THE ART OF SEDUCTION
Jan Steen's The Seduction - I wonder what the dog will do: I've just come across an online article about Robert Greene's bestselling book, The Art of Seduction , published in 2001. The author sees seduction as "about power and manipulation as much as it is about romance, about how to make someone fall under your spell." Robert Greene profiled nine types of seducers (including Cleopatra, Giacomo Casanova, Duke Ellington and John F Kennedy) and 18 types of victims of seduction. He then went onto to formulate 24 rules of seduction. I'm just going to list Robert Greene's 24 rules of seduction; I'm not going to elaborate on them because, one, many of them sound like manipulative psychobabble and, two, per usual I don't want to write a wordy blog post! Robert Greene's rules of seduction are: (1) choose the right victim; (2) create a false sense of security - approach indirectly; (3) send mixed signals; (4) appear to be an object of desire - create t...