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I don't recall what specific reply I made to that, but I made a se- cond mark on my mental score card after this little gambit and waited to see what would happen next. Well, about once more around the floor and he said, "What are you going to do tonight after the dance?" Since I had my own car there and would simply go home, I said, "Oh, I'll probably just go home and go to bed." He promptly replied, "That last is a good idea but why the former?" That did it as far as I was con- cerned three strikes and you're out, you know. True, I was a pretty innocent young maiden but this time I could see the "make" when it was right in front of me. So by some means such as going to the ladies lounge or something, I got rid of him at the next dance break. But although I got rid of him as a partner I couldn't get rid of the insights the experience had brought me. This was the first time that I had really had the "make" put on me and had a chance to observe and feel at first hand what it was like to have this subtle approach used.

As a woman I was very pleased at the fact that I was attractive enough to bring about this approach but then I got to thinking about other women who had had this sort of thing going on about every time they were in a man's company since they were about 16. I realized rather soon that it wouldn't take very many such approaches before a young girl was pretty wised up to the way things were and would have her defenses up and would know that this was to be expected. It would be reasonable to assume that it wouldn't take very many dates before it becomes obvious to a girl that since this was going to occur frequently that it was she who had the responsibility and the opportunity to say yes or no to it. The corallary to that, of course, is that if she said yes it was because she wanted to say yes, not because he talked her into it, twisted her arm or enforced the situation (except in the case of forcible rape of course). It became clear to me that in reality, any girl who gets into bed with a man does so because she wants to. By the same token, I could think back to my masculine experiences in college, and ever since as far as that goes, wherein I could listen to or watch men attempt their little advances on their dates, on girls at dances, on waitresses in restaurants, on whoever caught their fancy.

All men have little "lines," suggestions, maybe a pat on the fanny, etc., all having one common ultimate goal and if the first play is not rebuffed the second one will be tried and if that isn't rebuffed, the third and so on down the line. Then in college I could recall men bragging about how they had "made it with Mary" last night. They were always proud of their accomplishments and they would sometimes relate the steps leading up to the ultimate experience - "I said this, and I did

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