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Dating Without Sex: Why It Usually Doesn't Work

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On Ricardus's post "How to Make Her Want You: Lessons from Marketing," a commenter named Garrett reports being conflicted over a few aspects of what's taught here. In particular, he asks why physical intimacy is needed with romantic partners, and if dating without sex isn't also just as possible.

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Here's the part of his comment dealing with this topic:

Out of curiosity, I've spent a lot of time researching this topic, and there are a few things I fail to understand. Firstly, to get a girlfriend, why must you sleep with them? If you can prove me wrong then I'd be interested to know, but I feel indifferent about this. I feel that everything in life requires balance and in order to get a girl to like you, you should be yourself, be mindful of ways to improve yourself, and strike a balance between acting like a jerk and on the contrary, a 'wet noodle' who is no challenge whatsoever.

Garrett also goes on to say that he feels like other aspects of what's discussed on Girls Chase feel to him like "manipulation," though this is a topic already addressed in depth in " Is Seduction Wrong?," the basic premise of which is that people who lack the drive to improve themselves fear others who do who become conscious of their own actions and strive to perfect them, typically working to censor them and stop them to prevent competition and declining options for themselves (e.g., you will rarely have a successful career woman who's had to tooth and claw her way to success and improve herself dramatically stand and accuse you of being manipulative for learning seduction, though you will often have a girl who dropped out of high school and works at the local taco shop fly into a frenzy over how "manipulative" men like you are, presuming of course that she doesn't actually know you and is instead setting you up in her mind as some diabolical "other").

I won't cover whether seduction is manipulation and whether I ought to censor myself here or not again, although I will note that it does partly come down to where you draw the line - there are certain "dark arts" of seduction, like October Man and like Sexual Power Reversal, that I simply don't teach because it's too easy to do harm to women by wielding these clumsily. So, I do have an "ethical limit;" if I really honestly think it's something that can lead to the average man doing more harm than good, I don't teach it.

What I will talk about here today is if it's really necessary for you to have sex with a woman you want to pursue a romantic relationship with. Can you skip this step and get by with just waiting for marriage?

It's a question I've been asked a number of times on the site, and haven't addressed yet... at least on here.

But, as it turns out, this is actually one of the very first questions I had to discuss - and debate - on a public scale that has to do with sex.

So come with me, and let's have a look at what happens when you do not have sex.

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Vaughn 's picture

Chase I totally agree with your post man! I've been trying to slow myself down while talking and articulating my words, but I feel like I'm moving too slow and I feel like I take too long to speak. Am I suppose to feel like that? What's the right way of doing things slow without it feeling like your a "slow" person? if you catch my drift. Thank you!

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Hi Vaughn,

It's possible you're actually too slow and have swung in the other extreme, but it's more likely that you're just adapting to a new way of doing things. Often when you change something in how you present yourself to the world (posture, voice, movement speed, etc.) it can feel like it's REALLY obvious and you must stand out like a sore thumb.

Much of the time though, if you actually stop and get people's opinions, they'll end up telling you still aren't doing it enough yet.

If you feel like you're being too slow, get a good friend you can ask to assess you and say, "Hey man, what do you think of my movement and talking speed lately? Good, too fast, too slow, what do you think?" Don't give him any hint of what YOU think (i.e., that you're too slow) so as not to influence the opinion he gives you, and just let him tell you the impression he's getting. You might be surprised.

Chase

Sulagna Dasgupta's picture

Hi,
Great post Chase...very well-researched & makes the points clearly.
I run India's first relationships & marriage blog - www.loveinindia.co.in.
My mission is to facilitate more openness regarding the subject in our country.
I didn't quite understand why you said all bets are off if you happen to live in India. Could you explain?
Thanks

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Hi Sulagna,

Partly I've heard from friends who've traveled to India that pickup is quite difficult except in foreigner-friendly places like certain parts of Mumbai or Delhi. Partly I've seen the statistics on how few lifetime sex partners Indian women tend to have. And I've had a lot of Indian guys tell me that "Indian women are not like Western women... they will not just sleep with you!"

Of course, I've also heard this about other countries and found it not to be true (South Korea's a good example; I was repeatedly told how cold and aloof the women are, and instead found them very warm and friendly and even pretty aggressive in each of my visits). Personally, I like Indian women, and I've had some exceptional Westernized Indian women in my life in the past, so I'm withholding any actual judgment until I have a chance to visit the country myself.

Mostly, in that final comment, I was just being facetious ;)

Chase

M's picture

Wow, great post Chase. I wasn't expecting that at all - I somehow imagined that you couldn't be religious at all.

