Seduction, the Ultimate Form of Power and Persuasion

The first great seductresses were like military generals planning the destruction of an enemy. Men grew interested in seduction as a way to overcome a young woman's resistance to sex. Casanova would dazzle a woman with his clothes, Nino de longclo would charm a man with her words. For cleopatra, it was a means of consolidating an empire. In seduction, the woman was no longer a passive sex object,. She had become an active agent and figure of power.