What is the difference between dating someone and seeing someone?

Dating

When you are dating someone, you are casually meeting them with anticipation of sex and/or romantic relationship in the future if all went well for a while. Dating is the process of modern humans shopping for mates. They meet a lot of people and eliminate a of people until they find someone who they would want to start a physical and/or romantic relationship with. Hence the term dating market.

Seeing

When you are having physical intimacy (meaning having sex) with someone, you are seeing them. Think of it this way: When X says she is seeing Y, what she is saying is that she is seeing Y naked. Sounds funny, but that is not only the easy way to remember the difference between dating and seeing but also makes sense logically. Literally, everyone sees everyone else. Why then do we use the word "seeing" in the context of intersexual relationships? Hence, "seeing" in this sense means seeing each other naked. Meaning, two people who are in physical relationship are seeing each other (naked). They may be having just a sexual relationship or it may be a full blown serious romantic relationship, so far as they are having sex, they are seeing each other.


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