[seductionscrapbook]

the essay that inspired this blog

is seduction a (dying) art?

get off your phone and touch them

[oblivion-soave]

“What suddenly manages to touch me (ravish me) in the other is the voice, the line of the shoulders, the slenderness of the silhouette, the warmth of the hand, the curve of a smile…”

— Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse

[al-afghani-deactivated20201222]

Relationships should be 50/50. She laughs and i kiss her lips to taste her happiness

[metamorphesque]

Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss by Antonio Canova

by Sappho

Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out by Richard Siken

To Fanny Brawne (13 October, 1819), John Keats

The Kiss, 1907 by Gustav Klimt

The Meeting in a Dream, Jorge Luis Borges

Holy Things in This World, Emery Allen

You Are Jeff by Richard Siken

[theoptia]

Marguerite Duras, from The Lover

Text ID: to devour and be devoured,

[svantetic]

[nixscriptum]

[thiswildandpreciouslife]

he said "u up?" but Dostoevsky said,

"… she tortures me, tortures me with her love… In the past it was only that infernal body of hers that tortured me, but now I've taken all her soul into my soul and through her I've become a man."

[bebemoon]

“The nature of erotic things is secrecy, otherwise they lose their spell.”

— Björk (via laudanumat33)

[dark--khaos]

“Very slowly, with hands, tongues, mouths, we unwrapped and untied ourselves, laying open gifts. Gave birth to each other again, as separate bodies who enjoy collision.”

— Fire, Anais NIn (via pinkwargasm)

[lunamonchtuna]

— Anaïs Nin, from The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, (1903-1977) (via lunamonchtuna)

[soracities]

“I beg you, eat me up. Want me down to the marrow.”

— Hélène Cixous, from “The Love of the Wolf”

[oldwinesoultoo]

[majestativa]

Desires, which grew like dark fruit in the night.

GHAREEB ISKANDER (غريب إسكندر) — Gilgamesh’s Snake and Other Poems, transl. by John Glenday & Ghareeb Iskander, (2004)

[oldwinesoul]

[ilivebytherulesoffashion]

Irving Penn for American Vogue, October 1997. Corset by Christian Dior.

[lunamonchtuna]

— Rachel Mennies, from The Naomi Letters "April 18, 2017" (via lunamonchtuna)

[archetype-femme-fatale]

cycles of yearning