I agree with you, but I still think it will be hard to carry out in practice.

The lead up to the first time having sex is almost always implicit. Honestly, I feel like that's basically the end goal of flirtation--to wind up sexual tension with innuendo and suggestion but never touch on it directly.

Now, at some points, of course, we just go in and talk about sex directly, before the act. This tends to happen when like we're both busy for a week and end up texting a lot. In situations like this, it's easy, and here I'll be able to follow the advice.

But for a man to bring up the topic first comes across as crude and tactless. I typically never broach the topic of sex before it happens, not even in my mind. I talk, I flirt, and that's it until I start to see something lustful in her eyes. Then, I just respond to that by going in for the kiss, and depending on how fervent the energy I receive back with the kissing is, just go from there.

And almost all of my sexual encounters have been either on the first or second date. If I'm having sex with them, we probably hit it off big time, so sometimes that second date is the very next day. There's not much of a window of opportunity in cases like this.