Art of Seduction Types of Victims the Conqueror

The Fine art of Seduction (2001) is a mix between a dark psychology text and a seduction manual for men.
Robert Greene, the author, delves into the psychology of dating and seduction, including the more than Machiavellian aspects of seducing people independently of who gets hurt.

Contents

• Bullet Summary
• Full Summary
• Role I: Seductive Characters
  • #1. Sirens
  • #2. The Rake
  • #3. Charmer
  • #iv. Charismatic
  • #5. Ideal Lover
  • #6. Dandies
  • #7. Naturals
  • #8. Coquettes
  • #9. Stars
  • Anti-seducers
  • The xviii Types of Seducer Victims
  • Role two: The Seductive Process
  • Phase I: Separation
  • Phase II – lead astray
• Phase Three – The Precipice
• Phase IV – Moving In for the Kill First
  • Appendix A: Seductive Environments
• CONS
• Review

Bullet Summary

• Pick targets who are like shooting fish in a barrel for seductions, not merely targets you like
• Pick a target whom you lot really like too -and never your same type-
• Seduction is about fantasy, idealization. Provide an out of the ordinary experience

Total Summary

About The Author: Robert Greene might not be a seducer himself and he doesn't have any educational groundwork in psychology.
Yet, when he talks about power dynamics and seduction he delivers more insights and wisdom than most pick-up artists or psychologists.
He is ane of my favorite authors and his other books include "The Laws of Human Nature" and "The 50th Constabulary".

Function I: Seductive Characters

In the first role of The Art of Seduction Robert Greene describes the different personality types and grapheme traits of the best seducers.

For a deeper overview of male seducers types, cheque out:

10 Types of Male Seducers: Pick Your Niche!

#one. Sirens

The siren is highly sexual, confident, offering the hope of endless pleasure and a scrap of danger.
The examples are Cleopatra and Marilyn Monroe.

Watch Marilyn Monroe here and read more than on seduction here:

• How to seduce a man case study.
• How to brand him crazy

Robert Greene says sirens are the most powerful seductresses as they operate on a man's nigh basic emotions, and these work on everyone.

Dangers of Sirens:

Members of the same sex can get jealous.

Example:
Robert Greene righteously talks most Marilyn Monroe'due south orgasmic faces. Here is an example for y'all:

#2. The Rake

The Rake insatiably adores the contrary sex, and their desire is infectious.

The Rake is a great female person fantasy-figure: when he desires a woman he volition practise annihilation for her. Sure he may be disloyal, but that only adds to his appeal.

The Rake is a guilty pleasure offer what society does not permit women: an affair of pure pleasure with the added bonus of danger.

To learn more about the rake type of seducers read:

• The psychology of womanizers
• How to spot a player
• Signs you're dating a fuckboy

#3. Charmer

Charmers desire to delight and know how to please: they are highly skilled social creatures.

Charmers seduce by removing themselves from the equation and taking full interest on their victims.
They volition know what makes y'all tick, sympathize your pains and… Your weaknesses. Charmers make you experience understood and they experience improve nigh yourself.

• Also read 33 Strategies of State of war

The Dangers of Charm

Robert Greene righteously says that some people tend to view Charmers as glace and mendacious, and it tin create problems for y'all.

Charmers must know then when to go rid of their flexibility and starting time interim inflexible.

Besides read:

• How to be charming (with video examples)

#iv. Charismatic

Charisma is an exciting presence.

Information technology comes from inner qualities that brand yous stand out. It can exist confidence, sexual energy, sense of purpose or contentment.
Most people lack these qualities, and what's what draws them in.

• Read here traits and video examples of charismatic men

Contrary to Charmers, Charismatics thrived during turmoils, when they can show off their daring.
The examples in The Are of Seduction are Joan of Arc and Rasputin.

Dangers of Charisma

Charisma is equally volatile as the emotions it creates, says Robert Greene.

#5. Platonic Lover

Ideal lovers thrive on broken dreams.

You lot long for adventures, romance, losing yourself in the moment?
The Ideal Lover will reflect your fantasy.

Appeal to lofty ideals together with the carnal desires and sexual diplomacy volition become sense-engulfing dear diplomacy.
The Ideal Lover is rare in the modern earth because it takes much attempt and fourth dimension.

Dangers of Platonic Lover

You create a fantasy that involves the idealization of your ain character. If your faults arrive the way, you will destroy that fantasy.

#6. Dandies

Dandies like to play with their paradigm, creating a striking and androgynous attraction.

They alive for pleasance and surround themselves with beauty.