But in your story about the guy dating the girl without sex for 2 years, she was still in love with him the whole time, even after she called off the engagement. I agree that it's just much more natural to have sex earlier, but it's totally possible to make a girl quickly fall in love with you (and you with her) without sex, right? Otherwise, why would that girl still have feelings for that guy?

I don't know anything about the quality of their relationship, but I just don't see why one can't create a deeply loving and enjoyable relationship with a top-caliber girl while waiting, say, a week or a month before having sex. If the girl decides to wait, shouldn't the guy respect that, or does it mean that he's not presenting himself sexually enough? And if the guy decides to wait, the girl can surely be understanding enough to put off her desires for a while. Basically what I'm trying to say is that people can fall in love over the course of a couple weeks, say, without either of them having felt the need to have sex after their first meeting or date. Besides, without sex, isn't there still a difference between love and friendship?

After reading your site and book, I'm not nearly as firm about my answers to any of these questions as I used to be, but am interested to hear your thoughts.

Best,
M

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Hey M,

Some great questions here.

With the former teacher of mine who dated the girl for 2 years - you've got to remember, people get into all kinds of things, relationships included, and then they get comfortable and don't change anything until they reach a point where they need to decide.

My guess with her is that she did love in terms of affection... but not in terms of sexual, reproductive love. That likely died a long time ago. My guess is that she pushed for sex because she knew he wouldn't give it to her, and she wanted to get free and look for a man she regarded as more of a "man." She wanted to be free. I suspect that even if he did give her sex, she'd decide something else was wrong a few weeks or a month later, and the marriage still wouldn't have happened. That's usually how these things go at the end of relationships; the woman starts listing her demands, the man starts racing to fulfill them, and even when he does so to perfection it still ends anyway.

On girls waiting for sex: you CAN indeed have a great relationship with a woman if she holds out on sex for a while, so long as she feels like you're still a sexual man and still will take it the moment you get a shot at it. If the man has opportunities and doesn't take them though, her perception of him changes dramatically.

You can essentially think of there being two kinds of ways a woman can love a man: one is loving him as a powerful, potent, sexual man; and the other is loving him in an affectionate, warm, sweet way. Generally speaking, the faster intimacy happens, the more it'll be the former and the less the latter; the slower it happens, the less the former and the more the latter.

Advantages and disadvantages of the two types? Well, affectionate love actually makes for more stable relationships, as it leads to the woman being in control, and these relationships last longer. The woman tends to be more nurturing and considerate of the man's emotions. When she loves you as a powerful, sexual man, she's not as warm or nurturing, but she has a greater degree of respect for you, a far greater degree of attraction for you, and she's a lot less likely to cheat. She'll also tend to hold you in higher regard than the other men she's dated, as most men fall more on the "affectionate" side of things than the "throbbing hunk of man" side of things.

You might still say there's a difference between love and friendship without sex, but it's pretty hazy. I've seen plenty of "couples" who supposedly were in love without sex, and then suddenly the girl's got a boyfriend and she's telling the guy they were only ever "just friends." Sex changes the dynamic dramatically between a man and a woman, like we talked about in the article on commitment points. The longer it takes to get there, the lower and more subdued a woman's emotions towards a man generally become.

Chase

Franco's picture

I'm in a hurry, but I'd like to throw in an additional comment to what Chase has said here:

On girls waiting for sex: you CAN indeed have a great relationship with a woman if she holds out on sex for a while, so long as she feels like you're still a sexual man and still will take it the moment you get a shot at it. If the man has opportunities and doesn't take them though, her perception of him changes dramatically.

Like Chase said, waiting CAN work... nothing is concrete science involving women's emotions. We can only analyze the common patterns and take advantage of the fact that we most likely know what's going to happen if you do not sleep with her quickly.

However, ANOTHER reason why you should push for sex is that you want to solidify her attraction for you as quickly as possible because, if you don't, it's always possible that another sexy man (possibly "sexier" than you are) can be JUST sexy enough to convince her to sleep with her before you do. Once she has made that decision, all of a sudden you're the shopping guy from The Sad Tale of Shopping Guy

Moving quickly has many more benefits than moving slowly. It's not always the way it NEEDS to be, but it usually has better results in the long run.

- Franco

M's picture

Very cool - thanks a bunch! It seems that the most important thing, regardless of which kind of relationship you want (actually, I guess it's more of a spectrum than an either/or - and I'd also guess that aiming for the middle might be a good strategy for relationships), is developing yourself into a sexy man. It gives you the chance to be the leader of the relationship regardless of how long your girl decides to wait for sex.

