Dating while single costs "about 500 euros", forum estimate finds

Dating solo: the makeover estimated at around 500 euros

Dating while single isn't hard. It's expensive, and not because of the dinners. An estimate circulating in the thread puts a price on the transformation beforehand: around 500 euros to adopt the profile that supposedly works. The recipe includes fifteen days without showering, dreadlocks, tattoos, hoops, a box of cheap wine and three joints to set the mood. It sounds like a joke. It has the structure of a budget.

What the makeover budget includes

The breakdown doesn't mention a gym or ironed shirts. It mentions fifteen days without showering or brushing your teeth, letting your hair go wild, tattoos, dreadlocks, hoops in your ear, a box of own-brand wine and three joints to get into character. As a shopping list it's a caricature; as a diagnosis it points to something real: the idea that courtship can be bought, measured and budgeted.

Whoever comes up with the figure presents it as a rough guess, an estimate, not verified data. No other amount appears in the thread and nobody else backs it up.

Consent, "to be renewed at every step"

The second issue raised in the thread is consent. One participant describes it as a problem: you have to keep renewing consent at every step, which turns any encounter into a continuous negotiation, and he himself calls it complicated.

The thread stops there, without getting into how that translates into practice.

The shortcuts that aren't free: health and substances

The suggestion of hooking up "on the moon" is met with a blunt warning that you'll catch something. Another message jokes outright about showing up with an infection already contracted. They're jokes, but the underlying issue isn't: no unprotected encounter comes free of charge. Faced with any specific doubt, the sensible thing is to consult a healthcare professional and not rely on a conversation at the bar.

The chemical shortcut also circulates, framed as someone raising a video game's difficulty level. No evidence supports the idea that speeding up hookups with substances improves anything, and the legal and health costs aren't factored into the 500-euro calculation.

"CV, family and neighbourhood": the filter one message points to

The harshest criticism isn't aimed at those who date badly, but at the structure itself. CV, family and neighbourhood matter more than any seduction trick, according to the most acid take, which places this among the country's last remaining class strongholds. The access codes can't be learned in an afternoon.

That reading has a spatial reflection. Some users, in a mocking tone, point to the toilets at Méndez Álvaro in Madrid as a recurring meeting spot and add that the site's security already has its regulars on file. The comment goes no further than the joke.