If a guy pays for an expensive dinner does he expect to get sex at the end of the night? Guys, do you get mad if nothing happens?

Sorry for the bad quality. This was the only pic from dinner and he didnt even focus it well lol
Sorry for the bad quality. This was the only pic from dinner and he didn't even focus it well lol
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  • Context is everything.

    Let's be real and direct here: (single, hetero) men don't take women on dates unless they want to have sex with the woman in question. If you don't understand or agree to that statement, then there's no point in any further discussion.

    Given that truth, a woman has no business accepting a date with a man who she already knows she won't have sex with. If sex with that guy is out of the question, then turn down the date, no matter how nice the date itself might have been. OR, tell him that you're only interested in being friends, and that if he'd still like to go on the date, you'll happily pay for your own expenses. That's being honest and respectful.

    Assuming you accept the date offered, you also need to consider who the man IS. If you're a 7/10, and he's a 9.5/10 and has other girls looking at him all night, and you go on a date with him, either you have sex with him that first night or you'll never hear from him again (and maybe he posts negative stuff about you online). You're already dating out of your league, and he's got lots of options, and he doesn't need to wait - and he won't. If you don't want to sleep with him at the end of the date, then don't go on the date.

    If you are a 7/10 and the guy is a 7/10 - or you're a 5 and he's a 5 - then that guy might HOPE for sex on the first date, but he's not EXPECTING sex. What is IS expecting is that, assuming there are no SERIOUS red flags that you discover about him, that you're going to sleep with him by the 5th date at least, and hopefully more like the third*. In other words, he expects that you respect him enough to realize that sex is a normal and expected part of dating as an adult, and while he understands that you need some time to get to know him and vet him, he also needs to know that YOU understand that you can't just keep using him for dates and holding him off for weeks or months - UNLESS you are up-front with him AND you are willing to pay for your expenses on the date, and he agrees.

    If you are stringing a guy along and happily letting him pay for dates, bad things are likely to happen. You might get left on the side of the road, or left at a restaurant or bar with the bill, or whatever, because you used that man and didn't respect him.

    Unless you are willing to have your "dates" be walks in the park, or sitting at home watching TV and eating Taco Bell, then, YES, dates are going to be transactional. If a man is feeding you at a restaurant and entertaining you (movies, activities, etc.), driving you, and paying for incidental costs like gas and parking, transactions are happening and money is leaving his wallet - OF COURSE he's going to see those kinds of dates as transactional. If you can't accept that reality, then either ask for a no-cost date or don't accept the date in the first place.

    What ISN'T okay is to use him for entertainment and dining with no intention of coming through with your end of the bargain - which means sex.

    *More time/more dates can be acceptable if the girl is young (under 18) or still a virgin.

    • Not every guy is a pervert. You paint a very bad picture of men here.

    • @shaysh87 fr I hate these weird guys in their 30s and up saying every guy only wants sex or that we can't be friends with girls. They are just lonely and way too desperate lol

    • How do you get to know someone without dating them? Your saying give it up because it’s only fair to him because he bought dinner?

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  • So I will be honest with you when I got back into the dating game, after 20 years of marriage and divorce... I thought it was totally not like that. I mean just because I bought a women a nice dinner didn't mean I had the right to expect anything from her.

    Well several dates later after wasting almost a grand on dinners, and burning through 6 women who wasted my time and only getting laid once in two months I figured out I was going about this like a fucking loser. These women and their insecurities, and fear of commitment and just down right wasting my time with their games.

    So I stopped doing the meet for coffee for the first date, then dinner on the second date, and started the lets go for walk in the park, then to the zoo or to a minor league baseball game, or outside concert or festival... all very cheap dates that literally cost me nothing. I found this approach to be much more successful and by the time we got to me buying dinners for them I was already getting laid and dating a very interesting women.

    So I would say no just because a guy buys you dinner does it mean he should expect you to have sex with him... but a real gentlemen who knows how to treat a women should be able to charm her and take her out for cheap and have great time and get laid without having to buy her a dinner.

    And ladies, if you have no intentions of hooking up with the guy... then insist on paying for your own meal. Even if he doesn't take you up on the offer its the right thing to do. Once date is over then text him the next day and say you don't think it going to work out before just ghosting me.

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  • It is perfectly reasonable for a straight guy to desire sex at the end of an expensive, fancy dinner with a beautiful woman.

