Flirting

:This article is about flirtation. For the movie, see Flirting (film).

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Flirting is often described as casual conversation with a romantic touch, but it need not be spoken interaction at all.

Related Topics:
Conversation - Romantic

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Flirting is a way of treating serious things (such as sexual attraction) with an almost mocking or self-mocking air of ease. It can be either pleasantly diverting or wildly exciting, depending on the context.

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People who flirt can speak and act in a way that suggests greater intimacy than is appropriate to the relationship (or to the amount of time the two people have known each other), without actually saying or doing anything inappropriate. One way they accomplish this is to communicate a sense of playfulness or irony.

Related Topics:
Intimacy - Relationship

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Flirting is an important part of courtship. It often also continues into long-term relationships like marriage.

Related Topics:
Courtship - Long-term relationship - Marriage

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Flirting consists of stylized gestures, language, body language, postures, and physiologic signs, some of which are also part of foreplay. Among these, at least in Western society, are:

Related Topics:
Body language - Postures - Physiologic signs - Foreplay - Western society

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• Eye contact
• Casual touches, or what is known in the "fast seduction" community as "kino"
• Smiling suggestively
• "Protean" signals, such as touching one's hair
• Sending and receiving notes, poems, mix-tapes, or written music
• Friendly teasing
• Winking

The etymology of the verb "to flirt" comes from the old French "Conter fleurette", which means "to (try to) seduce" by the dropping of flower leaves. This expression is no longer used in French, but the English "frenchisism" to flirt has made its way and has now become an anglicism.

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