Assume that we are talking about a stranger (yes of the opposite sex, so I’m not trying to parse what your actual orientation is and thus whether you would be interested or not), approaching you in a public place, and trying to either chat you up, and/or at least giving you “the look” pretty unambiguously, at close range.
NOTE: this is a two-part poll, with one vote, top half for the men, bottom half for the women. Please vote accordingly.
I think I might have been once in my life. Although even then I’m not really sure.
Once, years and years ago when I was hitch hiking to college, an older man turned around in order to give me a ride. He kept touching my thigh. It didn’t occur to me until much later that he might have been hitting on me.
It’s gone down tremendously since leaving LA. The men out there, I’m convinced, are entirely insane. It went from multiple times weekly to about a few times here and there a month. I must say, I prefer being left the hell alone while running errands.
It depends on how often I’m in a predominately male Hispanic location. For some reason they are all over me. I think they appreciate big girls. 
Ah FFS, I apologise for my inability to read. For some reason I thought this was same sex, not opposite sex. Subtract one “Male: Never” and add one “Male: A handful of times total”.
At least once a week. It used to annoy me…but I just smile and say Thanks.
If they pursue it…then I can pull out the “I’m married and have a million kids card”. Lol.
I actually met one of my friends like this. I was flying back home from a conference and this younger guy tried to hit on me, even changed seats to sit by me. After be got the hint I wasn’t interested…we actually started talking and are now friends. His now girlfriend can’t believe how we are friends. Lol
Never that im aware of
Ha! Clearly I cannot read either!
Same!
>.<
So change from ‘A few times a decade’ to um…not much lately! I don’t dress up, in an area where women dress up before getting in the shower I swear. So I don’t attract the locals 
Gay guy here - Never.
Although there were two women who offered to help “fix” me.
I think it happened once at a party, and once while I was waiting for a streetcar, but otherwise, it was never common, and has only gotten rarer.
Hasn’t happened much since I passed my late-40s, darn it. 
Gray hair and obvious middle-aged-ness is a flirt killer.
But before that, a regular occurence. One a week or more when I was younger. Enough so it was annoying.
Definitely a few times when I was still in high school.
Since then? I haven’t noticed any forms of flirtation at all; I wouldn’t rule out that it has indeed happened, though. I’m not really the best at picking up those sorts of cues, and women aren’t exactly obvious in the ways in which they flirt.
The bigger question is: At what point is the girl no longer just being friendly but actually being genuinely flirtatious?
This. Everyone knows I’m gay, so there’d be no reason, other than trying to “fix” me. That happened a few times back in college, not recently.
I picked a few times a month or some such. It’s much less now that I’m in my 40s. I think I just have one of those approachable faces. It’s not something I find I miss.
I put down a few times but the only reason I know that is from what happened afterwards. Even then I wasn’t quite sure until they explained what they had done. I honestly don’t know what hitting on someone is other than asking them directly for sex or at least a slow dance. I think that is a common problem for men. Those of us who treat women well in general can’t distinguish between someone offering to take you to breakfast sometime or a hint that breakfast would be after a night at your place.
Ladies, you have to be extremely blunt to the large percentage of the men that aren’t players and even then, it only has a 50-50 shot of sinking in. The real players and scumbags ruin it for us all but you have to differentiate. A small percentage of men are doing 90% of the market cold calling. The rest of us have to live with the stereotype but without the same strategies at all.
I liked it when I lived in New Orleans and hung out some notable older gay men. I am not gay in the least but they would pay for everything and let you know very explicitly how fuckworthy you were on a given night. If females could capture even 5% of that, we might have something.
I picked once a month, as an average – there are times when I’m busy and don’t really hang out much at all.
Also, I’m honestly not sure who’s the hitter and the hittee most of the time – conversations just kind of happen and there’s often a good bit of flirting or the topic turns to sexual nature. Not interested in starting anything ever at this point in time, so I don’t usually pay attention except enjoy having some good conversation. Maybe fifty/fifty I start a conversation vs. have it started on me, but I have a lot of conversations when I’m out and about, so call it once a month to be safe.
In short, I don’t know or care what hitting on really is, apart from mildly flirtatious conversation. ETA deleted anecdote, sounded like stealth bragging, which is not my intention.
I’d say it happens a couple 2-3 times a week on average, usually at the grocery store, gas station, really anywhere that I’m getting out of my car. I can’t say I really love it, but I prefer it to the alternative, as long as the guy isn’t rude about it.
Speaking of rude, a few weeks ago I was at the grocery store and as I walked in a guy standing there with his friend kinda said hi to me, so I nodded and walked on. As I walked past them, I heard the guy loudly say something like, “Oh yeah, that’s kinda thick, I like that nice ass,” or something to that effect. That shit pisses me off like nothing else and I whipped right around and gave that asshole a piece of my mind. I just couldn’t get over the fact that he was talking about me like I couldn’t even hear him…within earshot, and eyeballing me like a piece of meat. Honestly, the nerve of some people. It makes me mad all over again to even type it out.
Luckily, that sort of thing doesn’t happen very often.
I put never but now that I think about that’s not really true. But in general the women who have been attracted to me weren’t the kind that hit on guys for some reason. I’m 44 by the way. I think women in a lower age bracket are more forward.
Those douches sound like they need a fresh douche with drain cleaner, but are you really pissed? I can’t tell if you’re just slightly pissed off or genuinely angry.