5/13/2023 0 Comments Seduce & Atone by Elisia M. Blade![]() ![]() Advertising is sometimes described as a form of seduction with the goal of persuading people to buy a product. Sometimes, a person is said to have been lured by the seduction of money or success. In Star Wars, villains are always using the art of seduction to try to get people to cross over to the dark side. Seduction is also commonly used in a more general way meaning the act of tempting or influencing someone to do something, especially something bad or something they wouldn’t normally do. The goal is typically to get them to do something corrupt or at least something they wouldn’t normally do. Seduction is the act of making someone want to engage in sexual activity with you, especially in a subtle or manipulative way. The more general sense of seduction involves leading someone astray or luring them in. This type of seduction is typically thought to be achieved by making yourself irresistible through the way you act or the things you say. James Bond is notorious for his seduction of women. ![]() Today, this is the most commonly used meaning of seduction-and the meaning that’s associated with just about every use of the word, even when it is used more generally. ![]() Only later did it come to be used in reference to making someone want to have sex. From there, it began to be used in a more general way to refer to influencing someone to do something wrong. ![]() It ultimately comes from the Latin verb sēdūcere, meaning “to lead aside.” (The root dūcere also forms the basis of words like induce, produce, and reduce.) The verb seduce is recorded earlier, in the 1470s, and its original use referred to persuading a soldier or servant to desert or change sides. The first records of the word seduction come from the 1520s. ![]()
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