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ORIGINAL: e01n
It used to be so much easier: you'd see someone at a club and just pick them up and if they were into what you were, great - no worries no hassles. Then we started getting paranoid about meeting people we'd been talking to online...

So this is what I used to recommend as basic safety precautions for a first meeting: meet in a well-lit public place that there's a clear route to and from, have a safecall with a coded phrase that tells your friend to call the cops to said meeting place or en route, the meeting is of a fixed duration and you don't deviate from that location and route, and no play on the first meeting.

Now, hearing this come from the 6'3" 240# petite flower that I am tends to make some female associates who hear my safety rant want to be even more cautious than I am... which is sort of the point, I guess: I want my friends to stay alive for a while.

Then again, this is from a number of years ago. Do you think I should add anything? Remove things? Get over myself? Have things changed, or is this still good common sense?