...so I texted back I decided not to meet him and that I did not want anything more to do with him. I mean his behavior there demonstrated he'd be much worse IRL if he didn't get his way immeaditly.

I'm rarely either the chaser or chasee in any meaningful sense. But the way I see it, it's ultimately about the outcome. I think that rejecting people is a real downer and I hate doing it. It's also a real downer if I really really like someone and get rejected. So the more of those experiences you have, the more you feel lousy about your position in it all.

On the other hand, I asked a guy out, I initiated at my own pace, and he reciprocated and asked me to do things. So therefore, I enjoyed being the chaser, because there was no Chase.

If a guy asked me out and I didn't feel conflicted about it, then I would enjoy being the chasee. Otherwise, it sucks until both people get on the same page and the situation resolves itself somehow. I don't like the uncertainty, but then, of course I would say that because I have generalized anxiety disorder.

To reject doesn't hurt as 1/10th as being rejected.

Be real, people.

This is interesting.

I don't think I've been either. Any relationship I've got into has been one of mutually indicated interest from the start. I have been asked, once a relationship was established, why I was playing hard to get. I wasn't, but thanks to a mix of obliviousness, passivity and low self-esteem I may have made it feel like I was delibrately not responding to signals, as opposed to not seeing them or taking them as such.

Frankly, if I had to 'chase', I wouldn't bother. I wouldn't think anyone who'd play such games would be worth the candle. It would be a turn off. But then, as I understand it, there's people out there who enjoy the chase, the 'conquest', whose ego would be wounded if it was too easy and they didn't get to 'win'.

I mean, I've had phone and internet dating messages ignored or conversations let drop, but then I've done the same. I don't count that sort of thing. Similarly, I've ghosted people as relationships flailed and died, but I'm not counting that either.

I can only speak about what I know which is hetero situations. Mostly with male chasers and the women being chased.

In polite societies the person being chased is in control/more powerful. They choose yay or nay. Of course you must be lucky enough to have something that attracts the chasers, that is looks, personality, perhaps money/status. But if you lack these things you usually don't have chasers and therefore no special control. This is in the courtship phase btw. Once married the control is back up in the air depending upon personalities and cultural norms.

In more agressive society, some of this still exists but more risks are involved. A larger portion of the chasers do not accept 'no'. What control/power that exists is mainly in the earliest stage. Later on the male often assumes power by physical means.

That was funny.

OK! Break it up! Everyone back to your corners for a breather.

Sadie Hawkins Day is cool!