    It is another however to exect, demand, or feel entitled to sex at the expense of 1) her consent 2) her morals/values 3) what options her state provides her regarding reproductive services

    I do not understand how 'men' can blame women for both of the following: 1. 'spreading her legs' too much
    2. Not putting out on a mere dinner date, (I don't care if it's the 1st or 5th)

    Now we can argue this way and that, none of them revolve around what women want on a date: the ability to genuinely connect with someone on several planes (intellectually, morally, humor etc).

    If someone thinks getting to know someone is a waste of money, then heaven forbid they have to deal with an unplanned pregnancy. Seriously, we need to have these conversations early and often before sleeping with someone.

  • I can imagine that a guy looking for sex and a hook up would buy a meal and expect sex.

    I can imagine that a guy that is looking fur something a little more might also want sex after sharing a nice expensive meal.

    But depending on how much he likes or feels he would like to get her more he may wait because she says not tonight.

    But I don't really think that changes whether a guy would or would not like sex.

    Sex can be satisfying and pleasant...
    Who wouldn't want to finish off the night right...
    Just my 2cents

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  • All I would expect is to be treated humanely and not ghosted.

    Some guys do expect sex, but I think they are assholes. Like if you think it's just about paying for sex, get a hooker.

    Personally, I don't mind being generous when I like someone. And I'm kind of a foodie, so I enjoy having good meals every now and then, and don't mind paying so my date can enjoy without feeling financially pinched.

    However, going all out on an expensive dinner when you just start dating someone may not be wise. It raises the stakes too much. I want to know that the girl likes me for me, not just because I bought her something fancy.

    So it's better to save the expensive dinners for when you're in a steady relationship, for special occasions like anniversaries, birthdays, Valentine's Day, or just spur-of-the-moment-why-not. When you already know how you feel about each other.

    Better to be low-key when you're just starting out, and you're not sure how things are going to go. Of course, sometimes when things seem to be going really well early on, you might splurge, although that can be risky... but it should all be based on how you feel in the given moment, not what you expect in return.

  • Some I wouldn't doubt it but not all

  • It depends on the guy’s approach to dating.


    For me personally, I’ve been in 7 long term relationships and I’ve only been sexually intimate after establishing a committed exclusive relationship. This keeps sex meaningful.


    If I was dating someone without exclusivity established, I would just be testing the waters to see if we click—I wouldn’t expect sex. I wouldn’t be expecting anything other than common courtesy.


    The question would be, “Do they pass my vibe check?” Not, “Are they going to sleep with me after this?”


    As for expensive dinners, unless I’m making 7+ figures and I have a ton of money to blow, I wouldn’t be taking someone out to an expensive dinner unless we’re already a couple or if it’s some group event with friends. Treating someone to dinner should be a generous altruistic gesture—not a bargaining chip.

  • He should expect nothing! It would make me almost a prostitute. Giving sex in return for favours.

    No one should expect anything. Otherwise there will always be disappointment.

  • After one date... not really. Doesn't really matter how much I spent. But if I have seen you multiple times, and spent a bunch of money, I will start to expect more and more, the more we go out.

    Every guy is different, but the way I see it. If I have been seeing you for over a month, talking to you consistently, spending money on you, doing all the things I need to do, and you still don't sleep with me after all that. Then you aren't taking me seriously or aren't that attracted to me. It shouldn't take you that long to figure out if you want to sleep with someone if you are a grown mature adult, that isn't fucking around with a bunch of others on the side. Pretty simple.

    It's a waste of my time and money.

  • I don't think he should expect anything, that said there have been guys that will say "You know how much that was, I expected something." As if dinner has anything to do with it.

  • No idea, but he better not because you can't buy me.

    • You're free... than why need to buy? Lol ✌️

    • @Sam_25 No, I mean you cannot buy my body. You have to be in a relationship with me

    • You're such a wonderful person 😘

  • He shouldn't expect it but she should offer it

  • I'm glad most (like 90%) of the guys I was with didn't expect anything.

    If they did, I doubt there would be a second date! Lmao.

  • If a girl accepts his invitation to go on a date and he takes her someplace expensive, that's his choice. If it turns out that it's his slimy way of trying to buy sex, he's a creep.

    To take a girl to an overly expensive restaurant, I'd have to like her a lot. We would already be in a committed, sexual relationship. I wouldn't pay that much on a first date without even knowing how well we click. The purpose of a date is to get to know each other and see if we want to continue dating.

    If she offers sex, I'm jazzed. But I don't employ coercion.