The sexes tend to accept a chasm between them and they don't understand the other. The Dandy is reassuring and feels comfortable for having similar traits.
The key is ambiguity: you lot are heterosexual, merely y'all movement delightfully dorsum and forth between the 2 poles.

A difference with the Rake is that while the Rake'south insolence is tied to conquering a adult female, the insolence of the Corking is aimed at society and conventions: it's no a woman he's trying to conquer, but a whole social earth.

Example:
An instance of the slightly androgynous neat is Russel Make:

Dangers of Dandies

The Art of Seduction nails when it says that Dandies are likely to be accused of being too masculine -for women- or too feminine -for men-.

And of grade, insolence can get someone really angry at you.

#7. Naturals

Naturals are spontaneous and open.

They bring u.s.a. back to childhood, the gilded paradise we consciously or unconsciously try to recreate.
They bring us back to that fourth dimension by embodying those child-like qualities such equally spontaneity and sincerity.

The primal is to infuse your play with the conviction and feeling of a kid, making it seem natural. The more absorbed you seem in your own joy-filled world, the more seductive you go.

Example:
You lot can come across an instance of child seduction in my article "how to drive him crazy".

Dangers of Naturals

Total childishness tin can be annoying, so the best Naturals combine adult traits similar experience and wisdom with a childlike mode.
Information technology's the mixture of qualities that is most attractive.

#eight. Coquettes

Coquettes are self-sufficient.

They seem to say they don't need you, and their narcissism is devilishly attractive.
Imitate the alternating oestrus and coolness of the Coquette to make your target chase fifty-fifty harder.

The real essence of Coquettes is to trap people emotionally. The underground of the coquette information technology's not much tease and temptation, the secret weapon of the coquettes is emotional withdrawal.

Their withdrawal makes them mysterious… And it makes us insecure.
What if they've lost interest?

Case
You tin see video examples of coquettes in action in "how to seduce a human".

Dangers of Coquettes

Coquettes play with volatile emotions as love can hands shift into hate. Their absenteeism can't be likewise prolonged, acrimony but must be followed by smiles every bit the negatives can't overweight the positives for too long.

#9. Stars

Stars are ethereal and envelop themselves in mystery.

Daily life is mundane and can exist harsh. The star represents the escape into fantasies and dreams.
To be a star, The Art of Seduction says, yous must transform yourself into a glittering object.

Dangers of Stars

The danger is that people volition tire of your illusion and move to the side by side upwardly and coming star.
Once that happens you will detect it very hard to regain your spot in the sun.

Anti-seducers

Greene dedicates a chapter to the personalities and traits of the anti-seducers.
Avoid them at all costs unless you want to repel anybody:

• Creature: no patience and wants to skip seduction
• Suffocator: cling endlessly & loves likewise shortly
• Moralizer: wants you to become similar they want you lot to be
• Tightwad: money to a higher place seduction
• Bumbler: self-conscious and bad-mannered
• Windbag: talk incessantly
• Reactor: terrified of having their ego injure
• Vulgarian: ignores the rules of seduction and even so expects to win.
• Greedy: brand it also obvious they're after things

See an example of the bumbler here:

The eighteen Types of Seducer Victims

Don't think that everyone lacks what you are lacking and don't effort to seduce your own blazon.

1. Reformed Rake or Siren: long to escape what restricted their liberty
2. Disappointed Dreamer: stuck in a boring life and long for risk
3. Pampered Royal: long for prince charming to let them live the pampered fantasy of a imperial life
4. New Prude: concerned with appearance and judgment, secretly long release
5. Crushed Star: long to beingness adored once again
6. Novice: excited of existence introduced to a new, darker world…
7. Conquerer: give them an obstacle to overcome or a mission
8. Exotic Fetishist: want novelty, experiences, edgy stuff
9. Drama Queen: long for drama in their lives
10. Professor: analyze and ponder, but long existence overwhelmed past a gratuitous spirit
11. Beauty: used to being appreciated. Focus on hidden features similar her intellect or wit
12. Aging Infant: young and looking for supportive parent
13. Rescuer: long to feel like they're saving someone
14. The Roué: experienced in life and desire to educate someone more than naive.
15. Idol Worshipper: seeking for a meaning in life
16. Sensualist: driven past their senses. Overwhelm their sight, smell, and touch
17. Lonely Leader: they're not used to existence bossed. Human action every bit their equal or superior
18. Floating Gender: float with them

Office 2: The Seductive Process

Stage I: Separation

Your victims live in their own world, their listen is busy with their daily lives and daily worries.
Your goal in the start phase is to enter that world and becoming their great escape.

