Consequences in "why to ask first"

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_complex

Asking for things works when you aren't able to read body language.

Supposedly, "normal" people can tell you stuff by how they look at you and hold their body, and other "normal" people can read this as if it was spoken aloud. Kinda magical to me, but it supposedly is how "normal" people roll.

"Can I kiss you", doesn't seem like a problem or mood darkener to me.

If someone has a problem with it (asking), they're probably fickle about a lot of things (so not just that will turn them off. Well, that's my experience with people that make a big deal of the small things).

Y'all might notice that this chronic "hide women so they don't get raped" idea doesn't actually work. What it does do is make women more powerless. In countries where women are most hidden-away, they're also most often raped, beaten, killed.

It's the wrong direction for a solution. Willingness to take use and victimization of women seriously, and punish it forcefully...yep, that does seem to work. My guess is that the campus environment's about to get a whole lot friendlier to women at those Cal schools. I don't know too many young men want to spend $35K on a couple years of college only to grope some gal who didn't invite it and find himself thrown out of school, possibly facing criminal charges.

I've said it before: there's a big difference between a stuttering, hand-wringing, apologetic "uuuh, can I kiss you?" and a straightforward: "I'd really like to kiss you right now."

I can see where the former might be a so-called "mood-killer," not because of the asking but because of the delivery. The latter scenario, however, is HAWT. I've kissed more than a few guys I might not have otherwise thought I was interested in because of that line right there.

Also, once again in this never-ending debate, we're not talking about a couple in a relationship, we're talking about two people who are relative strangers to one another. It is presumptive to kiss (or grope) anyone, male or female, who you do not know well enough to have already established some sort of physical relationship.

The first time with any new-to-you person, you should always ask, or at least verbally state your intention so that the other person has a chance to verbally accept or decline. Period.

Eureka seems to indicate: asking could kill the mood. Just make a direct statement of what you would like in the right romantic moment. Not trying to put words in mouth. Just what I have interpreted.

I can recall a more positive response when I made a direct statement myself rather than asking.