Five-Step Guide to Flirting Better

The essential problem remains - for you, flirting has to end with sex! Unfortunately, women - especially smart, beautiful and successful ones - flirt for harmless fun without expecting sex. Don't worry because evolutionary psychologists are doing that for you. Just know that flirting is man's way of engaging pleasurably with a member of the opposite sex and women flirt as a way of checking you out without compromising themselves. While men use flirting to initiate sex, you can appear like a sex starved sociopath unless you...

Maintain minimal contact: If you overdo your physically-touching bit, you'll just scare her away! Keep the physical bits zipped to pulling a chair out for her at a bistro, allowing her to go first for everything and hailing a cab. That way she can trust that you're patient and a gentleman (really?).

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Relax the Salman bit: You may be well endowed and have six pack abs, but there is a danger that you appear like a Salman Khan type who's careless with women. She'll think of you as a guy who flirts for sport and enjoys the thrill of a lucky wild night. May seem macho to you, but women don't always dig it.

Choose Confidence: You may be the guy who's dark and brooding in a corner because you want to appear like Ajay Devgan... all strong and silent. But this doesn't always work. Unless you're acting in a movie or a very serious play! You'll seem like a stalker who's jealous and lacking self-confidence! Enjoy the time you get to flirt and use it wisely!

Control Flirting: It's like flight control except here, you've to concentrate on a choice instead of seeming like a womanizer. Focus on the girl at hand and move on if doesn't work out. Remember, women are extremely wary of men whom they've seen talking to other women! Catch the drift?

Ease up on the Tech: You have text, e-mail and messenger and Facebook to flirt but if you're not a wordsmith (whom no one cares for in the online world) then you're a digital pirate whose trigger is pulled by the woman in question! Best practice-think about your messages before sending them! If they sound weird while you read them, they ARE weird! Edit like Shakespeare if necessary.