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M,

Absolutely. It's worth remembering that a woman's rating of you as a sexual man is relative to her experiences - e.g., if she's always been a virgin and always intended to wait until marriage, and she sleeps with you after 3 months of dating, you'll still be the sexiest and most powerful man of her life up until that point (and maybe forever, if the two of you end up staying together indefinitely).

Conversely, you could sleep with a girl an hour after meeting her, but if she's slept with a guy 20 minutes after meeting him before, you'll still only be second or third best in terms of raw masculine potency.

All is relative...

Chase

Zac's picture

Hi Chase,

I am devout religious guy myself. I studied in religious schools, remember most of the things they teach me but somehow i notice something is wrong. Most of our preachers have forgotten that in true religious context, too, they EMPHASIZE not spending too much time with women, moving fast, marriage and have sex. I would not elaborate much.

I am glad to actually say that we are somewhat grow up something a lot familiar. Reading how you grow up with anxiety, people putting you down with fear, religion, I hope to reach that level of your dating skills, and see the world from a mountainous view. I might not reached there, but i'm pretty confident in my desire to achieve.

Thanks for your religiously expertly FUN, truth BLOG. XD

Sincerely,
Zac

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Hey Zac,

Yes, you're completely right, most people who teach religion lose the true context of it.

The thing with religion is the same thing as politics or anything else; the original leaders tend to be warm, charismatic, inviting, yet still firm and certain, and that's what makes them have such widespread appeal and have a message that spreads so fast. But most people do not ever achieve this style of leadership, and so the ones who come after them use fear to enforce, rather than love.

Fear is the poor man's style of leadership. It gets results, but they are temporary results, and they're grudging results. Whereas, religious leaders like Jesus or Buddha or Moses or what have you typically compel people to action and belief with primarily love and very little fear. People will move mountains when they do so because they are inspired; the motivation is generated internally, and that's the most powerful sort. When they are impelled to do things by threats and fear, however, they only do enough just to not catch the stick.

A great deal of religious instructors breed resentment in their students, rather than inspiration, and that's where much of religious instruction goes wrong (the same can be said for a lot of politicians and political campaigns, office managers and CEOs, and the like). If you've ever had a great teacher, or manager, or any other form of leader who led through inspiration and inclusiveness and compassion, you know how powerful that style of instruction and guidance can be.

Chase

Greg's picture

I must admit, this is one of the best "virgin" articles I've read. You thoroughly researched both sides of the debate, and while advocating for one side, you didn't berate the other.

As a 24 year old male virgin, I admit it's very difficult to date and find women who share this moral value. My previous girlfriend of 2 years shared this with me, and she is 26, and I now realize the rarity. In my increasingly frustrated dating search, it seems much like you stated, that I have to go for younger women if purity is important to me.

I firmly believe in this though, and will remain steadfast in waiting for marriage. Relationships can work without sex, it just takes two individuals with ironclad resolve and shared dedication.

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Hey Greg,

Yes, that's part of the solution if you wish to maintain those ideals. You also need to look at how you can put yourself in the best situations to meet those kinds of women; for instance, you're far more likely to meet a woman who's still a virgin in some more devout parts of the American South than you will on either of the coasts or even in the Midwest. South America also used to be home to a lot of more conservative, religiously-devout women; I had a girlfriend from Peru who did not lose her virginity until age 24. But from what she tells me, it's now as open in much of South America as it is in North America.

The other aspect is simply moving quickly to get marriage happening with a girl you like. You have an advantage over many other Western men in that you know exactly what you want (i.e., marriage, a family, etc.), which makes it relatively more easy for you to screen and move through the courtship phases with clear objectives and metrics for a woman in mind (as opposed to most Western men, who hem and haw their ways through relationships, uncertain, unsure, and unguided in their desires). So optimally, you should be spending a lot less time on the courtship phase; I'm sure you've met women you clicked with immediately before - with these women, your best bet is to simply consider this divine inspiration, and get marriage in place so the girl is yours.

Chase

Estate's picture

Hey Chase,
So I read in an earlier article how you said starting out, you averaged meeting one good girl you clicked with in about 10-15 approaches, but that figure improved as you got better and were able to spot the right targets. That all makes sense.
The thing I've struggled with lately is similar, picking the right girls. I guess I'm looking for girls with relationship material. The last girl I dated started out great but it turned out she had a boyfriend so I quit it. Thats just not what I'm looking for. The previous several girls were similar or had been sleeping around.
I know some will say I didnt create enough attraction to make her choose me, which may be true but at the same time I'd rather meet someone with some potential rather than competing with her long term boyfriend, its just not a situation I personally am looking for.
Do you have any advice on looking for the type of girl you want?

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Hey Estate,

There are a few articles on this site about choosing girlfriends:

... although it almost sounds to me that your problem isn't what to look for, but the kind of women you're meeting.

