I'm a grad student with a busy day-to-day class schedule, and I've recently spent a couple of long nights studying with this cute girl in my class 1 on 1 in the library. Now by "studying", I basically mean hanging out with her, teasing her, and generally being playful / mildly flirty.
Now despite the fact that this girl is attractive and has a great personality, she carries with her a very well-known reputation of being a practicing Muslim who doesn't drink or do anything sexual.... Many guy classmates have repeatedly told me not to waste time pursuing her sexually because at the end of the day, Islam strictly forbids pre-marital sex and I'd be lucky to even kiss her. In other words, she's a 23-year-old virgin.
Here comes the intriguing part of the story. Last Tuesday night at 12:30 AM I get a txt message from her asking if she can come and "check out my place". She had never seen my apartment before but for whatever reason decides that 12:30 AM on a tuesday night would be a good time (despite the fact that we had class at 9AM the next morning). I have to be honest -- everything within me wanted to make an excuse so she wouldn't come over. Why would I want to waste my time knowing she's religious and not coming over looking for sex?? Being the gentleman that I am, however, I reluctantly agree and let her inside. Once I show her around my place, I don't even bother sitting next to her on the couch, instead choosing to sit at my computer chair approx 10 feet away from her where I carry out a conversation with her.
About 10 minutes into our conversation she starts asking me whether I'm dating anyone at the moment and also tries to find out whether I've hooked up with any classmates in the past. I tell her I'm not seeing anyone (which is the honest truth) but I refrain from telling her my past record of hookups. I then turn the question on her and ask her who she's hooked up with (in an attempt to probe whether she's truly as innocent as others make her out to be) and she tells me that she's never had a boyfriend and she turned down the last guy who pursued her because, as she puts it, "I found out he was just looking for a friends-with-benefits situation and I said no." She then added that the guy "stopped contacting me immediately after he realized this." Shocker. After about a total of 1.5 hours of talking at my place she got up and left my apartment still smiling / joking etc... During this time I made NO attempts whatsoever to test her boundaries through kino. Again, I felt that doing so would have been pointless.
My non-classmate friends who I've told this story to tell me I'm a complete idiot for not recognizing the fact that this girl clearly came up to my apartment at 12:30 AM on a Tuesday to screw. They argue that all the religion / conviction in the world doesn't mean **** if a girl is knocking on your door that late to "come check out your place." In other words, they're trying to convince me that I sabotaged this opportunity to bang this girl because I was caught up in all these concerns about her religious beliefs, etc. which she may have easily been willing to sacrifice if I made a move / sexually escalated the situation.
I'm arguing that this girl is probably interested in dating, yes, but was probably too socially unaware to realize the implication that coming over a guy's place at 12:30 AM suggests you're looking to get it in, and therefore could have simply been looking to talk / flirt / hang-out without getting sexual.
What do you think?? Did I just completely F-up this perfect opportunity or are my friends just being delusional??
Now despite the fact that this girl is attractive and has a great personality, she carries with her a very well-known reputation of being a practicing Muslim who doesn't drink or do anything sexual.... Many guy classmates have repeatedly told me not to waste time pursuing her sexually because at the end of the day, Islam strictly forbids pre-marital sex and I'd be lucky to even kiss her. In other words, she's a 23-year-old virgin.
Here comes the intriguing part of the story. Last Tuesday night at 12:30 AM I get a txt message from her asking if she can come and "check out my place". She had never seen my apartment before but for whatever reason decides that 12:30 AM on a tuesday night would be a good time (despite the fact that we had class at 9AM the next morning). I have to be honest -- everything within me wanted to make an excuse so she wouldn't come over. Why would I want to waste my time knowing she's religious and not coming over looking for sex?? Being the gentleman that I am, however, I reluctantly agree and let her inside. Once I show her around my place, I don't even bother sitting next to her on the couch, instead choosing to sit at my computer chair approx 10 feet away from her where I carry out a conversation with her.
About 10 minutes into our conversation she starts asking me whether I'm dating anyone at the moment and also tries to find out whether I've hooked up with any classmates in the past. I tell her I'm not seeing anyone (which is the honest truth) but I refrain from telling her my past record of hookups. I then turn the question on her and ask her who she's hooked up with (in an attempt to probe whether she's truly as innocent as others make her out to be) and she tells me that she's never had a boyfriend and she turned down the last guy who pursued her because, as she puts it, "I found out he was just looking for a friends-with-benefits situation and I said no." She then added that the guy "stopped contacting me immediately after he realized this." Shocker. After about a total of 1.5 hours of talking at my place she got up and left my apartment still smiling / joking etc... During this time I made NO attempts whatsoever to test her boundaries through kino. Again, I felt that doing so would have been pointless.
My non-classmate friends who I've told this story to tell me I'm a complete idiot for not recognizing the fact that this girl clearly came up to my apartment at 12:30 AM on a Tuesday to screw. They argue that all the religion / conviction in the world doesn't mean **** if a girl is knocking on your door that late to "come check out your place." In other words, they're trying to convince me that I sabotaged this opportunity to bang this girl because I was caught up in all these concerns about her religious beliefs, etc. which she may have easily been willing to sacrifice if I made a move / sexually escalated the situation.
I'm arguing that this girl is probably interested in dating, yes, but was probably too socially unaware to realize the implication that coming over a guy's place at 12:30 AM suggests you're looking to get it in, and therefore could have simply been looking to talk / flirt / hang-out without getting sexual.
What do you think?? Did I just completely F-up this perfect opportunity or are my friends just being delusional??