The Attraction Academy: Class is Now in Session!

Flirting and attraction go hand in hand I suppose: you find yourself attracted to that certain someone and then try to get his or her attention, often with mixed results. I read somewhere that men are supposed to be attracted by a woman's looks and women by a man's earning power, although I've never quite figured out how a woman can subconsciously know what a man's earning power is while she's flirting. I've been married so long I don't remember if I flirted with my wife or vice-versa. I DO know that back then I was so broke I could hardly afford a cup of coffee much less a date. (So much for the "women-are-attracted-by-earning-power" theory). So who the heck knows what caught my wife's attention.

Which I guess leads me to wonder just WHAT is attractive in the first place. An article on ScienceDaily.com proclaimed that a recent study showed that women look for men who are less attractive than themselves. That's a little arrogant if you ask me. If men are attracted to an attractive woman, and that women displays interest only if the guy is less attractive than she is than I think there are a couple of ego issues to work out before heading down the alter.

Yep, flirtation and attraction. I wouldn't go as far as saying flirting is a lost art - but I'm convinced it belongs in a class by itself. It takes two to flirt -- the sender and the receiver. These days everything is so darn politically correct I guess the roles and methods of flirting are more confusing than Hilary Clinton's political agenda. That's why the Attraction Academy exists -- to encourage people to look each other in the eye and feel the sense of connection that comes when you're having fun and making eye contact.

The Attraction Academy is the brainchild of Peta Heskell who actually coined the name "Flirt Coach" and developed (and patented) the concept of "Flirt Coaching" about 10 years ago. Peta founded the UK Flirting Academy in 1998 and that concept was so popular that the natural offshoot of the school just HAD to be the Attraction Academy which kicked off in 2003 and has been happily helping men and women ever since.