Typically, this comes down either to how you've designed yourself and designed your approach with women (i.e., you're attracting the wrong kind of woman by default), OR it's that you're meeting women in the wrong places (e.g., nightclubs instead of day game, etc.).

If you look at how you're meeting these women, do either of those strike a chord (you've geared yourself toward meeting a certain kind of girl who isn't what you want, or you're meeting women in places not conducive to meeting quality girlfriend candidates)?

The answer's going to tend to be one of those two. Once you know what it is, you know what you've got to change.

Chase

Maxz's picture

Totally right on Chase.

All the girls I have lost are girls I moved slow with, and did not give them what they wanted meaning sex. After I discovered this site, I learnt my lesson in the move fast department. Every girl I meet these days I'm trying to move fast with. From getting them out on a date and so on.

But a question I had for you Chase is I'm still having trouble in the sexual escalation part. How do you get intimate with a girl on date number one and not prolonging dates to two or three before you bed a girl?

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Hey Maxz,

Good question. There are a bunch of scattered articles on the site covering this, but I'll get a wrap-up / comprehensive post on this up.

Chase

The Tool's picture

Excellent Chase, one of my favorite reads thus far (even though every read of yours is extremely insightful.) Although I am cathololic -not devote- I did quite enjoy the bit of destruction of the catholic arguments its about time it was discussed and called out.

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Cool to hear it's one of your favorites, Tool. Yeah, if you look at Jesus's message, it's intuitive and all the parts lock into each other nicely, but the folks who came after him spent a long time constructing dogma that did not have anything to do with anything he said or taught. This annoyed me to no end in Catholic school, but I've been out of the religious environment for so long that it isn't anything I give much thought to in a long time.

Funny to see this old conversation I used to have with Catholic school teachers dredged up again here on GC...

Chase

kneek0's picture

Chase,
Again very interesting article. One of the best I've read on your site, and that is saying a lot since they are all great. I grew up in a similar environment to you, but took me a little longer to figure things out than you did.

I admire your view on life, and right now you are my biggest role model. Just wanted to let you know that.
Keep doing what you do!

Thanks again for all the great resources,
Kneek0

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Thanks Kneek! Great to hear you enjoyed the article so much... and I'll do my best not to let you down as a role model; big responsibility, I know.

Cheers,
Chase

fox21296's picture

You've really outdone tons of dating concepts out there.

It's funny too, I was passionately making out with a girl on Halloween who is really good friends with my friend, "the sweet guy", and she was flirting with him. I showed up, she began kissing me and more, and he was puzzled beyond belief and thought she was a slut now and that she is now "not his type of girl"

But what's funny is that he's known her for years, I only knew her for 15 minutes, and yet I found a side of her he didn't ever see... He didn't want that side of her to exist.

This article brings up problems of sexuality in America. Men who believe that sex is taboo, or shows a girl is a slut... Hell, hearing guys reactions to hot girls can be disturbing.

More importantly, your article brings up the manipulation to keep this image in the minds of people, such as the people speaking of that girl who caught herpes and so sex is bad for everyone. Just incredibly eye opening, imagining the scale such manipulation of facts or putting facts out of context can do.

People who talk about things they do not know about seems more than annoying now... it seems dangerous. Just follow one wrong piece of advice like gospel and your whole life is changed...

One must watch who influences them I guess. Thanks Chase, a very awesome article!

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Howdy Fox,

That problem is not limited only to North America; you see it all over the world. I saw it just as much in Asia and South America, and I know it's all over the Middle East, and even in Europe. In much of Africa they only want to marry virgins, so I'd imagine it's just as bad there too.

There's a lot of misinformation about sex, and a lot of individuals with expectations that they project onto other individuals, which often leads to women putting on a front and being for a man whoever it is they think that man wants or needs them to be. Women waiting until they're on their periods to have sex with their boyfriends for the first time, to convince them they were virgins; women having hymen reconstruction surgery to be "virgins" again; women "forgetting" most of their past lovers to keep their partner count down; women telling men, "I would NEVER...!" and, "Oh I cannot BELIEVE that girl just...!" when they did the very thing in question a week ago. All this happens because a woman thinks a man will judge her and condemn her if he knows the truth; and often, she's right.

Getting wrong opinions or beliefs about anything can be very harmful for your life; I've long disliked emotional or one-sided arguments for this reason - you know you're not getting the full picture. A good question to ask whenever someone tells you someone is "bad" is: what's the other guy have to say about this? And a good response to someone telling you something is "wrong" is: well, what are the total real consequences for everyone involved if this thing happens and is done?

