Conversation Openers For Romantic Purposes
Not to be confused as pickup lines, conversation starters are used to engage a person to pursue sexual or romantic interest. It is also commonly called "openers". Most sources concur that body language and tone of voice play as much as, or a greater role in, the effectiveness of openers used with romantic intentions as the actual words. Non-verbal cues communicate most of the information about confidence level and other aspects of the internal state of the person. Eric a.k.a. Disco recommends using the "familiar voice tone" in which one uses the same tone of voice in approaching a stranger as one would an old friend.
The book Routines Manual of Love Systems contains examples of conversation openers used by pickup artists. The goal of such a conversation starter is to engage a woman into normal conversation. The effectiveness of the opener, "Hello, I'm John Smith," is controversial. How to Meet Women describes it as "...a classic move - simple, but devastatingly effective" while the Seduction Bible suggests, "Don’t give her your name. This is the first tool to confirm that she is interested in you. Instead, ask for her name. Once she says her name, compliment it and start talking. If after a while she asks you for your name, it means she is interested. If she doesn’t ask for your name, it means she doesn’t care."
Pick-up lines are conversation openers intended as overt, sometimes humorous displays of romantic interest.
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Famous quotes containing the words conversation, romantic and/or purposes:
“In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in all things, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)