before this, my previous sexual experience was basically the occasional nymphomaniac pouncing on me - enjoyable - but I never really closed a girl myself, she closed me!

So you can be sitting, lying down, standing or whatever - but I always now go through the hands. You can touch hands real gently, stroking, touching, and it just bridges the gap nice between conversation to the moves. Also, its a risk free maneuvre to see if she's interested. If she starts touching back, she is, and if she isn't really getting it, you can just make the 'sensitive: hand touching' into 'insensitive: hand touching' and just start poking it, or flopping it around as if you're just bored and mucking around with her.

Also, you can breach this sort of contact before hand by pretending to read her palms - if. like me, you can't be bothered to read up on palm reading, just make it up.

Since i did this first - i've closed every girl i wanted to this way, i've even tried not doing it, just to see, and it was pretty awkward (for me at least) So this is my standard closer!

*grabs palm*
thats a hand...

lol yeah, but if you're giving her a palm read thats touching hands under a pretext - if you're silent and just playing, thats something different and heading toward a close.

BUT breaching hand contact first, under this pretext, is a good way to make her comfortable with the more direct hand interactions. (thats what I meant...)

I agree. The hands are a great mediocre starting point for kino. I personally like to brush shoulders with her or stand near her in a non-awkward, but very definite way so that she knows I'm touching her on purpose.

Thighs, waist and neck are good ones, too. Just don't be creepy about it, in my opinion. Any sort of socially acceptable touching is a GO!

Just adding my two cents here. Didn't mean to preach!