Is Traditional Dating Becoming Obsolete?
Traditional
dating has now become nontraditional i.e., a thing of the past.
It
used to be that a man asked a woman out and also paid for the date, they also
made the first move — but that no longer is the case.
A
new study has found that with changes in times dating has also changed.
More
than 20,000 straight college students were surveyed and they were asked about
their most recent date with someone they are not in a relationship with, who
initiated the date, who paid during the date and who started sexual contact.
Researchers
analyzed the data from the University of Kansas analyzed found that only about
one-third of the dates that is 36% involved a man where they asked a woman out,
paid, and then initiated sex.
That
means more than 64% of those surveyed dates put aside those old-school traditional
dating ways.
The
researchers also found that women have a high chance of having sex on the first
date if they are the ones to ask the man out, which is the main reason why 88% of
people agreed that it is pretty OK for a woman to ask a man out.
Dating
has evolved to be equal between the sexes, where women are more likely to pay
on the date and initiate sexual contact.
A
study author Sam Kendrick has said that hookup culture is where casual sex
encounters start the courtship process.
“In
a hookup culture, you are not liable to go on a date or enter a committed relationship
to have sex,”
This
classic idea of dating as part of courtship before any physical contact takes
place started in the 1920s. So, it is quite understandable that 100 years
later, dating has evolved to be an equal endeavor.