92. Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come ninety percent of all your happiness or misery.
— Life's Little Instruction Book, Volume I
These are tropes dealing with the various ways people try to get dates, sex, or even marriage. These could involve wooing, to flattery, to online dating sites, to hitting on people at clubs. And, of course, the degree of success will vary wildly.
Contrast Sexual Harassment and Rape Tropes (forcing one's way into getting sex).
Related
- Attraction Tropes
- Dating Tropes
- Love Interests
- Marriage Tropes
- Rule of Romantic
- Sex Tropes
- Wedding and Engagement Tropes
Tropes
- Animal Chick Magnet
- Balcony Wooing Scene
- Casanova Wannabe
- Chivalrous Pervert
- Chocolate of Romance
- Compete for the Maiden's Hand (a suitor challenges other(s) for the right to wed or woo)
- Courtly Love (wooing, even though it's not expected to lead to anything)
- Coy, Girlish Flirt Pose
- Death and the Maiden
- Desk Sweep of Passion
- Developers' Desired Date
- Dismissing a Compliment
- Duel of Seduction
- Eyelash Fluttering
- Flirtatious Smack on the Ass
- Flirting Under Fire
- Flowers of Romance
- Friendship as Courtship
- Garden of Love
- Glasses Curiosity (wanting to try on someone else's glasses can sometimes be seen as a way of flirting with them)
- Instant Seduction
- Intimate Artistry
- Intimate Telecommunications
- Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
- Massage of Love
- More Experienced Chases the Innocent: A more sexually and/or romantically experienced person pursues someone who has very little to no romantic or sexual experience.
- Mixtape of Love (giving a crush a mixtape as a way to show affection)
- Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date
- Old-School Chivalry
- Pick Up Babes With Babes
- Playful Pursuit
- The Power of Lust
- Puddle-Covering Chivalry
- Ready for Lovemaking
- Romantic Wingman
- Seduction as One-Upmanship
- Serenade Your Lover
- Sexy Coat Flashing
- Single Parents Are Undesirable
- Sitting Sexy on a Piano
- Stood Up
- Teamwork Seduction
- Terrible Pick-Up Lines
- The Tease
- Trial-Period Dating
- Wolf Whistle
