Flirting without follow-up is fun when the object of your flattery is a straight woman loving the attention, even from a lesbian. Use your feminine wiles, masculine ways or gender-bending mystique to remind that gal of her womanly attractions, guaranteeing a lift to her mood and a balm to her ego. If you can’t resist the temptation, follow these steps to learn how to flirt with a straight woman.

Instructions

1. Start with eye contact. A woman who doesn’t want to engage in badinage shifts her eyes away, the woman open to flirtation keeps her eyes on yours.
2. Keep the eye contact going, and keep the conversation rolling. compliment her shoes, ask her a question and make witty observations about the person across the room.
3. Talk about her. She spends every day hearing what he says, thinks and wants, whether “he” is the husband, the co-worker, the neighbor or her 3-year-old son who thinks he’s the center of the world—-let the conversation be about her.
4. Use body language. Lean slightly forward on the counter at the coffee shop, tilt your head to show interest as you sit side by side on the sofa or give the impression that you have all the time in the world (as your legs grow numb from standing), for her.
5. Tailor your persona. Is she wickedly insightful, good as gold, world weary and cynical or wholesome as a warm slice of wheat bread? Empathize with her point of view, or conversely, offer a polar opposite persona to strike her interest: accentuate your naughty side for the good as gold, suggest a dissolute lifestyle to the wholesome, offer optimistic charm to the world weary.
6. Slip in compliments. As the opportunities arise, few women are impervious to praise, and some are downright addicted.
7. Leave with regret. Always leaving them wanting more works just as well for flirtation as for entertainment. When you must tear yourself away from her company to help another customer, arrive at an appointment on time or pick up your partner from work, leave her with a look that says, “It made my day meeting you.”

Tips & Warnings

• Offer compliments that have a grounding in truth; untrue assertions will ring alarm bells in a straight woman’s brain—-few are so self-deluding that they can’t see a false compliment coming miles away, and those few are psychotic, so beware.
• Enjoy the chit chat and she will too; if you’re out to prove your attractiveness by hitting on a straight woman, no one wins, but if you’re out to have a good time playing social badminton without a net, you’ll both have fun and go home satisfied.
• Never give the straight woman your address, or next thing you know, she may be pulling up with a moving truck.
• Don’t mistake flirtation for seduction, there is a difference. The goal is to elicit a flutter of her heart, a flush of pleasure at the attention and a slight sense of enjoyable guilt for being drawn into flirtation with a woman, not for you to become a home wrecker.
• Don’t be surprised if she’s not as straight as you thought she was, and she begins flirting with you; unconscious gaydar is a powerful instrument.

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