Around the sub, the common definition of a plate is a girl that you have sex with on a regular basis. So if you fuck a girl at two separate times, I guess you'd call her a plate.

Although, in the "plate theory" chapter of The Rational Male, Rollo Tomassi defines plate as simply an ongoing prospect, that you don't necessarely have had sex with yet. So that would include all the girls you are currently gaming IRL, ones you met and got their numbers or even online matches.

Why is there a dissonance between these two uses of the term and if we stick to the strict definition of a plate to be be a safe sexual option, how would you call a "prospective" plate ?

Maybe there could be a distinction between plate, banged plate and locked down plate, or something like this.

This leads me to another question, aimed at the more experienced plate spinners :

Is there a clear difference in the way you logistically treat :

  1. A safe, locked down plate
  2. A girl you fucked once and want to lock down
  3. A girl you haven't fucked yet

I'm speaking mostly about texting. Quantity and content of texting, time to wait between texts and overall logistic variables.

Do you have a somehow systemic view on this ? If so I'd like to hear it.