It is not easy to get in contact with the opposite sex. Although nowadays women are very emancipated, in many cases men still have to do the legwork and the courting. Here are three approaches that, for the sake of successful courtship, should best be banned from your vocabulary altogether:

• Wow, for your age you look really great!
• I find your crowfeet really sexy.
• You know, I like your personality, beauty is not so important for me.