How To Be A Seductress
“Seduction” tends to get a bad rap among the masses. Many believe seduction has to do with tricking a person into hopping into bed, along with other game-playing techniques where you rip the person’s heart out and laugh about it hysterically with your buddies. But seduction is about so much more than sex.
By far, my all-time favorite seductress is Cleopatra. The cunning Egyptian ruler seduced two Roman emperors into doing her bidding in her quest to achieve world power. And you might be surprised to learn that Cleopatra wasn’t known to be a stunning beauty. The ancient historian Plutarch, born about a century after Cleopatra’s death, wrote, “Her actual beauty was not in itself so remarkable. It was the charm of her presence that was irresistible.” Other “accounts from ancient Roman history depict Cleopatra using her feminine charms to bewitch and influence powerful men of the ancient world. Her wit and intelligence were often downplayed or overshadowed entirely by her sexiness in accounts written by her Roman critics.” Cleopatra illustrates how seduction is more of a psychological entanglement with a man than a technique entirely based on female beauty alone.