This is when you get into bucking social / moral / ethical norms, and you need to bear in mind that if they're pervasive and have a lot of advocates, they usually serve some kind of cultural purpose that you may not have figured out yet. In that case, it's best to sit down and figure out what purpose they serve and why so many subscribe to them in the first place.

For instance, in the case of no sex before marriage, this belief system leads to more stable families, which lends itself to greater levels of production, and more successful societies. Once sex is freely available before marriage, you begin to see a breakdown in the family structure, which is what happened in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, and we're seeing it right now in the West, too. This breakdown tends to lead to disorder and decline, until the civilization is either toppled by better-organized outside forces, collapses from within, or reaches enough of a crisis point that it demands order, and a new, more rigid system comes into place again (until, one day, some generations down the line, the young begin to question why such strict controls are needed, and the cycle begins anew).

No sex before marriage also benefits average men, in ensuring a mate for everyone. In a more natural environment, like the one of the modern West, women revert to natural mating behaviors, and gravitate toward the most attractive men. This means the most attractive men get lots of mates, while the average men get few mates, and the below average men get nearly none. It also leads to greater mate competition among women; instead of each woman having her own man, suddenly women finding themselves competing with other women for the few exceptional men and having to work constantly to influence those men's thoughts in their favor, instead of being able to focus on their own concerns, content in their security.

I'd say, question your beliefs and be careful whom you listen to, but understand where the other side is coming from too, and why its beliefs have survived as long as they have. If the belief system has been successful, it must be beneficial in some way.

Chase

Saturn's picture

Dear Chase,

I really appreciate your blog. I was a virgin a few months ago & making the same mistake of 'moving slow' with women. Then I came across your blog here and life simply changed after that (for the better). Thanks for your wonderful advise of moving fast with women, I am not a virgin anymore. I think this is a very good testimony of your work.

I need your inputs on the relationship of marriage with financial success. You have mentioned in this article that societies which favor marriage are more stable & successful societies. How does this work out at the individual level ? Dont you think guys who are married and are in a stable relationship with their wives would be doing better than unmarried guys (in terms of wealth, career etc.) ? I mean these married guys would focused on building wealth. They wont be spending time competing with other guys for beautiful women. In other words do you think there is a direct correlation between marriage and financial success ? I will appreciate your inputs regarding this.

Ashutosh's picture

Hey chase in your post 'better than the jerk you mentioned that for becoming a geniune man every guy has to go through the jerk phase. Now what i want to ask is can a beginner guy become a genuine man without passing through the jerk phase.? btw @ sulagna me too fro india.nice to meet you :-)

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Hey Ash,

I honestly haven't seen this, and I don't think you can - I think you've pretty much got to go through it.

The reason why is that you don't learn where the limits are until you push them too far, and until you know where the limits are you will always be playing somewhere below them or somewhere beyond them, and never right on them - but the best results come from being right up against them.

That means, you'll have to go through the phase where you push things to far with women, and get thought a dick and a jerk, and then reel it back in. Otherwise, your brain won't get to know the signs that a woman is close or not that close to you going too far and putting her into auto-rejection, and you'll always play it too conservatively and won't be able to maximize your results.

So, when you decide you're tired of being the nice guy, you do have to swallow the pill and go too far to the extreme and be a jerk for a little while - but just keep in mind, that's only one step in the journey, and it isn't the destination.

Chase

Knight's picture

Chase, Wow!
So much is making sense lately through your words. I never expected you to be religious, I can understand though, with my own views. You really taught me so much about Jesus, biology and life in general. This article changed so many of my views.

So much respect.

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Hi Knight,

Glad the article made sense! Maybe the religious background is responsible for my propensity to preach...

All kidding aside, cool to hear you learned a lot - hopefully it's useful stuff.

Cheers,
Chase

Ciab's picture

Definitely one of the most important articles to date, Chase. In the 30 minutes it took me to read it (to fully digest it, and to meander around in my head on it), it took me on a journey.

I went from "What's he getting at, I don't really understand?" to "Oooh, mixing religion and sex, this point of view actually makes sense!"

And then, boom! Marriage, culture, and society. The more I read, the more I started to get the bigger picture. I realized how small the world I'm living in really is. The further I read, the more clicks I encountered. Click, click, click.

To finish it off, there was something I've been wondering. People that are successful, rich, or powerful, people like you, they've got this...way about them. They've got such strong feelings, emotions, opinions on things. It especially comes out in your writing, the way you can make the reader feel as if they're there, and that's the way they feel, the way they think about it.

As an average guy, I don't have nearly the same way about me. My opinions aren't that aggressive, intuitive, detailed, or expressive. Heck, I probably don't even have as many opinions in all as you do on one or two things. I want to know how you developed that way of thinking and expressing (unless it's the way you've always been?), and how I could develop it too.

