Attraction

Idealization is the mind’s way of negotiating the shoals of desire? But what creates attraction? Is preconception a factor? Are familial, ethnic or cultural prototypes at play? Is it the collective unconscious? You may desire the blond and the blue a la Thomas Mann's "Tonio Kroger." Are you drawn to Slavs or is the swarthy Southern European your type? Romance languages create their own allure as do cuneiforms and Sanskrit which can seem exotic--and Cyrillic and Arabic alphabets when you've grown up A-Z. Infatuation is sometimes created by mystery, but it's often similar to the shoe fitting the foot. Jayne Mansfield was the classic pinup, but appearances can be deceiving. She was, by all accounts, not simply a bimbo. Her allure was a mixture of body and mind.

read The Wormhole Society by Francis Levy

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