"why the "discomfort", I wonder?"
I'm not really upset with you, or feeling that you need to apologize, MtheGM. I think it may just be that, when I've heard phrasing like that, it has too often been from men who believed that they lived in a world with a lot of "prick teasers" which to them could be any woman who acted at all friendly but who then refused to offer up anything that was grabbed for. So it's more of a superficial reaction. I'm not reading you as being a person at that level.