THE EXOTIC FETISHIST - THE ART OF SEDUCTION - ROBERT GREENE

[THE EXOTIC FETISHIST] It will be a struggle to ______________.

Hold their interest

[THE EXOTIC FETISHIST] Clearly the way to seduce them is to position yourself as exotic—if you do not at least appear to come from ______________.

A different background or race, or to have some alien aura, you should not even bother

[THE EXOTIC FETISHIST] Nothing will offer true Exotic Fetishists ______________.

Escape from themselves

[THE EXOTIC FETISHIST] These types are easy to recognize. They like to travel; their houses are filled with _____________; they fetishize the ______________ of this or that foreign culture.

Objects from faraway places\ Music or art

[THE EXOTIC FETISHIST] Their underlying insecurity will keep you ______________.

On edge

[THE EXOTIC FETISHIST] But it is always possible to ______________, to make it a kind of theater for their amusement. (Your clothes, the things you talk about, the places you take them, make a show of your difference.)

Play up what makes you exotic

[THE EXOTIC FETISHIST] They often have a strong ______________.

Rebellious streak

[THE EXOTIC FETISHIST] Exaggerate a little and they will imagine the rest, because such types tend to be ______________.

Self-deluders

[THE EXOTIC FETISHIST] In truth they feel empty inside and have a strong does of ______________.

Self-loathing

[THE EXOTIC FETISHIST] They do not make particularly good victims. Whatever exoticism you have will ______________.

Soon seem banal to them, and they will want something else

[THE EXOTIC FETISHIST] Most of us are excited and intrigued by the exotic. What separates Exotic Fetishists from the rest of us is?

The degree of this interest, which seems to govern all their choices in life.

[THE EXOTIC FETISHIST] They do not like wherever it is they come from, their social class (usually middle or upper), and their culture because ______________.

They do not like themselves

[THE EXOTIC FETISHIST] One variation on this type is the man or woman who is trapped in a stultifying relationship, a banal occupation, a dead-end town. It is circumstance, as opposed to personal neurosis, that makes such people fetishize the exotic; and these Exotic Fetishists are better victims than the self-loathing kind, because ______________.

You can offer them a temporary escape from whatever oppresses them.