The seductive character -- The siren -- The rake -- The ideal lover -- The dandy -- The natural -- The coquette -- The charmer -- The charismatic -- The star -- The anti-seducer -- The seducer's victims : the eighteen types -- The seductive process -- Phase one : separation : stirring interest and desire -- Choose your right victim -- Create a false sense of security : approach indirectly -- Send mixed signals -- Appear to be an object of desire : create triangles -- Create a need : stir anxiety and discontent -- Master the art of insinuation -- Enter their spirit -- Create temptation -- Phase two : Lead astray : creating pleasure and confusion -- Keep them in suspense : what comes next? -- 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 : the perfect illusion -- Isolate the victim -- Phase three : the precipice : deepening the effect through extreme measures -- Prove yourself -- Effect a regression -- Stir up the transgressive and taboo -- Use spiritual lures -- Mix pleasure with pain -- Phase four : moving in for the kill -- Give them space to fall : the pursuer is pursued -- Use physical lures -- Master the art of the bold move -- Beware the aftereffects -- Appendix A: seductive environment/seductive time -- Appendix B: soft seduction : how to sell anything to the masses.