Venn Diagram Customs:
1950s:
Dates must take place
in a public place
Man always pays for
date
A man gives dates
order to the waiter
No kissing on the first
date
Parental approval
Must pick up date at
her house/Must come
to the door
Women must always
be on time for the
date
Ask your date out by
Wednesday
Today:
Both: Dates may not always take
place in public
Women can be fashionably
Premarital sex
late
Phones as means of
Women may for themselves
communication to
or even their date
set up dates
Women may ask men on
Typical stages of dates; however, it is typically
dating the man that asks the
Encouraged to keep woman
good, clean lives Relationships may take
Going to the movies place online
or to get ice cream Kissing may take place on
are typical dates the first date
The use of pick-up May or may not meet
lines parents on the first date
Men typically pursue Dating more than one
the woman person at a time may occur
The purpose of
dating is for long-
term or marriage for
the majority of
relationships
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