In most of these stories, someone does something stupid, and the target doesn't immediately blow up.. they instead ask the other person to stop or leave them alone first.

So "flirt" by all means but as soon as someone tells you to leave them alone, that's the absolute end of it. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be happening in most of these stories.

That's true - in a story like this it seems obvious. I just worry that it might not always be so obvious in effect. In fact looking to the US across the pond, some of the rules around dating and sexual harassment already seem quite scary. Basically it seems really easy to ruin somebody's life with twisted interpretations of their behavior.

Another example of such laws gone wrong is maybe the sexting teenagers who are now on file as pedophiles.