Dating means roughly "meeting up". However, it's not a meeting between friends or, say, a business meeting, but rather a get-together between two or more individuals driven by two different intentions: either to find a new partner or to get laid.

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To ensure these intentions or plans, however, various factors play a role in dating that the individuals involved have no influence over. For instance, if one of the two individuals shows up at the so-called "date" and doesn't live up to the other individual's expectations visually and/or personally, then neither of the two intentions can be fulfilled (although there are exceptions here). But conflicts of interest between the two (or more) participants could also cause the date to go ahead pointlessly, and that isn't always immediately recognizable. If the individuals' intentions differ, the get-together can become an incredibly unmanageable, complicated knot in which both (or all) parties could lose themselves.

Clear agreements can happen in dating

Dating should therefore first and foremost be enjoyed with caution. Before it starts, the participating parties should have a rough idea of which intentions are at play.
To ensure success in dating, the following questions need to be settled in advance:
*is the name of the party/individual I'm going on a date with known to me
*do I know the party/individual personally
*has the party/individual clearly stated their intention
*to what extent does that intention match mine

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The concept of dating can be understood in different ways

Among animals, for example, dating is used for reproduction. Here, attractiveness, individuality or even intellect and intelligence play no role, which simplifies things considerably for this species.
When it comes to our own species - humans - the matter becomes an extremely complicated and difficult affair. The human species is first divided into two categories: the attractive and the unattractive. Attractive people usually have it easier when dating. The participating party in a date with an attractive individual is initially dazzled (which, by the way, happens unconsciously), and intelligence plays a less important role in the first phase of dating. The unattractive, on the other hand, mostly have it harder. They can't score points with looks at first impression and have to impress with humor, intellect and eloquence.
If dating also takes place between a man and a woman - that is, two different sexes - countless mistakes and misunderstandings can occur that, as far as is known, occur less often in same-sex dating. The fact that women assume men know what women want, and men assume women know what men want, is risky and can lead to at least one party getting hurt.