Seducers are themselves providers of pleasure, like bees that gather pollen from some flowers and deliver it to others(…)
(…)A seducer sees all of life as a theatre, everyone an actor. Most people feel they have constricted roles in life, which makes them unhappy. Seducers, on the other hand, can be anyone and can assume many roles[...] Seducers take pleasure in performing and are not weighed down by their identity, or by some need to be themselves, or to be natural. This freedom of theirs, this fluidity in body and spirit is what makes them attractive. What people lack in life is not more than reality but illusion, fantasy, play[...] Seduction is a kind of theatre in real life, the meeting of illusion and reality.
Seduction is a form of deception, but people want to be led astray, they yearn to be seduced. If they didn’t, seducers wouldn’t find so many willing victims.
from The Art of Seduction, by Robert Greene.
