Questions: Flirting

I asked this girl (colleague known for a month) some help in the computer while I was holding the mouse.
While helping, she started to move the mouse by placing her hand on top of my hand. She did not take away her hand at all from my hand.

Apart from this, she usually looks at me when I am working and not looking at her. She often stands close to me and sits near by me.
Sometimes she lingers her forearm on my forearm while helping me on the computer.

Say you're driving with someone new or a coworker. Or just having a one on one conversation. If a person removes his/her mask, is this a signal? Or just covid relief?

I like older women, have been since my school days.

I've been Rejected many times, as recent as yesterday.
Was talking to this woman at work & decided to take a chance.

She turned me down for looking too young, She said she was too old for me.
She said I looked 18, I’m turning 21 next Month. Then she eventually pulled the Married card.

I know she wasn’t, I’ve unknowingly hit on married women & That’s the first thing they’ll say.

Should I give up?

Being sex-zoned means that someone only sees you from a sexual perspective. That for some reason, they think you are only good for sex, not for a friendship or anything else.

There is this thing that I hate about the men and women I come across, around 50% of the women I come across sex-zone me, and the other 50% of the women friend-zone me. As for men, straight men do not really like me, too much competition comes between us and it ruins the friendship. With bisexual and gay men, the only thing they want from me is sex.

This is very annoying to me, because I am not interested in friendships without sex, and I am not interested in sex without friendships. I need a strong emotional and physical bond with a friend, only after that do I feel like I am close enough to them. If I do not feel that level of closeness with them, then I am not able to trust them, and feel attached to them, which would lead to me moving on from the friendship sooner or later.

And I need some sort of an emotional bond with a person to be able to enjoy anything sexual with them, otherwise I cannot do it. Without an emotional bond, or mutual admiration of one or more personality traits at least, having sex with a person will feel like I am being raped, and/or that I am raping someone.

This is really important to know ~ the stakes are high.