The Dating Adventure

I’ve never been a dinner and drinks type of girl - no matter how great the dinner and drinks were, it never led to much more than a very tipsy walk home. I never thought much about my lack of dinner-date love until I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane, 15,000 feet in the air, with a date who not only matched my craziness, but even added the cherry on top. The excitement, the fear, the thrill…the LOVE! Pandora’s box had been opened and my dating life would never be the same again.

From then on my dates where forced to endure everything from abseiling to canyoning to whitewater rafting - needless to say the rubbers in my purse were actually band-aids!

My lack of luck with dinner dates, and obsession with combining love and adventure seemed a bit odd, until I found a research study done by Dutton and Aron on, “Evidence for Heightened Sexual Attraction Under Conditions of High Anxiety” - AHA, finally there was proof and it made sense.

Dutton and Aron ran a very cheeky study to prove the strong link between emotional arousal and sexual attraction. They took a group of male subjects to a popular tourist attraction which consisted of deep and frightening gorges - and two bridges. Bridge one was the dinner bridge, stable, safe and pretty inviting. Bridge two was the ‘am I really doing this’ bridge, old, swaying and frighteningly unsolid. At the end of each bridge stood a female research assistant, chosen to be of equal attractiveness. The men where split up and assigned to cross either the safe bridge or the terrifying bridge. Once crossed, they where met with the female who showed them a picture and asked them to write a short story, she then gave them her number and said, “call me if you’d like to further discuss the experiment.”

The result? Men who had crossed the scary and precarious bridge wrote the sexiest stories and were more likely to call back the female assistants to discuss the terrifying adventure. The conclusion drawn by researchers was that anxiety-producing situations create a more erotic turn-on, so if the first experience together is stirring and adventurous, it will more likely bring strong and intense emotions with it. Sharing emotional experience and talking about a stressful situation brings people and couples together, in other words, a little shared anxiety is a proven aphrodisiac!

Tomorrows Date and The Big Blind is based on the above premise. As much as we at TD love a good dinner, when it comes to dates we simply want something a bit more exciting!

Posted by Gina() on 08/01