The Art of Seduction

In a IM conversation with a friend of mine yesterday about my relationship with B, he suggested I read The Art of Seduction. So, I went to a bookstore here in town, to see if they had a copy.

OMG! The back cover alone lists the following steps to take in the art of seduction.

• Choose the right victim
• Create a false sense of security-approach indirectly
• Send mixed signals
• Appear to be an object of desire
• Create a need – stir anxiety and discontent
• Master the art of insinuation
• Enter their spirit
• Create temptation
• Keep them in suspense
• Use the demonic power of words to sow confusion
• Pay attention to detail
• Poeticize your presence
• Disarm through strategic weakness and vulnerability
• Confuse desire and reality, create the perfect illusion
• Isolate the victim
• Prove yourself
• Effect a regression
• Stir up the transgressive and taboo
• Use spiritual lures
• Mix pleasure with pain
• Give them space to fall – the pursuer is pursued
• Use physical lures
• Master the art of the Bold Move
• Beware the after-effects

I don't want a victim, I don't want B back under false pretenses or lies, or games, or strategic weakness or illusions (perfect or not). I want B back, because we both realize we love each other and want to try again. This just sounds cruel, and deceitful, and wrong.