Victorian Flirting Was Super Crazy Complicated

Apparently a simple “I like you” was too low-brow. Nothing keeps the riff-raff out like a complex set of arbitrary rules. posted on January 7, 2013 at 10:53am EST

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I would never have gotten laid in the Victorian Era.
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