Great article Chase, keep up the good work

-Ciab

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Howdy Ciab,

I remember sitting there back when I was in college listening to some Tupac thinking, "Man, he has got WAY stronger opinions than me... I feel like I don't have ANY opinions!" It seemed to me that the most compelling and charismatic characters all had these really strong opinions, and they were constantly setting the record straight or "laying down the law" on challengers.

I actually did have some reasonably strong opinions then, but most of mine weren't formed. If I had to put a finger on what solidifies opinions, it comes down to two things: a predilection for not believing anything until you've seen it / done it / tried it yourself, and then getting your findings out there and being made to defend them again and again.

When I hear something for the first time, my reaction is always, "Hmm, that SOUNDS good, now let me go try it and see if it works." And then maybe I find it does, or maybe I find it doesn't. If it does, I'll tell everyone it works, even if that's not the popular opinion, and if it doesn't, I'll tell everyone it doesn't, even if THAT's not the popular opinion.

You'll find that most of the general advice you get is wrong, or weak, or naive. I don't know where it comes from, or why it endures so long, but eventually you just come to the belief that most people never try out anything, and most teachers and preachers about anything and everything are talking out of their butts.

If you look at someone who's successful, he's someone who's in action and DOING stuff. And someone who's in action and doing stuff is getting a lot of hard lessons taught to him by life and experience. So when he brushes up against mainstream advice, which often is wishy-washy and comes from some guy sitting around thinking that this is how it should be instead of a bunch of people going out, trying things, and saying this is the way it actually is, you end up looking at the mainstream advice and saying, "Uh.... no. That's not correct at all."

And then people look at you like I looked at Tupac and say, "Wow, his opinions are strong and well-thought out. Where's that all come from?"

I'd say, success and strong opinions CAN be one and the same: most successful people have loads of real-life experience that forms their opinions for them.

Of course, there are also the "believers" who take the word of one teacher or another as law without having much or any actual experience themselves. These people can appear to have very strong opinions as well, though their opinions often are not very nuanced or detailed, and don't hold up well under argument and pressure - these people often revert to anger and desperation when their arguments are contested.

Mostly, if you want the strong, aggressive, detailed opinions, there's only one way to it, and no shortcut: get experience. The more experience you have, the more complete and comprehensive and sure your opinions generally will be.

Chase

Eric Reeves's picture

To add to chase's comment... look at obesity and america.

We didn't even NEED dentistry until recently. I can imagine it was the same with weight loss diets as well. We simply didn't need them until we started having issues with processed foods and the like. Most cavities are formed by sugars, or lingering carbohydrates. Most obesity problems are caused by sugars as well because it's hard to moderate them.

And yet people still advocate low-fat diets. Really? Do we need to get into the 40% obesity range for people to change? We'll be there before the next decade unfortunately.

Strong opinions and deciders make all the difference. The government with their economic budgeting (bread = cheaper), and sugar companies (sugar is addicting.. fat not so much), and pharmacuticals (pushing cholesterol medication).

Bleh.

Sulagna Dasgupta's picture

Hey Chase,
What you've said about Indian women is completely true in SOME STATES (I don't know if you know - like the US, India is divided in several states, and these states have entirely different languages and cultures!), whereas in some others it's not completely true.
Anyway, all in all your post is detailed, informative, and really thoughtful.
Do visit www.loveinindia.co.in sometimes...I'm trying to think a bit differently there! :)
Thanks
Sulagna

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Hi Sulagna,

That's good to know, actually. I'd imagine the more modernized states are more inline culturally with more modernized parts of the world, too. I've been meaning to get to India for a few years now - I'm certain it's going to be a lot of fun to check out when I do.

Thanks for the link to your site, I'll check it out.

Chase

Anonymous's picture

This is one of the best articles i ever read..scratch that this Is the best article ive ever read.
I related so much to this and truelly understood everyword.

Sam's picture

Chase,

The more I was reading forward the more I enjoyed it. Partly because it really concerns me and partly to make the devil's advocate, I would like to raise a question.

Two seemingly contradictory ideas appear in the article:

A) Women are desirous creatures who appreciate men who move fast, show their erotic interest in them and seek sex with them.

B) Women are hardwired to resist, women filter men, women delay sex.

Most men, whether beginners, intermediate or even advanced, could relate with the second idea. After all, this is why we read religiously your blog; to overcome women's delays and obstacles in our way to intimacy. In particular, some men might have lost women, not because they were slow, but because they were too fast.

How can the aforementioned ideas on women be reconciled?

