How not to nail a date with me in ladyland

Suzanne Harrington talks about some of the new safety tacticts making the rounds in the world of dating, including asking for ’Angela’ and rape alarms.

Doing that chatty email thing before a first date recently, the man I am about to meet in town for a casual drink sends a list of things I should do in advance to protect myself from him. Show someone my photo, he suggests, tell them when and where you’re meeting me, and what time you’ll be finished.

Wow, I think. What a turn on. And if you feel unsafe when we are actually together, you can always go to the bar and ask for Angela, he adds. Angela? Is he planning a menage-a-trois in the snug of the Frog & Trumpet? Who’s Angela?