You might think that I am an old-fashioned 19th Century Victorian gentleman and you would be right, but I am an old-fashioned Victorian gentleman who always ends up making out with his first date -- perhaps more -- in every relationship I've had.
Dating that has proceeded at a slower pace has never turned romantic for me. When she sandwiches me in every other week, that never turns romantic for me. In every relationship I've had, we've talked daily on the phone after the first date.
The rockets fire and we blast off on the first date. Every time. If not, we don't. Ever. It's pretty simple.