"I was reading your comments on the good men project where you said: "For me a creep is a guy who either touches me without my consent or makes sexually inappropriate remarks about me or my body." Can you please explain to me how people should go from being strangers to being a couple or lovers? And how specifically does a person "consent" to being touched for the first time? Does the person say "Ok, I have deemed you attractive and a possible mate, so you may proceed to the stage where you may touch me for the first time"? I'm not being sarcastic. I am asking a genuine question. I'm pretty certain most relationships are formed with one of the persons being one to perform a touch first. All the flirting guides I have read, as well as all the scientific guides describe the human mating process, one where one of the two individuals performs a test by performing a touch, or hinting at something sexual, and seeing how the other person performs. In fact, that's part of "assessing consent"...." - Alek