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<\/a>Cue<\/strong>: Bent Over Posture<\/p>\nSynonym(s)<\/strong>: Rump Presentation, Grinding Against Another Person.<\/p>\n Description<\/strong>: A primarily female posture done by bending forward at the waist facing away from a person (the body language reader or recipient of the cue) such that the rump is presented teasingly.<\/p>\n In One Sentence<\/strong>: Presenting the rump to another person is a sure sign that they are willing to sexually submit.<\/p>\n How To Use it<\/strong>: Women can use the rump presentation to arouse and excite potential male suitors. It is particularly effective in a dance bar type situation. Women should show and grind their rump into men they find interesting to send a clear sexual invitation. Rumps can also allure by bending at the waist in plain view of men women wish to attract. This can be done by bending over to pick up dropped materials, over a photocopy machine and so forth. At times, a subtle rump presentation with a slight bend at the waist is all that is needed.<\/p>\n Presenting the rump can also be accomplished by wearing tight fitting clothing as it puts the rump on full display to potential suitors. When women choose tight fitting leggings, even if they do not completely understand their motives, are displaying their best features in plain view of the world. Therefore, be it conscious or otherwise, they desire and should expect, sexual attention. It is important for motives to be understood such that one can control outcomes as desired.<\/p>\n Women may also use the rump presentation to tease and control men. As the signal is nonverbal it\u2019s meaning can be ambiguous, or, rather, be sent out in a \u201cbroadcast fashion\u201d to many men. Thus, it can serve to solicit, and then reject men \u2013 a power play.<\/p>\n Context<\/strong>: a) Dating.<\/p>\n Verbal Translation<\/strong>: \u201cI\u2019m presenting my rump, it\u2019s a sexual invitation.\u201d \u201cI am offering myself in a passive female role.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m going to wear these tight leggings to show off my sexual virility through a rump display.\u201d<\/p>\n Variant<\/strong>: A bent over posture can be adopted while working or when getting things done that are out of reach such as tying a shoe or picking up something that has fallen which has no sexual meaning at all due to its absence of eye contact as an anchor of intent. See Courtship Displays (Category).<\/p>\n Cue In Action<\/strong>: a) While dancing, Julie rubbed up against him in a sexual manner. It almost became a habit, every day, she\u2019d purposely drop things on the floor near his desk and suggestively bend at the waste to pick them up \u2013 she was trying to get his sexual attention. a) She decided to wear tight fitting pants to show off her tight rump.<\/p>\n Meaning and\/or Motivation<\/strong>: Bending over is a submissive appeasement posture when done facing away with the rump toward the recipient. It is an overt sexual invitation as it is a nonverbal request to \u201cbe mounted.\u201d Young girls might be seen doing this while dancing in nightclubs as they grind on men teasingly. The bow has origins in the same submissive bent over posture, however it is usually, but not always, is done facing the person who is more dominate and has no sexual meaning.<\/p>\n Bending over might be thought of as an overt posture, but it often happens quite inconspicuously and quite subconsciously. It is commonplace for movies to use the overt rump over presentation coupled with over the shoulder eye contact, but this is rare in real life. Women who are receptive commonly act teasingly without even knowing it, as they emit nonverbal invitations to pursue on a purely emotional level. Women have also been shown to display sexually as broadcast signals where sexual message are sent out at random hoping to achieve the attention of worthy mates.<\/p>\n Cue Cluster<\/strong>: Rump presentation is usually accompanied with other sexually suggestive cues such as hair tossing, neck displays, licking the lips, eye contact while looking over the shoulder and so forth.<\/p>\n Body Language Category<\/strong>: Courtship display, Indicators of sexual interest (IOsI), Readiness to submit postures, Submissive body language, Tie signals. Aggarwal, Pankaj and Min Zhao. Seeing the Big Picture: The Effect of Height on the Level of Construal. Journal of Marketing Research, forthcoming; 2014<\/p>\n How Height Embodies Your Thinking \u2013 The Height of Marketing<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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