Hey Ray,
Could you elaborate a little on your date plan, logistics etc and I will propose some suitable dialogue?
I've got a date with a girl who I find drop dead gorgeous (from the usual opener, sincere compliment and asking for her number). So I propose to meet her at a mall with a beautiful rooftop area overlooking the sea. I told her we'll order some takeaways and find a spot on the roof to hang out. I want to escalate quick, but she ends work pretty late so I don't have a lot of time to work with (and she has work the following day too). I want to:
1. Build a connection fast.
2. Escalate physically.
3. Kiss her and set up a following date a few days later for her to come to my place.
4. Grab a drink at a nearby bar before we call it a day? (Don't know if I should, seems extraneous after setting up date #2)
Initially, I wanted to suggest to her that we'd grab a drink at my place before we end the night, but I really don't think the logistics works out (the mall is too far from my place, and it'd be really late by the time we're done with this). That's why I'm thinking of proposing that she come to my place to hang out and watch a movie (or something) following the first date.
My problem is that I have practically no experience escalating. I've had intimate experiences before (no sex though. I'm quite a prude that way), but in those situations the escalations were really initiated by girls who were really into me (they'd drop hints that "I was really sexy" or just held eye contact with me till I "got it"). In situations where I'm with girls who don't initiate anything until I make the first move, I usually blow it because I freak out (the last time this happened was when I made a sudden move to kiss a girl after being "platonic" for a whole night and freaked her out. She reciprocated eventually, but I still think it was pretty sloppy escalation). I don't want to leave this date up to chance, so I want to figure out a watertight "escalation plan" when a connection is built.
So I'm thinking about:
- How to prime a girl for kissing before actually kissing her.
- How to kiss a girl (I guess you have to coax that "look" out of her first?).
- A pretext with plausible deniability for a girl to come to my place.
I could use some ideas about sub-communicating the idea of intimacy to a girl before I actually try and escalate.
Willie Beck has a really good in-field video, but I'm hoping to get more perspectives of how it can be done so I can find one that better meshes with who I am.