Body language alone can't tell you if someone wants to be touched. Relying on it rests on assumption and arrogance, and a misread can turn a date disastrous. Ask directly instead.
Why is body language then potentially dangerous? Well, if 2 people are on a date and it's going great, and one of them makes a move the other one doesn't want, could this go disastrous really, really quick if this is a sexual advance they're making on someone? Yes or no? Yes. Yes. Here's why. Body language relies on 2 things. Body language relies on assumption and arrogance. Assumption: I know exactly what your movement meant and exactly what you want to experience based on a movement of body language. Right. And the arrogance that I have the right to act on it without confirmation.
