Well, it's always interesting to try to see the real life situations in which his tales and interpretations are applicable. What really does complicate such a task is the fact that his examples from antiquity and the like are quite often prestigious settings which I would argue make seduction easier. Call it the James Bond Syndrome if you will. Yes, he's incredibly smooth and charming etc but the situation always works from him in that women get the chance to feel the rush of danger and romance precisely because of the situation he's in.
Let's take an example. I'll go with Goldeneye seen as that's the one I know best. There is a rather memorable scene abour 2/3s of the way through where Bond escapes from the military archives protecting Natalya and then when he loses her through no fault of his own he goes after her in a tank!
Now from a woman's perspective, the situation allows her to feel that rush of danger and at the same time being protected by a man. The key is that Bond has the opportunity to seduce people precisely because of the situations they are in. He can fulfill needs easier than in a mundane day-to-day existence.
The key then, I think, is having diagnosed (and greene does this himself, I don't claim to take the credit) that most existence is rather mundane (get up, go to work, come home etc.) it is the duty of seducers in our context to actually work to create an environment which is conducive to seduction right before we even get to the psychology of the whole thing.
Having (hopefully) explained what Greene is driving at, i can try to answer your question about real life examples.
Sticking to my original insight from the previous post that seduction is always predicated on need the best example of this from my life was my first year at University. I'm 22 now, so this would have been around autumn/winter 2004/5.
Having been educated in a boarding school in England, living away from home has never been an issue for me. Yes, it was tough to begin with but by the time I left at 18, I actually felt more comfortable away from home than I did at home. This meant, of course, that when I went to university, living away from home was like water off a duck's back to me. This however, is not by any means the norm. The majority of those who go to uni in Britain have never lived away from home for any considerable length of time before. And such was the case with one certain girl, let's call her Sarah, who I met in the fresher's week.
Sarah came onto my radar because she hooked up with my best mate who I'd gone to school with and naturally was spending all my time with having jsut arrived at uni. After a week fling or so (or that is what everyone was lead to believe though I think it might have gone on for longer) he kicked her to the curb at least publically.
What has to be realised about me at that point was that I was very naive when it came to girls. Id had one LTR at school and was hopelessly what you might call an AFC. Coupled to that I've always had a caring streak (probably from my parents which I'm very grateful for).
As they obviously spent some time together, I got to know her a little bit and genuinely feeling sorry for her (it wasn't some AFC saviour paradigm which Rollo talks about and is highly prevalent I think), I tried to comfort her and just generally feel nice as I felt bad on my friend's behalf for the way that he was treating her.
The upshot of all this was that fast forward a few months and she had fallen for me completely. Everyone in our social circle kept telling me yet I was completely uninterested in that way as I felt no attraction towards her physically.
So how does this all relate to AoS? Well it seems looking back (what a thing hindsight is) that essentially what I did was to basically play the role of the big brother. The fact that she was away from home for the first time and had never spent more than two weeks away from her family in 18 years meant that crucially she had no support system. In the months I got to know her, I became that very system yet curiously, I never projected a sexual exterior to her. I didn't know how to! And the real kicker is and what really interests me about seduction then is that in some, arguably many cases, the advice in AoS actually seems to go against the conventional wisdom of SoSuave. It is like operating on a whole other level,that is subliminal and underground. That is what piques my interest and why when I now anaylse a romantic situation between anyone, I consider it qua what are the relevant party's needs and who or what is fulfilling them?
What do you think Jayer, apologies for the length, had much to say!
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