I guess I just don’t understand the question – at all. I like talking to folks, sometimes to pass the time, sometimes to obtain or deliver information that may be important to me or the other party, sometimes to make pleasant or humorous observations, and sometimes – most rarely – to attempt to open or further a dialog with an end in mind: to get to know someone, male or female, with the possibility of creating or furthering the relationship. That doesn’t mean that I want to have sexual relations with men – at all (not that there’s anything wrong with that) – and not that I want to bed every woman I have ever spoken to. (And there probably is something wrong with that, but it’s not my judgment; just not my style.)
I also don’t have particular limits on who I will start a conversation with – kids and pre-teens, even infants on occasion, girls and women, boys and men of all ages and economic circumstances and cultures. I like making connections in that way. Small talk? Until you stand at a podium or sit at a judge’s bench, it’s all small talk as far as I’m concerned. And I don’t mind it at all, though I also don’t respond to it all.
I will admit that I would like to make some physical – and emotional – connections with particular women at particular times, irrespective of propriety sometimes (but always with a clear eye on legality and morality), but that doesn’t mean that any woman who responds to a conversational gambit of mine is risking her virtue. It’s usually not on the table. (Well, if her virtue is “on the table”, it’s an entirely different conversation, anyway.) In any case, I can read non-verbal cues, and if my interest isn’t reciprocated then I move on. No harm on either side.
So if it’s an either / or thing, then I’m fucked (or not, if the question is intended that way). I’m back to a basic confusion about the intended aim of the whole question. Not talk to women? Why ever not? “Look at their bodies”? Really? That’s not all that they’re for, to be looked at. But yes, I do like to look. And touch. And be touched and spoken to, in turn.