Poll: How long from "hello" to "get a condom"?

Longest time, we were friends for a few months beforehand, so too long to calculate. Usually in relationships, about 8 to 10 hours. Shortest time was 3 hours from introduction to the sack.

We knew each other for awhile as friends before we had sex. 4 months? I would say we saw each other an average of 3-4 hours per week (not counting classes we had together), and during winter vacation we didn’t see each other for like a month. So that’s like, what, 48 hours?

I think my shortest was 3 hours, though.

I seem to run into people with lots of free time. For me it’s somewhere around 16-18 hours, but that also happens to be the second date.

So your dates are around 8-9 hours long?

Huh. Well, now that I understand the question, I am rather surprised because I thought I was something of a slut. Current partner: maybe eight instances of 4-6 hours of hanging out. Previous long-term partner: dozens of instances of that length (over the span of a few months). Long-term partners before that: even longer.

I think that with the exception of the few, very shortest, courtships, I haven’t come anywhere close to 7 hours. I can rule someone out of condom territory within minutes, but it usually takes me a whole lot more time to rule them in.

It’s funny, a few years back, I was dating someone who sort of considered herself a bit of a slut. Our time was pushing way past ten hours.

Three of those hours were spent at a movie theatre.

More like 12, but it doesn’t happen at the end of the second one.

I’m not forcing the other person to stay or anything…One date was planned for about an hour, turned out the activity took about 3 hours instead of 1. Then we were going to go our separate ways, but she forgot something, so we chatted for another hour, drove around and chatted for an hour, and then I went over to her place for another 8 hours or so…

The “date” started at 1-3pm and ended at 1-3 AM.

Once, it was two hours from first knowing of each other’s existence to getting down to business. The last person I had sex with I met online, and talked to for a couple of hours three times a week (on average) for six months before we met in person, so that’s about 150 hours, and from the time I met him in person, it was a little over three hours from meeting to mating.

Fascinating.

OK, the “first meeting”, probably about an hour. The “movie date”, let’s say four hours. Random meet-up, about an hour. Dinner at the apartment (three hours, ka-ching) - priceless.

Phone conversation only adds about two hours, I think.

It seemed like much longer than that.

For this current relationship, intercourse occured about 3-4 hours after we met.
Our 13th wedding anniversary is next month.

Current (and only) relationship:

Real time, about 5 years. How much time actually together is hard to say, but given that we hung out together 3-4 hours a week for most of those it could be over 1000 hours.

Not a wait till marriage type. She was married when we started sleeping together, but not to me.

My Pharmacist: ten seconds.

Well, with the last couple of guys, it was long enough to make sure I wasn’t getting a “hello, I’m a psychotic ax murderer” vibe off of them. Say, hour and a half for one, three hours for the other.

Guy before that, four months of seeing each other at work four days a week.

This IMHO, right?

So my HO is :rolleyes:

My opinion also is that you have started/posted to enough threads about not dating, being lonely, giving up etc. that leads me to think you should just go to Vegas and buy a whore for Christ’s sake.

The circumstances of my current relationship are somewhat unusual, so I’m going to separate all the complicated long-distance time into different buckets.

Met, hung out for a couple of days (say, 20-25 hours face to face); didn’t see each other for two years; met up again, saw a play (4 hours); had breakfast and bummed around town (another 8 hours). Note that all of that is in a group setting, not one-on-one. Then we separated from the group and went to a baseball game (5 hours, including pre and post game time). Then we met up with the group again (another 4 hours). Then she went back to the East Coast and we spent many hours on the phone for the next month (say, 50+). Then we met in New York, had a drink or three (3 hours), went up to the room, and thus begun the hot buttered monkeys.

So total interactive time: 100 hours, maybe 125, something in that range, spread out over a couple of years. But limited to face-to-face one-on-one time, it’s around 8 hours.

Dayuuuuuum!! :slight_smile:
Good work!

My record would be about 30 minutes. AdultFriendFinder, I invited her over for dinner at my place. She jumped my bones before dinner was done.

That was the only time I ever had any luck with an adult dating site, by the way, and I was a member for about 6 whole months. It was great sex though, damn…

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What hello? I have been in bars here where a bargirl will jump out in front of me and say, “Fuck me NOW!” And mean it. I politely decline.

Coworkers, then friends. Actually, 500 hours is probably low.