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targets' sake will so overwhelm their emotions, they won't notice anything else.
    17 Effect a Regression page 333
    People who have experienced a certain kind of pleasure in the past will try to repeat or relive it. The deepest-rooted and most pleasurable memories are usually those from earliest child- hood, and are often unconsciously associated with a parental figure. Bring your targets back to that point by placing yourself in the oedipal triangle and positioning them as the needy child. Unaware of the cause of their emotional response, they will fall in love with you. 18 Stir Up the Transgressive and Taboo page 349
    There are always social limits on what one can do. Some of these, the most elemental taboos, go back centuries; others are more superficial, simply defining polite and acceptable behavior. Making your targets feel that you are leading them past either kind of limit is immensely se- ductive. People yearn to explore their dark side. Once the desire to transgress draws your tar- gets to you, it will be hard for them to stop. Take them farther than they imagined — the shared feeling of guilt and complicity will create a powerful bond. 19 Use Spiritual Lures page 359
    Everyone has doubts and insecurities — about their body, their self-worth, their sexuality. If your seduction appeals exclusively to the physical, you will stir up these doubts and make your targets self-conscious. Instead, lure them out of their insecurities by making them focus on something sublime and spiritual: a religious experience, a lofty work of art, the occult. Lost in a spiritual mist, the target will feel light and uninhibited. Deepen the effect of your seduction by making its sexual culmination seem like the spiritual union of two souls. 20 Mix Pleasure with Pain page 369
    The greatest mistake in seduction is being too nice. At first, perhaps, your kindness is charm- ing, but it soon grows monotonous; you are trying too hard to please, and seem insecure. In- stead of overwhelming your targets with niceness, try inflicting some pain. Make them feel guilty and insecure. Instigate a breakup — now a rapprochement, a return to your earlier kind- ness, will turn them weak at the knees. The lower the lows you create, the greater the highs. To heighten the erotic charge, create the excitement of fear.
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    Phase Four: Moving In for the Kill
    21 Give Them Space to Fall—The Pursuer Is Pursued page 383
    If your targets become too used to you as the aggressor, they will give less of their own energy, and the tension will slacken. You need to wake them up, turn the tables. Once they are under your spell, take a step bach and they will start to come after you. Hint that you are growing bored. Seem interested in someone else. Soon they will want to possess you physically, and re- straint will go out the window. Create the illusion that the seducer is being seduced. 22 Use Physical Lures page 393
    Targets with active minds are dangerous: If they see through your manipulations, they may suddenly develop doubts. Put their minds gently to rest, and waken their dormant senses, by combining a nondefensive attitude with a charged sexual presence. While your cool, noncha- lant air is lowering their inhibitions, your glances, voice, and bearing — oozing sex and desire — are getting under their skin and raising their temperature. Never force the physical; instead infect your targets with heat, lure them into lust. Morality, judgment, and concern for the future will all melt away.
    23 Master the Art of the Bold Move page 405
    A moment has arrived: Your victim clearly desires you, but is not ready to admit it openly, let alone act on it. This is the time to throw aside chivalry, kindness, and coquetry and to over- whelm with a bold move. Don't give the victim time to consider the consequences. Showing hesitation or awkwardness means you are thinking of yourself as opposed to being over- whelmed by the victim's charms. One person must go on