Kiss me or Diss me

You've bitten the proverbial bullet, you've used the cheezy pickup line, you've done the groundwork and now it's time to cash-in that nookie cheque and seal that deal. You may think the hardest part is over but in actual fact it's only just begun. So you conned a member of the opposite sex into giving you the time of day and managed to hold their attention long enough to convince them you're not a serial rapist, big deal. Welcome to what most people like to call "conversation". I mean let's face it, unless you've got the personality of a toaster or breath to rival the stench of the City Bowl sewer line you should be able to pull that off with relative ease. The real tricky part comes in the chat-up to score conversion.

A favourable technique is the one commonly known as the Power Score. The idea behind this is getting the drop with the element of suprise and will either get you lucky or get you slapped. This is likely to succeed on cheek factor alone. For want of a better and less un-PC term what this really amounts to is scoring rape and executed in the correct manner the victim shouldn't even see it coming. Please note it is not advisable to attempt this when they are engaging in such activies as post tequila shot reelage or sharing a heartfelt story of their terminally ill cancer-ridden grandmother.

The power score has been known to elicit some explosive reactions.

Another approach is to actually ask for permission. This could be seen as the polite alternative to the Power Score and can only go one of two ways: access denied and you look like a knob or access granted and you still look like a knob. There is no way you can pull this off and not come off looking like a spineless half-man. This is not an airport runway, you are not an airline pilot, you don't need to ask for permission to land.

The key to succesfully landing a first move is variety and discretion because different situations call for different measures, but at the end of the day if all else fails you should never be too proud to beg!