“Professional dating coach” Wayne Elise teaches conservative men how to get dates.

What do conservative women want?

Unclear, since the audience for the seminar “Conservative Dating” at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel was, save a few female journalists, overwhelmingly male.

TheTeaParty.net, which is a lead sponsor of the annual right-wing confab, recruited “professional dating coach” Wayne Elise for the session, in which a conference room full of young, presumably unhitched conservatives sought out tips on how to achieve more fruitful and amorous social lives.

So, with so few women in the room, what, then do conservative guys want? Elise asked one person sitting up front to describe his ideal woman: perfect skin, nice eyes, about 5 feet 7 inches tall and works for Fox News. A bit too ideal?

Not at all, Elise said.

“If you cast a wide net you’re not going to get the person you want,” Elise said. “Be articulate in what you want. Just like in business.” He struggled to gesticulate the concept of specificity, lamenting he had not brought an electronic pointer. “I should have brought a laser, damn it.”

Looking back at Elise’s advice, CPAC seems like as good a place as any to avoid generalities in choosing a mate. A large poster of one-time Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, advertising a different conference event, was ill-positioned outside the room with the dating seminar, considering the Cain campaign’s own unraveling. But the former pizza executive’s marital woes aside, it wasn’t that long ago when the Republican masses seemed enraptured by Cain.

Of course, Cain was just one in what has been a long line of GOP dalliances—Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum all felt like turnstile dates for a primary electorate who haven’t been able to congeal around one candidate. Was Elise surreptitiously warning CPAC attendees that if they can’t agree on their ideal match that they may find themselves with—gasp!—boring old Mitt Romney?

OK, he wasn’t so specific. But the group did talk about where conservatives might go on an ideal date.

“Gun club,” one guy said. “You can look like you know what you’re doing.” (Emily Miller could not be reached for reaction.)

Elise said a shooting range sounded better for a second date.

And if a coupling goes well, some wanted to know, are conservatives allowed to sleep together after the first encounter?

“Couldn’t it complicate things if your goal is to have sex by the end of the first date?” asked The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein asked.

“I think it’s good to be sexual earlier, but you don’t want to be sleazy,” Elise said. And no one raised their hands when he asked if anyone in the singles’ seminar was wedded. No open marriages in this crowd, it seemed..

Still, Elise’s seminar felt kind of underwhelming. No one even brought up a recent finding claiming Republicans experience more orgasms. The program promised single conservatives they would learn “everything from how to avoid scaring away your own personal Dagny Taggart in the first five minutes of the conversation, to whether Tea Partiers and occupiers can share something more than a dislike for bailouts.” Neither the Tea Party nor Occupy Wall Street were ever mentioned, nor was Ayn Rand’s objectivist (and rather tawdry) manifesto Atlas Shrugged. Now we’ll never know if Republican women prefer a Hank Rearden or a John Galt.

A few College Republicans shared this disappointment after leaving. “We thought it would be more fun,” Charles Sumner, a student from Florida, said. His friend, Kyle Hackel, added that he regretted changing around his schedule.

“We missed Rick Perry for that.”