MaxE wrote:
In my dating experience, intimacy happened if the other person (female) wanted it, irrespective of how many times she and I had "gone out". Experienced women typically know what they want, and if they find themselves with somebody they're OK doing it with, then they aren't going to be bound by some arbitrary rule.
The sample size would be too small and not sufficiently randomized to come to a conclusion based on an individual’s own experience. There doesn’t appear to be particularly good research on this topic. However, I came across this:
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One 10,932-person study from 2014 found that:
- 47.9 percent of people in a relationships waited a few weeks
- 35.5 percent had sex on the first date or within the first few weeks of dating
- 9.9 percent had sex before the first date
A smaller, 2,000-person survey from 2017 by Groupon found that men waited five dates on average, while women preferred to wait nine dates. (Researchers didn’t collect data on nonbinary folks.)
https://www.healthline.com/health/healt ... x#takeawayMaxE wrote:
Of course if they have issues related to having sex, such as past experience of SA, they may have trouble being comfortable having sex with anyone, but I seem to have never run across that when I was "dating".
They might often be more cautious, but I doubt they’d usually “have trouble being comfortable having sex with
anyone.” Personally speaking, it needs to be with someone I truly care about and know very well, but I’ve always felt like that. I was just unaware about red flags and relationships in general in the past. I’d be comfortable with the right person. Knowing whether they are the right person would require way more than three dates for me, especially if I just met them.
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