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Summary Athens topped a World Flirtation League, which ranked cities by the number of online flirtations initiated per month by the average user on the online social networking site 'Badoo'.
A new study has revealed that the home of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, Athens is the most flirtatious city of the modern world. Moscow came second, while Rome placed 8th and Madrid 31st. The romantic city, Paris was ranked at 38, London 57th, Berlin 79th, and New York 89th. In the study, 200 cities across the world in which 12 million flirtatious contacts were made during a month, with 108 million users chatting and flirting in 180 countries.The average user in Athens initiated 25.7 online flirtations per month. That figure is over twice as many as in Rio (12.4), Warsaw (12.1) or Prague (12.6) and far more than in Paris (20.7), London (19.0), Berlin (17.7) or New York (16.1).Tunis, Kuwait and Beirut are among three Arab cities to make the world top 10, along with three former Soviet ones Moscow, Kiev and Baku in Azerbaijan. The Italians were not far behind as Turin, Rome and Bari which made it into the top of the list.Simon Hardy, author of ‘The Greeks, Eroticism and Ourselves’ and British academic said, It is probably fair to say that the Athenians perfected the art of flirtation in ancient times, especially at the time of symposia described by Plato.”
