Lizardbreath at Unfogged thinks so. Here’s an excerpt:
People end up in a double bind — admitting you’ve got romantic interest in someone is tantamount to an immediate agreement to sex, but casual, frivolous sex is bad. So you can’t admit that you’re interested at all, unless you’re certain enough that you really want to be in a full scale relationship with the target person that sex is allowable — you have to go from zero (just friends) to sixty (true love) in no time flat. And you kind of have to do this simultaneously, so that neither one of you looks unattractively overeager. (This is complicated by a certain amount of sexual double-standard, making it harder, or at least less likely, for women to make the first move, but that’s not the basic problem.)
