Throughout life, we are confronted with barriers. In our culture, we acquire through parental upbringing, schooling, our peers as well as the media the two ways of dealing with barriers. We either struggle to overcome those barriers or give up. However, success requires transforming barriers into benefits. The art of Seduction is geared to win or influence another’s point of view to the seducer’s pleasure. Seduction has lead men astray from their principles and induced temptations of sex: Delilah’s sex appeal over Samson or Cleopatra’s over Marc Antony. Modern historians credit the art of Seduction to the success of Hillary Rodham Clinton in winning over the people of New York.
The art of Seduction offers dynamic appeals, teasing, withdrawing, and a charming demeanor mirroring allure and enchantment. Seduction is flirtatious and frequently erotic in relational performances. Methods of seduction include revealing photographs, sexy lingeries, or a mere purposeful act or movement that entails incredible charm and precision. Modern science in magnetic techniques exudes charisma to the amateur Seducer.
There are the Kama Sutra, Greek Mythology, Tao te Ching, a scented perfume and even just plain therapeutic humor. Hypnosis is a popular method in the art of Seduction defined as “a narrowing focus of attention or resonating with the anti-suggestive barrier of the mind” (Hogan, 2004). Hypnotic seduction is about smooth talking to captivate attention while suggesting a course of action that will be followed. Hypnotic seduction is exciting and intoxicating!
Often seduction was associated with coquetry, the bar scene, and sexual adventurism. Traditionalists leered over the seductress's threat to masculine privilege, societal norms, and essentialist notions of female etiquette. While the art of Seduction is practiced by both men and women of today, the oppressive western rationalism of the past had resisted and even disciplined its expression. Seduction is promoted by liberationist and represents an expression of managed desire, a display of female power as well as an arena of freedom built on a dialect of consent and refusal.
The art of Seduction is the empowerment primarily exploited by women to create and re-create themselves in society's eyes. Recovering the seductive arts as a means of addressing women's issues is an ideologically bold proposition. “The Last Seduction”, a 1994 movie that portrayed the baddest of the bad women successfully attempted that notion. The steamy movie has been haled as the most full-blown yet utterly believable femme fatale to come along in years. As Bridget, the nasty lady from the big city, actress Linda Florentino plays “the kind of woman who will spend the night with a guy and go into the kitchen the next morning and put out her cigarette in his grandma's apple pie” (LaSalle, 1995). Her power derives from everyone else's inability to believe any human being can be that rotten. The best part was sensing the fact that the movie will not be twisted into the conformity of some expected formula. Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times hales the movie: "The Last Seduction is not only ingenious and entertaining, but liberating“(Ebert, 1994). The art of Seduction theory flaunts modernity.
Finally, the major feature of seduction is the illusion or delusion of reality, producing a sort of flickering, hypnotic state of mind that mesmerizes attention outside rationality. Seductive teasing signals a longed-for decision or anticipated course of action that remains in question. The seduction becomes desired and perceived as a predicator for a future. The teasing evokes potential outcomes in the imagination and acknowledges a pre-conceived positive future.The experience of being captivated is an ecstatic state of wonderment, exhilaration, joy and even orgasmic! The enabling tension between absence and presence, desire and fulfillment as well as anticipation and closure helps negotiate a seductive attractiveness. The seductive sweeps the listener off his or her feet which fosters abandonment and celebration of the moment to open the listener to vulnerability and control.
To grow spiritually we must experience and know, or be a slave to other people’s opinions and doctrine. As the 21st century unfolds, the time has come for us to recognize our true potential and to explore beyond the prevailing beliefs and convictions. The benefits of such an out-of-body experience that extend far beyond the limits of our physical senses and our intellect.