DATING

Looking at existentialism and dating, the best chat up lines, how to prove attractive to someone on a date, what to talk about, eat and drink, what to wear, why our very first kiss maybe the best sex we ever had, what we miss about our dating years, here is a guidebook to the joys and anxieties of romantic love - and the key to finding a long term partner. The process we now call dating sits on top of some of the largest themes of love: how to know whether or not someone is right for us; how soon to settle and how long to search; how to be at once honest and seductive; how to politely extricate oneself without causing offence. This little book teaches us about the history of dating (and why the way we are dating now is so novel and so perplexing), the reason why our dating days can be so anxious, how we should discuss our past on a date, what questions we might ask a new partner, how to optimise our attempts at dating, and how to digest and overcome so-called 'bad' dates. Illus. 114 small pages.