Female Seductiveness and Male Seductiveness, by Yukio Mishima
"Women who admire losers are overwhelmingly more common than women who admire winners."
Female Seductiveness1 and Male Seductiveness
Yukio Mishima
What is Seductiveness?
What in the first place is seductiveness? I think that seductiveness lies solely within the accumulation of culture. The older and longer the culture possessed by a country is the more it understands seductiveness. Unlike American-style obvious sex appeal, it is not only the human body, but also sexual attractiveness melted into various composite charms like emotion, feeling, atmosphere, and personality, so it is naturally influenced by the letters, arts, and cultural traditions that depict such feelings and atmospheres. For example, it is difficult to discuss the fact that women wearing kimono are seductive separately from the cultural history of the kimono. All men say this, but although on one hand the fact that women in mourning clothes are most seductive attests to the proximity of death and eroticism, it is nothing so deeply psychoanalytic. It is likely that the simple contrast of the black of the kimono and the red of the woman’s lipstick combine with the controlled, quiet, and decorous movements and expressions of women in such circumstances to create seductiveness.