1.What is/was standard date?
I don't know. I've not been on one. Sadly, not even by choice. And as far as my parents are concerned, my dad was very romantic, but when she got pregnant, they decided they should get married.

I guess I will proceed answering these how I would if I had actually been on a date, and how I think my parents would have had they not gotten married so quickly.

2.Is/was a kiss on the first date appropriate?
I don't see why not. If there is mutual attraction, hopefully emotionally before purely physically, then by all means, go for it. And I do believe my parents kissed on their first date.

3.Where is/was a good date spot?
Again, I have no idea, being unexperienced. I would say the movies, but also a good concert venue, seeing a mututally liked band, or going to see a play, or hanging out at the park downtown. But, I don't know. My dad took my mom to ride horses.

4.Is/was it ok for the woman to pay?
Yes, if she feels so inclined, or if I don't have any money and she still wants to go out regardless. (Which is often and seldom, respectively.)

5.Single or Group Dates?
Group dates are probably a lot of fun and I can imagine that they'd take the edge off of being alone with a stranger kind of thing. Plus, it gets them into a more comfortable settings, hopefully with mutual friends at a comfortable place. I know my parents did both, but usually the groups were through a church.

6.How easy is/was it to get a date?
Like I said, none to speak of, so, at the moment, fucking impossible. The hardest part is, really, being attracted to someone who is attracted to me. The second hardest part, is meeting new people, girls specifically, to begin with. Third hardest thing is knowing if they really are interested. Fourth, having the balls to find out or ask them out.
I have no idea about my parents.

7.Is/was there any symbol that you are dating? (ring, letterman jacket)
Probably time. My mother, though, did wear the letterman's jacket and ride on the motorcycles of those guys she dated in high school.

8.Is/was it acceptable to engage in sexual activity before marriage?
Well, that's precisely why I was conceived when I was, and why my parents are married. They may regret it, but they did it.
I for one condone it. Then again, if I can't get a fucking date, I doubt I'd date fucking laid (pun intended).

9.If so, how far into the relationship do you wait?
Whenever the relatoinship is comfortable, emotionally and physically.

10.Have you even been on a blind date?
No. Hook me up.

11.At what age do/did most people within your generation get married?
Surprisingly, I'm finding a great number of my peers getting married: probably five or six of the people from my (small) middle school class are married now. (I'm 21 years old.)
I also shoot weddings professionally, on occasion, and many of the clients are in their young 20s.
My parents had both been married prior to marrying each other. My mother first married at 18, but then to my father at 24, when he was 39. He had first gotten married a number of years earlier, perhaps 18, but I'm not certain.

12.What are your thoughts on interracial dating? Are certain races acceptable to intermix while other are not?
Any mixture is fine by me. I personally find myself attracted to some and not to others.
I have no idea about my parents.

13.How/Where did/do you generally meet the people that you date?
As I've said before, I haven't, and I really wish that I knew where to meet people to date. I guess I'm socially retarded, or at least so unexperienced with the romantic side of relationships that I just have no clue. Regardless, I still have no clue, and no outlook for improvement.
I'm certain my classes would be a good place, though it's been fairly fruitless. I work in the back offices with one female who is committedly not dating (which, thankfully, is a religious thing and not something she's just telling me, hah). I think a concert might be somewhere else, but, again, I have no idea.
I think my parents met at a church.

14.How often did/do you go on dates (when you have bf/when you are casually dating?)
Never. But if I had, then on the weekend, as I work and go to school until late.
I think my dad had a schedule, like every weekend or every other weekend he would set aside time for a date.

15.What did/do you generally talk about on dates?
Music. That seems to be one of the most interesting yet socially acceptable topics I can talk about with someone and engage them. I'm weird to some extent, being a photographer, a programmer, a designer, etc. I'm a geek, and a dork, I recognize that. It's life, and who I am. But I'm pretty sure that if I got talking about symbolic logic or recursively infinite data structures, my date would lose interest very quickly. That's understandable, because that requires a lot of precontextual knowledge. But, it's also what interests me.
Of course, I'd talk about just about anything, whatever she's interested in. I like talking about stuff that I don't fully understand, because I learn as I go. I like questions.
I have no idea about my parents. They are weird people to begin with, but really different from each other as well.