  • I don't think they should be mad

  • Most of my first dates were at a reasonably nice, upscale restaurant, not over-the-top but probably $70-100 for dinner for two. I always expected that inviting a lady to a nice dinner meant that she would arrive on time and I would have her attention during dinner. If things were going well, I expected that she wold accept an invitation to extend the date a little bit by having an after dinner drink, either in the lounge at the restaurant or at the lounge in the restaurant across the street. And if things were still ging well, I expected t walk her to her car, hold her hand in mine, and if she seemed receptive, I would give her a good night kiss and tell her that Ihoped to see her again soon. Those were all of my expectations. While I may have fantasized about the possibility of sex, I accepted that it was just a fantasy, probably not a healthy thing to do on a first date, and I never made any hint or suggestion that I wanted us to do that. The last time that I had sex on a first date was around 1979 and I have matured significantly since then.

    I don't have first dates anymore, because I am now living with the lady who met me for dinner in December, 2020. And I expect that we will eventually be married.

    • Yay! Happy for you two!

    • @Massageman Thank you, sir!

  • I don't expect s** in the first place cuz that's not what I'm there for. I don't mind paying for an expensive dinner. But if a guy has that expectation/intension, most likely he's not the one. Find a man doesn't want you for s**, but wants you for the time you two spend together

  • I go for dinner for the good food, company and conversation, and that’s it.

    Irrespective of what she expects, she will not be getting sex.

    she can ask and plead, however it’s food and company only.

  • That's generally how it used to work for decades, yeah.

    That's why I say nowadays, men should stop being these pathetic-ass simps and b*tches, because women nowadays are no longer "ladies" and WILL use a man just for free dinners and money, with ZERO obligation of continuing the relationship further.

    It's not that a woman has to feel pressured into sleeping with a man if he pays for her, it's that women who DIDN'T want to sleep with a man, wouldn't accept such prizes in the past, because they actually had self respect. They knew the game and would pay for their own dates and food if they didn't feel a connection there.

    But today? Women will exploit a man, take all his money, and then accuse of him of "toxic masculinity" for expecting a kiss at the end of the night after dropping $300 on her worn-out ass. And frankly, it's the man who's an idiot for still thinking it's the 1960s, anyway.

    I've ALWAYS had this rule: If I wouldn't spend that amount of money on a close friend, I sure as HELL ain't spending it on a stranger I just met. It's "Current Year." Women can pay for their own sh*t and I'm not handsome enough to think most women would want to date me just "for my company." A small few would, but the rest ain't getting a penny from me.

    And no, I don't try to bribe my way into a woman's pants, nor have I ever.

    https://www.youtube.com/embed/lOxb_SW4Cfg
  • Yeah he does I heard it a hundred times. But
    it's because their intention isn't to marry you
    off the bat! That's why you should NOT be on
    TINDER an expect a husband. If you be on
    TINDER expect a PIG or a DOG.
    WOOF WOOF!
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  • If a guy expects sex for dinner, tell him to pay an actual sex worker, it's going to be a lot more than the $20-50 he spent on you. Women are not cheap whores, his entitlement doesn't mean he deserves anything but your company at a nice meal. End of story.

    • Exactly. Hopefully he gets a undercover cop

  • no, but that depends on the human you are dealing with. If you don't like that humans expectations, work on yourself so you are attracted to a different calibre human.

    choose wisely...

  • If he gets mad because he didn’t get any after an expensive dinner, then he’s no good. Forget him 😂.

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  • It'd have to be quite an occasion, and I'd have to have had you go to some lengths to earn my trust, before I'll agree to spending that kind of money on one meal. In which case, it's more about celebrating the moment, whatever that moment is. I'd try to make sex an entirely separate issue. If I wanted to discuss sex at all, I'd do so separately.

    That's the problem with the world today: everyone is so frickin' cynical!

    I can't do a single nice thing for any woman, purely out of a desire to be nice. It's automatically interpreted as some demand for sex; and I get treated accordingly. It gets really insulting! I open the door for her, basic courtesy, and she gets nasty; because she somehow thinks I'm asking her for sex!

    Another will suddenly get all defensive after I do her a favor, as if to say she doesn't want to have to repay me with sex, when I never even stated that as a condition, and will get confused that I tell her that was never the case. And then she'll get mad, thinking I called her ugly somehow!

    It's madness, and it has to stop. Screwls are teaching girls all wrong. This forced sexual context on literally everything is the same poisonous insanity that created Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, and all those other freaks from Epstein Island!

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