> I don't come at this as the pushy sexual conqueror you seem to assume. My perspective is from social anxiety. I already am very hesitant to approach women, be

> I don't come at this as the pushy sexual conqueror you seem to assume. My perspective is from social anxiety. I already am very hesitant to approach women, because everything seems forbidden and inappropriate. This social anxiety is not in the same category as the behavior of the perpetrator of sexual assault in this blog post. There are plenty of sites that will pair you up with someone for a date. You can meet someone from such a site and easily judge whether they are interested in pursuing a relationship further. Once they know you have social anxiety, they will probably even give you some leeway about being awkward and uncomfortable as you try to gauge where the relationship is going. That is certainly not a guarantee against you doing something out of line. And it is still certainly helpful to get advice from someone you trust who is obviously more comfortable and intuitive with the less "logical" aspects of human interaction. Completely unrelated to all of that-- this blog post was about a person who held a position of power over another in a professional business venture, tried to get the less powerful person in the venture drunk at a social gathering, then attempted to use that person's inebriation in order to increase the likelihood of sexual advances. Then, the victim of this unwanted and already inappropriate proposition explicitly said "no" and explicitly asked him to leave. Instead, he physically assaulted her. Please tell me you understand the difference between that and your own potential to have an awkward encounter with a woman due to social anxiety. edit: clarification