#ane. Cull The Right Victim

The perfect victim is the person who stirs yous in a way that cannot be explained. There should be some tension, the victim might fear y'all or fifty-fifty slightly dislike you. T

Here are a few categories of people like shooting fish in a barrel to seduce:

• Unhappy: Happy people are much harder to seduce
• Imaginative: a person with a proficient imagination is easier to seduce (they tin can daydream about you)
• Manly: turn the aggression around with coquettish tricks and make him your slave.
• Shy and introverts: are better targets than extroverts
• Disorganized & lost: men without a goal are ameliorate than focused ones.
• Lots of fourth dimension: people with lots of time are great targets. More times to recollect virtually yous
• Boring life

Robert Greene says that nosotros all want to exist seduced.

#2. Create a False Sense of Security

If in the opening stages you can make your target think they are doing the first pace, yous won the game.

Whatever activity y'all take to let them come to you, avoid crowding your target: too much attention early on will suggest insecurity and give no room for imagination.

Robert Greene says:

1. Direct approach can exist quicker, only
2. The indirect, carefully constructed seduction might reduce the number of your conquests but more than than compensates past their quality.

My Note:
I don't fully agree with Greene'southward have on directly/indirect approach.

Also read:

• Common cold arroyo VS warm approach

Common cold Approach VS Social Circumvolve (VS Tinder): Strategies

#3. Send Mixed Signals

Mixed signals suggest depth and it fascinates while it confuses.

A question mark, an elusive personality… Information technology will make people want to know more, drawing them in.

The Art of Seduction says that great ways of adopting mixed signals are to show attributes running against your physical appearance.

Warning: keep your hidden quality subtle or else y'all'll seem schizophrenic.
As well, some people prefer things to stay simple: everything depends on your target.

#4. Announced an Object of Desire —Create Triangles

The Fine art of Seduction says you want your target to see you lot as someone other want. And that they might lose to these others admirers.

Doesn't have to be a specific conquest, but can be a number of admirers and even past conquests.
You can make your target feel in contest with both your past and your present.

Also read:

• How to brand him value more than
• Power move in relationships: leveraging competition

#v. Create a Need— Stir Feet and Discontent

The Art of Seduction reminds united states that a perfectly happy and content person is difficult to seduce. Hence, you lot should stir tension and disharmony in your target'south mind.

Danger:

The run a risk is in going besides far and making your target angry, or defensive.
Greene says in the get-go charm is better than making people feel bad (so skip the neg of the onetime PUA mode).

#half dozen. Master the Art of Insinuation

A useful skill in the Art of Seduction is the art of insinuation: making your target feel dissatisfied in a non-obvious, socially savvy mode.

Danger:

When the target is already interested in y'all, skip it.

#seven. Enter Their Spirit

Sympathize them, vibe with them, like what they like, adapt to their moods. Don't only mirror who they are, but too the platonic person they want to exist.
Once they start opening up you can turn the tables and permit them enter your spirit.

Danger:

Mirror for too long and they volition see through it and be repelled by it. Mirroring is a tactic, a step in your seduction post-obit past them entering into your world.
Information technology'south important that across the mirroring you lot keep your own solid sense of identity.

#eight. Create Temptation

Lure your target with the temptation of the pleasure to come.

Find that unrealized fantasy they accept, that weakness they can't control and tempt them with it.
Continue information technology vague, postpone the gratification and allow their mind fill up in the gap.

Phase Two – lead off-target

Your victims are already intrigued past you, and your goal in this stage is to go them fully hooked and reach the point of no return.

#9. Keep them in Suspense- What'due south Side by side?

Reliable people are boring. When they know what to look from you lot, your spell is broken.

The Art of Seduction explains that surprises work because they create a moment when the defenses come down and new emotions tin can take in.
Accept them somewhere exciting, brand it seem spontaneous and natural. Or Suddenly appear before their optics: a great tactic especially if they already similar you.

Dogs are reliable, not seducers

10. Use Words to Sow Confusion

Use loaded words, sweetness ones, flattering ones. Make them feel amend, spun fantasies for them and requite them promises. They volition not just listen, only start falling for yous.

Danger of Demonic Words

Likewise much flowery language tin seem pretentious and information technology'due south a sign of selfishness. Less is more than: vague and cryptic leave more than room for imagination.

#xi. Pay Attention to Details

The devil is in the details and the details are what volition differentiate you from the masses.
Pay attention to your aesthetic "finishing coat". Remember their details and make gifts that mean a lot to them.

Also think of everything most yourself: the way you look, the style you walk, your moves, your poses.

#12. Poeticize Your Presence

People are dying to fantasize virtually someone.

Embody some ideal or some cultural ideal of dazzler. Knightly, romance, adventure.
Even roguery and evil are better than zero.

