We may be witnessing the "end of flirtation as we know it" in October, 2018. Youngish people, caught up only in social media don't flirt, they overwhelm! Nude selfies, sexting, provocative statements -- are more of an outright attack or challenge rather than an enticement. We have sunk to the level of a dirty French post card as our first encounter with someone. Mailboxes are crowded with cock shots and vagina monologues.
All sense of romance is lost; all sense is lost. Now we try to manipulate each other from the outset. We betray each other's humanity, we kill any sense of mystery-- of the body, of sex, of fantasy, of love. " Come hither has come and gone!"
Romance is preserved only in literature. And most of us no longer read. I fear for the future of love beyond objectification of the opposite (or the same) sex.
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