[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

Guys studying to be priests are allowed to date; it's just discouraged.

I dated a pharmacist who was studying to be a priest at one point (before we dated.) He had a girlfriend when he started studying, and it contributed to his decision to not keep on track for the priesthood -- he wasn't ready to commit to the girl, but he also wasn't ready to commit to not dating *any* girls.

I know he took a lot of heat over continuing to date, though. And I think there *were* rules about sex -- just not about taking girls out to dinner, for example.