The Art of Seduction

It must represent not only your victory but everyone else’s defeat.

or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something. —ALFRED DE MUSSET

Flynn, Errol. My Wicked, Wicked Ways. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1959.

John F. Kennedy, the most seductive American public figure of modern times, was a walking paradox: an East Coast aristocrat with a love of the common man, an obviously masculine man—a war hero—with a vulnerability you could sense underneath, an intellectual who loved popular culture.

The main obstacle to becoming a seducer is this foolish prejudice we have of seeing love and romance as some kind of sacred, magical realm where things just fall into place, if they are meant to. This might seem romantic and quaint, but it is really just a cover for our laziness. What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, sh

The siren call of seduction is irresistible because power is irresistible, and nothing will bring you more power in the modern world than the ability to seduce. Repressing the desire to seduce is a kind of hysterical reaction, revealing your deep-down fascination with the process; you are only making your desires stronger. Some day they will come t

We are saturated in the seductive. But even if much has changed in degree and scope, the essence of seduction is constant: never be forceful or direct; instead, use pleasure as bait, playing on people’s emotions, stirring desire and confusion, inducing psychological surrender.

Never try to change your victims; instead, induce them to follow your lead.

What I need is a woman who is something, anything; either very beautiful