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Flirtation: Deconstructed

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In this article, I explore the sexual basis of flirting. The investigation is conducted in the deconstructive register. For my initial description of flirting, I rely on a sample from popular psychology which tends to approach flirtation as the art of erotic seduction predicated on sexuality. With this definition, I proceed to the analysis set as a dialectic of critique and argument, with the subsequent redefinition of the phenomenon. My main methodology is deconstruction carried out in the style of Jean Baudrillard, who problematized the sexuality-based definition of flirtation by showing it to be an ambiguous phenomenon predicated on ambiguity, seduction, and agon.

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    Alexander Kozin

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Kozin, A. Flirtation: Deconstructed. Sexuality & Culture 20, 358–372 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-015-9328-8

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