African Flirtation and Seduction Culture

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Writes - Christine Akiteng

Most Westerners who visit Africa report that Africans do not kiss or cuddle in "public" and thus conclude that Africans are not affectionate towards each other or Africans do not flirt. What they fail to see, and is probably beyond their imagination is the intensity and subtlety of African seduction. Two people can pay each other's whole body compliments, ask questions and engage in sexual foreplay just with eye expression alone.

Those familiar with the body language that accompanies this "gaze-seduction" know what is happening. So when two people "disappear", others in their company know they are "doing it". I've had incidences when two people return after you-know-what and my western companions innocently ask "where have you been?" drawing giggles and sometimes loud laughter from those of us who know.

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