Eric Reeves's picture

Hey Sam, I actually did a little write-up a few days ago on a topic similar to this. It's almost done so expect it soon.

Your question is more on dealing with resistance while moving fast, while my article is more on preventing it before it occurs.

- Eric

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Hey Sam,

As Eric noted, he's already got an article on the way here.

But here's a quick way of thinking about this:

Just because you make a challenge doesn't necessarily mean you want the person to fail. For instance, you may say to a group of people, "I'll be NONE of you can solve this problem I have," and tell them they're wrong on every half-assed effort they make to give you a solution... because what you're LOOKING for is someone who's going to breakthrough the challenge and give you the PERFECT solution. That's a good way of thinking about women's resistance vs. desire... they want a man to succeed - but they want to make sure he's strong enough that he can overcome the obstacles laid before him on the way to success.

Women don't actually sit there tapping their fingertips together, wry smiles dotting their lips, thinking about how carefully constructed their challenges are and how only the finest men will make it past them, but it's the easiest way to think about desire and resistance if you're unacquainted with the juxtaposition of the two.

Chase

Balla's picture

Hey chase, this article was really deep! I have a question though. It's like this, I always think about sex 24/7 it actually kills me now because Im not getting it like I use to. I moved and the girls are much harder to get to sleep with where I'm at now than where I was before. Why is it different?

I wanted to say the only time I got lays was from girls who came to me and I mean from the approaching to texting to setting up dates. It was like a reversal role, but I never did anything no approaching at all but I got laid by the girls who came up to me. I'm not getting laid by the girls I approach though. I'm thinking that it's because I show them I like them but with the other girls they chase me to make me like them. I don't want to wait for girls to approach me! It takes too long and sometimes their not what I want. Anyway the question for that is how can I get the same results I got from girls approaching me to me approaching them?

And is me thinking about sex all the time chase the girls away? It's like the more I think about it the more it's going out of my grasp, like some magic force is like "I will torment you with these thoughts and urges but you won't be able to get them".

Thanks chase,

Balla!

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Hey Balla,

Could be you need to get your approach suited to a different style of women in your new area... e.g., while I could talk about travel a lot when I lived in Washington, D.C., and every girl over the age of 23 or so found it gripping, most women I mentioned it with in San Diego would go into auto-rejection because it's a much more insular, less worldly community and it was too much. Or, I had a very cool Chinese jacket from Shanghai that women were fascinated to learn was from China when I wore it out in D.C., but when I wore it in my old college town and told girls it was from China, I'd get a blank stare and silence in response. There's a lot of tailoring that has to go on to get things tweaked for women in different regions.

With interest... it's certainly possible you're showing too much interest. Interest is very attractive from a man when it's subtle and when his fundamentals are very handled; that way, it's welcome interest. If it's from a man who's still working on being sexy and suave, however, it's more "cute," like what we talked about in the "women taking you seriously" article. So, check yourself there to see if you're being too forward for where you're at - you might be killing your intrigue.

Thinking about sex is good if you're living in abundance and are confident you can get sex when you want it and are NOT feeling needy. It's very bad if you're feeling needy about it and get needy with women you think you've got a shot with. Essentially, think of it as good if your emotion is, "Oh yes, this is great... I'm going to make this girl so full of desire she won't be able to take it," and bad if your emotion is, "Oh, I hope I don't mess this up... come on, girl, we've got to make it happen!"

If it's the latter, you'll want to get your mind off of it until you can relax a bit more and stay more in control and more steady with women when sex-crazy.

Chase

Balla's picture

Hey chase I was just reading your article on being smooth and it's over after beginner it doesnt show intermediate and advanced.

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Thanks Balla, glad you told me - all fixed now.

Cheers,
Chase

Vaughn 's picture

I just finished reading the articles you put for me to read on your last article In the comments. I read that you got more girls being low key and non energetic. How can I pull that off without being a boring person or stand offish? Thank you!

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Hey Vaughn,

See the stuff on conversation to make yourself more interesting:

Those should get you set.

Chase

Anonymous's picture

Hi Chase I been tall for as long as I can reanonmember and girls always tell "anon you're so tall " and I normally say yeah I know.I know it takes a lot of courage for a girl to walk up and say that ,so how can I stir this towards something profitable?

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Hey Anon,

You can put your hand on top of a girl's head and say, "And you're tiny!" That's a fun way of teasing them back a bit. I used to use this one quite a bit (and I'm not even all that tall).

But what I more prefer in those situations where you get some girl randomly approaching you these days is to smile warmly, look her in the eyes, and say, "Nice to meet you too! I'm Chase." She'll introduce herself, and then you'll ask her how her day or night is going. Next, ask her why she felt so compelled to come over and say hello. When she says it's because you're tall, you can say, "I see. And do you tell EVERY tall person you see that they're tall?" She'll laugh and say no, and you'll say, "Huh... well, why me?"

