what in the world wrote:
If you are paying for dates then you are paying for sex, (or the future expectation of sex). What does that make your girlfriend?
Don't want to believe it? Do you insist on paying for everything when hanging out with your guy friends? Case closed.
Start sharing expenses equally and stop being an idiot.
You're welcome.
Sorry, paying for dinner and dates is not paying for sex. Paying for sex is paying for sex. The guy is paying for dates for the same reason you don't, because he was raised that way. I agree, let her pay if she wants to, these customs are all about respect and making people feel comfortable.
Not "case closed" on "guy friends". In general, when someone asks someone out to dinner, it is customary for the person who asked to offer to pay. I do this with other men as well if I ask them to lunch or dinner for work, networking or social outings. Of course guys also customarily argue over the bill or maybe split it with large tabs, but that's how it works. The less familiar I am with the people I am dining with, the more smoothly this custom usually works and when you are with good friends people tend to fight over it.