The Art of Flirtation
For when you are bored or when you need to bind someone with your charms.
In general culture, flirtation is often taken as a means to an end — a set of gestures or acts that are to accomplish the desired relational outcome. But just as utilitarian cannot be a lover, the utilitarian can neither know the true essence of flirtation — which is more than pursuit of an outcome, even if the outcome happens to come. Flirtation, done freely and openly, even with strangers, is an act of generosity and tenderness towards both self and the other — an offering of a piece of sunshine on a gloomy day. An exchange for the sake of exchange and the pleasure for the sake of pleasure.