With all the discussions about what men and women should do on dates, who should pay, and what the expected outcomes of a date should be, I think we've missed the real point. Why do People go on dates in the first place? Let's discuss the actual purpose of dating and come to an agreement on that, and maybe things like men paying when a man and women go out, and what a woman should expect to "put out" in response will begin to make more sense.