Courtship Signals – Gestures and Postures – 2

Passing to the gestures produced with the rest of the body, the most frequent are: the smoothing of the clothing, even if it is not needed, removing the folds from the skirt, for instance, or straightening the collar of the blouse. This communicates a message of the type: "I am a precise and ordinate person and, I know how to take care of myself”.

A gesture that is often produced by the woman, especially if she has an object nearby, is the caressing or the fiddling of that object, being it a ring, a glass or other.This type of gesture can also be interpreted as a sexual call.

If there are no objects around, the woman can caress a part of her own body, for example, an arm or a leg.In this category, we also mention the woman frequent movement of hands and arms that accompanies the conversation if she is in presence of a  person from which she is attracted.

The last gesture is palming, in which the woman turns the palm of her hand toward the man, while she is flipping her hair for instance, in sign of submission and un-aggressiveness. This is a gesture similar to the neck exposure that we have seen in another article.

The contrary of this gesture, that is, the showing of the back of the hand instead of the palm, has exactly the opposite meaning and it’s generally showed toward people that we prefer to keep away from us.On the third and last category, there are the following postures: the lean. This posture is often present between two people that know each other very well.

Leaning toward the other person, for example while she is speaking, makes her feel that we are interested to what she is saying. When someone senses the interest of the other person, he feels appreciated and reciprocates with the same feeling directed to the other person.

This posture is almost always produced in an unconscious and natural way, but it is also possible to knowingly reproduce it creating, in an artificial way, a pleasant relationship with the other person that, feeling gratified by our interest, will reciprocate with greater sympathy toward us.