LadyConstanze
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ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt Now see I am exactly the opposite. I'll go out to dinner with any male who appears to be a good dinner companion, and yes if he invites me I expect him to pay. But it's dinner, nothing more to me, and I make that so clear up front. If I said I've been out to dinner with hundreds of men, I don't think it's an understatement. Some I have invited, which means I have paid. There have been a few who have tried to preempt that, but I make arrangements with the wait staff upfront so I pay and then they get a marvelous (and usually well earned) tip. The only exception to this is with my sub, I invite us out, he pays, but this is a long standing tradition, and he knows what to expect. (Also, he is one of the few males I specifically cook for on occasion.) I don't see someone paying for my dinner being an act of prostitution, since the chances of me putting out are quite nil. To be honest, I do not think we are so opposite in that, I feel the same way and I make it clear in advance that I do not think about "putting out", if I ask somebody out for dinner I don't expect the person to "put out" - I invite them because I enjoy the company and like them. I did pay a few times as a student because of some sense of pride and the guy acting as if I owed him favors, sorry but not for a dinner, no matter how fancy, that's a bit of an insult and I didn't mind living frugally just for paying the bill and flashing the finger without flashing the finger. In case I invite somebody it's just that, pleasure of the company, no hidden agenda and if somebody invites me I expect the same. Seriously, the idea that I "owe" somebody because I took time out to go to dinner with him, that just strikes me as arrogant and deluded. Do I really look like I couldn't afford to feed myself?
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