#13. Disarm With Strategic Weakness and Vulnerability

Most people endeavor to hide our flaws, but what's natural to our character is as well seductive. Something you can't control can be your most seductive quality.

Confess something bad most you, or something bad that you did. Ane honest gesture volition comprehend many deceitful ones (this is a police force of the 48 Laws of Power).

But don't overdo the vulnerability and read:

• Too much vulnerability is unseductive

Danger of Weaknesses

Some weaknesses like neediness have no seductive value. And timing is everything: merely share it when they're already falling for you.

#14. Confuse Desire and Reality

Bring their fantasy into reality.

Create their fantasy or embody their fantasy.
The best illusions are the ones that do not depart from reality likewise much. A chip similar a drowsy dream.

#15. Isolate The Victim

An isolated target is easier to seduce.

Isolate them psychologically by having them thinking almost you and physically by taking them away from what'south familiar to them.

Make your target experience they're embarking in a great adventure with you, but they are also losing something, like their past or their comfortable life.

Phase III – The Precipice

The Art of Seduction'southward phase Three goal is to make everything deeper. Once your hooks are deep into them, you will exist able to move at will until they snap.

#16. Testify Yourself

A cocky-sacrificing activeness volition overwhelm your target's emotions.

Don't wait for something exogenous to happen, put your target in a difficult position and rescue them.

I'm glad Robert Greene says you should likewise make your target prove to y'all: it raises your values and covers your blemishes (read: how to attract loftier quality men with mutual escalation).

#17. Effect a Regression

The Fine art of Seduction brings united states of america a super powerful tool when it introduces the Regression.
Regression leverages the transfer phenomenon of psychoanalysis.

Ask about their childhood. As they talk, adopt a therapist pose. Exist circumspect but quiet, interject with nonjudgmental comments to keep them talking.

Don't just talk though, you want people to deed out their memories in the nowadays. Make your target feel like they are getting what they always missed with yous.

The Art of Seduction describes the four types of regression:

• Infantile: the first bail with a mother is the almost powerful one. The key for the regression is the unconditional love a mother has for the infant.
• Oedipal: must be tailored to your target because you play the parental role
• Ego Ideal: let them experience they are getting shut to existence the person they wanted to be.
• Reverse Parental: here you play the role of the child instead. Cute, ambrosial, only besides sexual child.

Some types are more than vulnerable to a regression:

• Serious and "developed"
• Full of themselves
• Seem in command

They're oftentimes over-compensating.
And positions of power tin can exist more of a brunt they subconsciously desire to be free of.

#eighteen. Stir Up the Transgressive and Taboo

We all love to explore our dark side, so make your target experience they are going past those limits and into uncharted territory with you lot.

You lot don't respect marriage vows, religions or age differences.
Someone to theoretically avoid, but in reality terribly seductive.
The shared feeling of guilt and complicity volition further strengthen your bond.

In seduction, there is no power in respecting boundaries and limits.

#nineteen. Utilise Spiritual Lures

We all have some insecurities virtually our physical appearances and if we merely appeal to the concrete nosotros risk making our targets insecure and hundred-to-one.

Focus instead on something sublime and spiritual.
Art, the occult, an extra-sensorial experience.

#20. Mix Pleasure With Pain

The greatest mistake in seduction is beingness too prissy.

Effort inflicting some pain instead.
Focus fully on them at the beginning, then suddenly appear uninterested. Make them feel guilty and insecure.

The lower the lows you create, the college the highs will be.

The Fine art of Seduction says that many of us have masochistic yearnings without realizing it. And when someone inflicts hurting on us, the securely repressed feelings come to the surface.
Works best on those who have information technology easy, those who have power and fiddling problems.

The lower the lows you create, the college the highs will exist.

Danger of Pain

Don't do it besides early and on people who recently experienced lots of hurting.

Phase Four – Moving In for the Impale First

You seduced their mind, so confused and stirred them upwards to seduce emotionally.
Now the time has come for the physical seduction. By now, your victims should be weak and ripe with desire.

#21. Give Them Infinite to Autumn— The Pursuer Is Pursued

In one case they are under your spell take a step back to let them pursue y'all. A touch of aloofness, a no evidence, a hint of colorlessness.

Don't make information technology explicit, let them sense it and permit their imagination practice the residual. Shortly they'll be aching to possess you physically.

Dangers

Don't go absent-minded in cardinal moments of the seduction.
And don't exaggerate: the strategy is give and take, if you only take abroad for too long you might lose your target.

#22. Use Concrete Lures

Combine a non-defensive mental attitude with a charged sexual presence.

