At a party once, I decided to give flirting a go. I asked a man what he was doing afterwards. He said, ‘I’m going to go home, lift some weights, then I’ll probably throw up, then lift some more weights, have a protein drink, lift more weights and throw up again.’ ‘Why do you keep throwing up?’ I asked, horrified, backing away. ‘Because when you’re really pumping iron, you get such a rush of testosterone, it makes you throw up.’ It suddenly dawned on me that this might be flirting. I liked him, so I decided to flirt back. ‘Yeah, I’ll probably go home and do some needlepoint and then I’ll get
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