16.What did/do you consider cheating within a dating relationship?
When you're in a committed relationship (as in, you've verbally committed to each other, by \"asking out\" or whatever-the-fuck you do), doing something that you would normally only do with that committed person. (To be specific, going out on dates, dinner, whatever. Not, for instance, finger painting, partying, or other activities that can be done with friends.)

17.What clothes did/do you generally wear on a date?
I'd throw on a collared t-shirt and some jeans. Maybe collared.
I have no idea about my parents.

18.Was/Is it acceptable to go on vacation with someone that you are dating?
Sure.
Again, no clue about my parents.

19.Was/Is it acceptable to kiss someone who is not your boyfriend?
My girlfriend?
All kidding aside, if you are in a committed relationship, and you do something romantic/physical that you would generally restrict to only doing with your partner, then it's cheating. Frenching your girlfriend's best friend just isn't kosher, even for a social retard like myself.

20.Do/did you “date” a lot, or do you prefer long exclusive relationships?
I would prefer to date a lot, though I think it will end up being a longer, exclusive relationship, or at least exclusive. I don't really know, though.
I know my mother dated around in high school, but I have no idea bout my dad. I think he joined the army obscenely young (he dropped out of high school and went straight in, lying about his age).

21.Do/did you think that is okay to date someone with a different religion?
Yes (see my note about my religion/philosophy below), though I'm certain some religions will not agree, making it very difficult to date those religions.
My parents are fairly traditional Christians, so they would not be OK with it.

22.What generation were you born in?
1985, which is... what? The 90s generation? Gen-X? Or am I after that? I don't know. The computer generation.

23.What size city were you raised in?
Just south of Atlanta, in the suburbs.

24.What is your religious background?
I grew up in a Christian home, and was a Christian for a number of years. Around the time when I was 15, I was agnostic, then atheist, then anti-religion.
Since then, I went back to Christianity, but this past summer I struggled with my Christianity and early fall I decided that I was no longer able to consider myself a Christian nor could I be a Christian. (They seem to be similar, but they really are distinct.)
This has a lot to do with who I am and who I want to be, which connects pretty well with the postmodernist philosophy which I've found I align myself with pretty well.

25.How involved were you in your church, synagogue, or temple?
Very. My departure from the Christian faith was not because of a fucked up church or a lack of effort to know and understand the religion. It was an extremely embattled discovery of who I was, my identity, and what I believed. When I was a Christian, though, I spent a great deal of time at the church, devoting myself to serving. I also studied the religion extensively, as a faithful follower should. (Funny how it helped me decide to reject it.)
My parents were active like any average person was active (just show up, take a few notes, and leave) when I was born. When I was seven, they had a lot of marital problems, and stopped going, but later we got them going again. My father was very involved when he was younger.

26.Did you have both a paternal and maternal figure during your childhood? Or another family member?
Yes, both father and mother, and numerous other family members, such as my grandmother and grandfather.

27.How much were these caretakers involved in your life? Be specific.
Very involved. I lived with them until I was 20. We spent a lot of time together. They were very strict, and, for the most part, we obeyed.

28.Are you a male or female?
Male.

29.What is your sexual orientation?
Heterosexual

30.What is your view on same sex dating?
I don't see any problem with it. If that is what you want to do, by all means, do it.

31.What are your parent’s political views? (Liberal, Conservative, Democratic, Republican)
Conservative republican, like any good Christian folk.

32.What are your own political views?
I hate it when people force their standards onto others' lives, even though they do not hold that standard or belief. (This applies very much so to the previous question.)
I'm a moderate, in favor of the democratic liberality: I like change a good deal of the time, though I see some things needing to stay.

I really hope something from this is useful for you, edge case though it may be. (Unless, unbeknownst to me, everybody is just like me. Scary.)

M.T.

P.S. - To be precise, it's not completely anonymous through Facebook. Not anonymous at al