While your relaxed, absurd air is calming your target mind's and lowering inhibitions, your glances, voice and concrete presence is raising the temperature.

To achieve it, it all starts from you. Train yourself to permit get of your ain inhibitions, doubts, anxieties.
Your confidence and fluidity volition have more exhilarant ability than whatsoever booze or drug yous could apply.

Dangers of Physical Lure

Few people feel repulsed by their sexual nature merely many are uncomfortable with their bodies.
An arroyo working but on the physical level so will affright and disturb.

#23. Master the Art of the Bold Move

Some targets will never make the first motion.

And some women tin get disgusted if she's long been set up but the homo never made the motility.

Don't requite them the time to ponder over what's going to happen, to consider the consequences. Crete conflict, stir up tension, and the bold motility will come as a great release.
If you're hesitant or awkward it means you're thinking of yourself. Exist overwhelmed by the target'due south charm instead.

Dangers of Boldness

While boldness tin can work wonders, uncontrollable boldness is more scary than seductive. Then you need to be able to turn information technology on at off every bit needed.

Ane person must go on the offensive, and it is you.

#24. Beware the Aftereffects

When emotions achieve a peak, they can hands swing in the reverse direction if you're not careful.
If you are to part, make the sacrifice swift and sudden instead.

Yous can let some reality and routing creep in: too much mystery volition create doubts. But never let your target take you for granted.

If separation must happen, brand it happen chop-chop and as beautifully as the seduction.

Appendix A: Seductive Environments

Spaces with a theatrical, heightened quality -glittery or opulent for case- create a artless feeling that make information technology hard for the victim to call back directly.

Something mystical can aid block out the existent world: astrology books, celestial imagery, mystical music from far away land.

Any surroundings offer the possibility of playing a different role, of being someone dissimilar than in normal day-to-twenty-four hours life, is immensely seductive.

My Notation: here's some music you can play for a seduction nighttime.

CONS

• Sometimes out of touch with reality

Sometimes it feels like in that location is no deep understanding of sexual market value and dynamics.

Greene talks about player Erol Flynn.
He says how he slept with a black adult female in Africa -just it's quite like shooting fish in a barrel for white men to sleep with black women in Africa, allow alone for an attractive and confident one like Fynn. Doesn't even count as a seduction to me-.

In this video Greene besides marvels at what a prolific seducer Flynn was:

Greene: and the math was quite insane, at some point he must accept seduced anybody woman haver other solar day, something similar that. What was his hugger-mugger? What made him and so insanely successful?

Frankly, I was incredulous.
Is Greene really lacking this basic understanding?
The guy was a rich, attractive, famous actor.
That's the biggest sexual hack ever.

He wasn't seducing anyone, he was just busting a nut every other day coasting on his fame and on the women who went subsequently him for his fame.

• Geared Towards the Old Days

"The Art of Seduction" is tailored to the quondam, classical times.

Many of the examples are before 1900, and the fact that letters are being discussed as a way of correspondence tells you this is non 100% a "how to seduce in the 2000s guide".

Check my best seduction resources if y'all're interested in more up-to-date seduction resources.

• The myth of "powerful men are into submissive roles"?

Robert Greene says that powerful men seek respite for responsibility, and frequently want to be babied, mother, or dominated.
However, Robert Greene's sources are non scientific researches or data-driven analyses. And then, personally, I'm unconvinced.

And just for 1, Ogi Ogas says that:

Certainly, well-nigh alpha males prefer the sexually dominant function. But perhaps a minority feel a kind of psychological relief when taking the submissive role. Or some other possibility is only that the motivation required to become socially dominant is unrelated to i'south preference for sexual dominance.

So information technology seems similar dominant in life is probably correlated to dominant in sex and relationships.
However, it seems that there'due south no existent data.

Review

The Art of Seduction is an endless well of bang-up psychological insights.

Night psychology, at times.
And of course, heavy in amoral manipulation tactics.

Absolutely recommended to anyone who'south interested in seduction, ability dynamics, psychology, and manipulation.

Alert:

Albeit so much of the information in The Art Of Seduction is groovy and Robert Greene does understand human nature and psychology, some of the communication is counterproductive if you want to "seal the deal" with someone.

The Art of Seduction wants to give you an "ideal" seduction, but this "platonic" seduction is strewn over a long menstruation of time where games and tactics will have your target fall head over heels for y'all.

That's cool, only the longer the time, the more likely something which can derail your seductions will happen.
By moving quicker, instead, you can probably go more lovers in less time.

Also see:

• Best dating books for guys
• Best dating books for women
• Best red pill books
• Best dark triad books
• Best books to manipulate people

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