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Found this little tidbit from a 1978 Judges Guild supplement for D&D.
Women
The following tables are used upon encountering women to determine the presence of any comrades etc. Regardless of the “Type of Encounter”, a successful “Repartee” usage (see booklet J) will allow a check of the woman’s “Inclination” towards the player, after the woman’s basic “Disposition” and attendant modifier has been noted. Assuming a successful “Inclination” roll (4 or higher), the player may obtain a relationship by paying the Gift Cost. This relationship will last the number of weeks shown under the Duration column; to extend the relationship with their inamorata’s “Inclination” towards them, may pay another Gift Cost (which will not cost towards extension of duration) to allow a re-roll; one re-roll per week. Likewise, a player who was unable to establish the liason because of an inclination roll of 1-3, must first roll a successful Request Granted roll before re-rolling the women’s inclination towards him. Players may establish as many liason’s as they are able but the possibility of disclosure is equal to the other inamorata’s SL stated as a percentage, per week.
It goes on to list the various tables mentioned above as well as explanations of the different results.
Truly a different time.
It's always fun to turn those around. When you do, people recognize how much of it is still currently the way society works.
If it sounds weird to read this using men as the object of the table,but only 'outdated' when women are the object, then you'll recognize that the basic encounter is still acceptable social behavior, as long as a woman isn't doing it
Men
The following tables are used upon encountering men to determine the presence of any comrades etc. Regardless of the “Type of Encounter”, a successful “Repartee” usage (see booklet J) will allow a check of the man’s “Inclination” towards the player, after the man’s basic “Disposition” and attendant modifier has been noted. Assuming a successful “Inclination” roll (4 or higher), the player may obtain a relationship by paying the Gift Cost. This relationship will last the number of weeks shown under the Duration column; to extend the relationship with their inamorato’s “Inclination” towards them, may pay another Gift Cost (which will not cost towards extension of duration) to allow a re-roll; one re-roll per week. Likewise, a player who was unable to establish the liason because of an inclination roll of 1-3, must first roll a successful Request Granted roll before re-rolling the men’s inclination towards her. Players may establish as many liason’s as they are able but the possibility of disclosure is equal to the other inamorato’s SL stated as a percentage, per week.
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It sounds weird with either gender as the subject.
And aside from its social commentary, it is just an awful way to run an encounter with an NPC, especially when it leaves such things as "possible liaisons" as randomly generated... Even back when I started playing D&D in the early 80's as a pre-teen, we may have randomly determined an encounters general attitude (e.g. is the NPC hostile, friendly, neutral, etc.), but we role-played the encounters with NPCs from that point forward. And we certainly didn't have a die roll or table for "will this NPC have sex with my character or not" (which is what most of the article in question focuses on).