my crush stopped showing overt, blatant sexual interest in favor of helping/sharing/caring like behaviors towards me...we've been getting to know each other and act as a team, and have become more open about ourselves but more shy toward each other. he smiles bashfully when i tease him, and shares personal info about himself, and offers me help, looking afraid that ill say no. sometimes he'll make an innuendo, but then quickly changes the topic instead of going on like he used to. we look at each other kinda tenderly, not in a lusty/mischievous way anymore.

even though i know we are still attracted to each other and want to bang, it feels wrong to flirt with so much sexual interest like we used to. like its disrespectful or embarassing now.

why is this?
like, he steers teh convo away from sexual topics, even though we used to talk about racy stuff all the time.