On Flirtation

Without flirtation, human hypocrisy would lose its clothing.

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The defining quality of flirtation is that it is self-denying. Flirtation ceases to be flirtation as soon as it is made explicit. It is marked by not being a direct touch but rather an approach and an insinuation, for tension can always be intensified up until the moment it causes a break.