10. If I Send Him Songs Via Email?
This is another reader question. We appreciate all of the questions, gewgaws and flirtations we’ve received so far!
The exchange of music is an age-old prelude to the exchange of fluids. It’s a ritual that dates back even further than the time of Young John Cusack and his heroic boombox serenade in Say Anything. Although that was a landmark moment in flirting history, sending a song by email is a very different matter than sending it by bedroom window whilst standing on top of your car.
Is it flirting? That depends on the song. If you were to send him, for example, Portishead’s “Glory Box”, you would be guilty of flirting in the first degree. Where “Glory Box” is not involved, flirting depends on innuendo and private references between the two of you. We’ll count it as flirting if the song relates to a previous conversation that you only bothered to remember because he gives you the warm tinglies. You could send him Weird Al’s “Jurassic Park,” a song that normally inverts boners at unprecedented speeds, and it’s still flirting if you know he likes it. Blatant sexual references can count, too, but they’re boring if there’s no personal significance attached.
