Business Insider UK spoke to Matthew Hussey, dating expert at howtogettheguy.com and howtogettheguy.com/blog and author of New York Times bestseller "Get the Guy," about who he thinks should pick up the bill on a first date.
Here's a transcript of the video:
Who should pay on a first date? This is a question I'm asked all the time.
I believe men should pay. I'm a gentleman. My mum brought me up to be a certain way. But there's a danger in a woman not offering to at least pay her half.
I always say: if a woman doesn't offer to pay her half on a date, she wasn't taught right. If a guy doesn't pay the whole thing, he wasn't taught right. That'll tell you everything you need to know about the dynamic.
Ladies, you may be saying: "I don't want to offer on a date because he took me on a date, he should be the one paying."
That may be true, but you learn nothing about a guy when you don't even bother to reach for your purse.
When you reach, you learn about a guy. Because then he can come to you and say: "No, no, no. I've got this." Then you know: "He was going to get this anyway."
But if you don't even reach and he's just pressured into doing it, you don't know if he's doing that because he genuinely wanted to or because he feels like he had to. And you learn nothing.
You know far more about a guy by offering.
Produced by Claudia Romeo. Filmed by David Ibekwe.