Friendship and Flirting: Micro-Politics in Kerala, South India

Factors that shape young people's sexual behaviour: a systematic review

“…p 163, South Africa, urban young man 67 Young people may avoid discussing sex for fear that raising the possibility may lead to loss of face or hurting others' feelings (through rejection), or damage to reputation (through seeming inappropriately forward). 46,57,68 This makes safer sex difficult to plan: if the possibility of sexual intercourse is not acknowledged, contraception is unlikely to be discussed. 16,56,64 Young people could also be reluctant to discuss condom use in case it is seen as equivalent to proposing or agreeing to sex.…”

Cyberspace as Potential Space: Considering the Web as a Playground to Cyber-Flirt

“…A question we propose for future thinking about cyber-flirting is whether these power relations can be transcended online. For instance, cyber-flirting might be more akin to the game of flirting that Osella and Osella (1998) delineate in respect to offline flirtation.…”

Flirting diasporically: visits ‘home’ facilitating diasporic encounters and complex communities

“…Flirtation is a conversational competence drawing on complex embodied and linguistic resources, and requiring skills of ambiguity, subterfuge, indirectness and morally encoded subtleties of pitch (Carey 2012;Egland, Spitzberg, and Zormeier 1996;Tavory 2009). These competences are more than communicative: they are learned over time and through practice, as a skill of knowing what kinds of approaches might be considered appropriate and correct, the purposes and effects of different responses, and how those work into local social organisation (Osella and Osella 1998). The complexity of this interactional achievement requires mutual understanding of contexts, categories, and 'appropriateness' to function as a positive experience of 'respectful' flirtation, and not a negative experience of harassment.…”