What exactly constitutes a date anymore? Time was, dinner a movie, something creative, taking a class together and whathaveyou. But now, does "hanging out" actually count as a date, or just as it suggests, only hanging out? Hanging out is something that one usually does with plutonic friends, and a date has romantic undertones, so, if you're dating someone and the two of you decide to hang out, are you forfeiting the right to romantic encounters at the rendez-vous, such as kissing or cuddling?

It's a curious question. In the big pool of dating, things have obviously become much more relaxed and way less formalized, to the point where really anything goes, perhaps even "hanging out".