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Flirting?

Started by Renate, November 21, 2009, 08:56:05 PM

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Renate

I know many of us have spent many years being uncomfortable in social situations.
So what about flirting now?
Do you flirt?
Do you flirt with people that you're not necessarily interested in?
Do you flirt with genders that you're not necessarily interested in?
How does one flirt?
Should one stick to the truth or spin tales (either obvious or subtle)?
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Osiris

Flirting is one of my favorite past times. :P

I don't really flirt with people I'm not interested in because I don't want to string them along or make them expect things of me I can't deliver.

How does one flirt? Everyone has their own style and it varies with who you're flirting with. You can tell if you're being too aggressive or if you need to change things up. But it's all kinda subconscious.

I think the closer to the truth you are the better. You don't want to say something you'd consider outrageous and then have the person you're talking to decide they wanna do outrageous stuff with you that you wouldn't really want to do.
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aubrey

I enjoy it so much more now that I'm more comfortable in my own skin, and I'm very sarcastic and kind of like messing with them a little. One problem though is that sometimes I get way too giddy and act like a schoolgirl and can't stop laughing, which kind of ruins it for some guys, the hotter they are, the more i get giddy and make a fool of myself. I'll flirt with guys that I'm only sort of attracted to if they start it, for fun, but no way would I flirt with females, just not my thing.
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Janet_Girl

When I was working I loved flirting with my male customers.  But now I am not so sure.

A slight smile, head tilted just so.  Always worked.



Janet
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Hannah

I flirt with guys all the time. I'll make eye contact in the grocery store, try to chat somebody up at the filling station, god I was even flirting with a professor the other day before I realized it and he's not even remotely my type. It comes so naturally now that it sometimes suprised even me. I have no problem with spinning tales about my genetic history, it's not really an issue now but it will be one day.

I can't flirt with girls. Ew, lol  :) Actually, I have to watch myself because they are such foreign creatures to me that I tend to come off as cold. I'm trying to make female friends but it's harder than it looks.
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Jeatyn

I flirt with everyone, all the time, I don't even mean to do it half the time. It just happens

I do find myself slipping in to being all girly and cutesy when I flirt with guys and then I'm like "euw, stop that" - I can't help it, I know it works :P
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Miniar

I am told I'm a terrible flirt...

I have been for years...

I have no idea what it is that I'm doing that's "flirting"...



"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell" - Nietzsche
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gothique11

Quote from: Miniar on November 23, 2009, 06:32:09 AM
I am told I'm a terrible flirt...

I have been for years...

I have no idea what it is that I'm doing that's "flirting"...

Same here -- I some how do it but I don't know how. o_0
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Nicky

I seem to be a natural flirt.

It is just a little bit of cheekyness, bit of risky innuendo, mixed with making someone centre of attention, little compliments, being a little bold, being slightly familiar, having a little giggle at someways silly ways but not mocking, more like delight in their odd bits. Dunno. I do it with everyone, I don't really think about it much. It is not something I decide to turn on, just happens when I am feeling good. I guess flirting is just making someone feel flattered and special by your attention. It does not have to have any sexual connotations. I suspect body language is really important but I don't pay much attention to mine - maybe plenty of eye contact, leaning in to create your own intimate space in a crowd, smiling, being a good listener, shutting out other distractions. I've been known to bat my eyes a little, but in such a way that it is obviously put on for them, but people love that stuff. It is like a little in joke.  I tend not to touch people even though I like being touched myself. I'm definitly a hands off flirter. But I hear a hand on say the arm does wonders - make sure they are drawn in first otherwise you might be seen as invading personal space.

Sometimes I will make up outragous stories about someone to other people right in front of them, like how they have this awsome tatoo on their behind..Somehow I am believable..and people wonder how I have seen it and everyone starts imagining..all in good natured fun.

One cheesy example I remember, because someone pointed it out, I was doing some presentations around my organisation and there was this young woman in the audience who I thought looked familiar and might have been at an earlier presentation. So I asked her in front of everyone, and chatted about how she has a double, and I finished by saying "Don't worry, she was good looking". I like to flirt with an audience.

It does not seem to occur with people I have no connection with. You have to get something reflected back for it to work - kind of a feedback loop.

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