Footsie is one of the best-loved flirting techniques. It can be played under restaurant tables while sex dating or office desks, and in a slightly more open way it can be played simply when sitting next to someone on a sofa or standing next to them.

There's no need to go straight in with removing your shoe and sensually rubbing your toes up someone's leg. That's tantamount to coming out with a chat-up line like 'What winks and is great in bed?' and then winking at them.

It's far safer to begin by aligning your foot with theirs and applying a little bit of pressure. It's the sort of thing that could happen by mistake very easily, so if their foot recoils from you all you need say is that you thought it was the chair leg or a bag.

If the foot stays there, try increasing the pressure. It will either lead to one of you stroking the other one's foot, or to a battle for legroom under the table.Setting up artificial reasons for body contact.

Physical contact can be instigated on the grounds of some kind of game or analysis. These techniques are great for flirting and can accelerate the process from initial chat to physical confidence with each other.

Any if things fail you get a resounding whack on your bums or slap on the face. But believe me it is all worth it.

Footsie anyone!