Picking up women and girls is something every straight young guy should learn early. Or call it something else. Courtship. Flirtation. Seduction. The Dance. Whatever it is, it’s primal and wired in. Few things are more fun or more natural. Hundreds of thousands of years. Churches, museums, quadrangles, village squares. Bars, stores, parties, streets. Bowling alleys and private clubs. Parlors and kitchens.
The Courtship, Thomas Eakins, 1878