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The Siren and the Myth of Seduction

There's a contradiction to the act of seduction. Seduce comes from the latin word "seducere" which translates as "to lead astray." The act of seduction is to lead someone astray, and in imitating the siren, a girl is in danger of seducing herself. Of leading herself astray. When I was first becoming a woman, around the age of 13, I found myself in the community of "high value women" whos goal in life was to secure a "high value man." At the time I thought "high value" was in

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to bleed with no violence at all.

After my shower, when my legs are red from the heat of the water, I wrap in my towel and slide down the wall until I sit on the very edge of my towel. I think of so many things. The shower numbs the sound of the outside world, after the shower I exist somewhere between the inside and outside. I’m in the steam of the shower. I think of the people I want and the people I want to be. There’s a girl out there who could manage my life better than me. As I think of her and think of

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