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How can men flirt with or approach women on the street to whom they are attracted while minimising the chance that this will be intrusive, creepy, or threatening?

 

Pick-up artist culture:

By Elwood Watson

My colleague Kenton Bell compiled these two useful lists, one on 'Critical Responses to Emma Watson speech to the UN' and the other on 'Additional pop-cultural readings asking and answering the question: Can Men be Feminists?'. Critical Responses to Emma Watson speech to the UN. • “The Most Important Words in Emma Watson's Speech Were About Masculinity” by Nicki Cole o http://sociology.about.com/od/Current-Events-in-Sociological-Context/fl… • “Emma Watson Speech Hardly a Game-changer” by Clementine Ford

Anyone who works with young people and is looking for a resource to tackle the vexed question of pornography and its often negative effects would find the ‘It’s time we talked’ website extremely useful.

 

 

(This post is about men who are in heterosexual relationships.  While much of what I discuss here would no doubt also apply to relationships between people of any genders, as a straight guy I only feel qualified to comment on men’s role in romantic relationships that occur between men and women.)