At that point, unless she's super confident, you'll probably need to take some pressure off her, so be nice and ask her somethings about herself after she answers you that aren't too challenging.

Chase

Anonymous's picture

Mindblowing what an insight!chase how would you recommend on giving girls compliments I don't want to sound fake but at the same time I don't want to sound inconsiderate how to do that?

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Hey Anon,

Simply follow the rule of effusive praise, bored voice tone.

So, "You have a really nice style about you... very well put together. Good choice of colors and items," all said as if you're mildly bored. You can praise this way without seeming over the top or overly impressed, while still paying solid compliments and communicating sincere interest.

Chase

Mark's picture

Another great article Chase. I really appreciate being able to read your opinion on this subject. I mostly get it from one perspective. One thing to mention is that although Jesus did talk mainly of love, He did speak a certain amount of condemnation, such as in Matthew 5 (yes I had to bring that one up). But anyway one thing I have noticed is that out of all of the religious leaders who have had sex outside marriage that I have heard talk about sex, I only remember two actually saying they wish they hadn't done it. And none of them said they didn't enjoy it. I am still trying to figure out where I fall so I really like seeing both viewpoints.
-Mark

Anonymous's picture

Hey chase,

read like all your articles before, and bought the books etc. Going through it all again, idk how many times i've read the things you say, but I'm reading thinking, using trying, practicing etc. I have a girlfriend now, she's a virgin, she says she's not ready for sex, so I'm not sure how else to approach the topic to her. We've dated for about a month, and things are great, she really is in love with me, same goes for me.

I just want to keep her, and as you say, i would want to make me her special person soon. Quick question though, i want to know that she isn't lying about her virginity, how can i tell that its her actual vriginity and not her on a period?

Secondly, what would you do to escalate the relationship into sex? I'm not going to guilt her into sex, or force her into any of that. i want to make her feel comfortable and have a memorable first time.

Thanks Chase,
your friend -

Robert Kirby's picture

Chase,

This was an awesome post, and it is of special interest to me as it strikes very close to home for me and many of my friends. I live, as you did, in a very small traditional Catholic town in the Midwest, and when I traditional I mean like old school, Latin liturgy and everything.

First of all, I would like to say that I think your post was very insightful and your resentment of your early upbringing is justified, as I believe the Catholic religion is often very poorly presented.

I like how you broke down the actual, biological need for sex and why women actually need men to move fast. It all makes perfect sense.

I would however, like to take a moment to point out that I think that the true Catholic position on the subject has been misunderstood. The reasons that were taught to me were very practical and logical. The reason behind the laws governing purity in Catholic morality stem from the actual purpose of marriage itself. There are two ends to marriage: First, the procreation and education of children; and Second, the conjugal love between partners (including sexual pleasure). In the natural hierarchy of needs, if there is ever a conflict of interests, the first end takes priority over the second. (Since special preservation outranks self preservation). So you could say that the idea of marriage, monogamy and purity as portrayed by the Church and society are in conflict with the actual needs of all individual humans, and I would agree. However, imagine if every single male human on the planet followed your (indisputably) superior model of seduction and simply procreated with every female he found attractive. This would be great for the individual males and for the sheer number of humans conceived. However, human reproduction is not just about quantity, but about quality, since we were created (or evolved) as a superior species, with an intellect and a will. In short, we actually care about the quality of the upbringing of our children. So imagine what the above model will do (and has done) to the development of a child. Would it not be better for that child if he were raised by two parents that were committed to being being spawned by an alpha male father who may or may not see him again, and raised by a mother who may in fact resents him for taking away her "liberty"? I think that it has been proven by history that the family model works best for the child. And in this situation the children are the priority, not the parent., even from an atheistic, evolutionary standpoint.

I take the time to say this because even though I fail miserably at upholding the standards of Catholic morality in this and every other way, I know many people who have upheld this standard, gotten married, and are more blissfully happy than any of us ever will be. Because, really if you are just running around satisfying yourself, how can you be truly happy? All men thirst for immorality more than anything, and the only way you can truly achieve it (unless you are Achilles) is through your children.

Admittedly, the people I refer to probably followed something resembling your process and moved fast. acted passionately and married soon. So I think we both you are and the Catholic Church can be right. I just hate to see one of the greatest minds I have ever been educated by at odds with a beautiful ideology, just because it was presented badly.

I really appreciate the post and all the work you do to help other people become better. If only all Catholics were half as Catholic as you, we would be in a far better place. I remain your devoted fan.

Robert

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