Communication and Courtship

Once she has found the kind of male she wants to start a relationship with, the woman has to find a safe way to communicate her interest to him, a way to advertise directly to him excluding others.
She could be direct, approach him and tell him that she likes him and that she would like to know him better or she could send strong signals in his direction to let him know about her interest.

However, these strategies would be inappropriate. In both cases, she would run the same risk run by men when they directly approach women: open rejection in front of other people.
In the second scenario, she also risks her signals to be intercepted by other males who could wrongly think that those signals were intended for them or, in the worst case, that she is an available woman.

In any case, she risks to be approached by the wrong males, not the ones she is looking for. The best way to reduce risks to a minimum is to use a mix of subtle signals that are not easily visible by the casual person and that send a sort of subliminal message to the receiver.

These signals are a subset of the family of communication. Communication is basically the transmission of information between people. Information can be ideas, thoughts, knowledge, emotions, feelings, etc...

For communication to exist, there have to be two or more people exchanging information: the transmitter/s and the receiver/s. The transmitter “send” the information to the receiver that, in turn, decode the received message (e.g. try to understand if our “nice to see you” means “I am happy to meet you” or “I would like to be somewhere else now”) and, eventually, send a message in return.

This process goes on until one or more of the people involved decide to put an end to the transmissions.