It all starts with a mysterious moment. Attraction. The word itself attracts. Attraction is fantastically attractive. Especially when it is powerful and mutual.

Attraction can provide a link to another Human so irresistible that it feels like an enchantment, one that renders all needs and duties meaningless and irrelevant.

It all continous with more mysterious moments. One is distracted, unable to eat, unable to sleep, unable to concentrate.

All that matters is the next encounter, for with its consumption one will feel euphoric, blissful, with life and with tenderness.

With that other person, one will feel that nothing is missing any more. Couples so drawn, talk of being two halves, complete only when they are together.

Who would refuse such luxury, such security, such communion? Who would not want to be so lucky?

Does not it encourage exclusive pair-bonding in Humans, and the lovely dream that there is a perfect soul mate somewhere in the World?

Or is that feeling so preposterously wonderful that there has to be a catch somewhere?

Attraction can be so overwhelming for the individual, and for the individual’s necessary duties, that during most of Western history it has been considered dangerous and destabilising.

The Greeks portrayed sexual attraction as a weapon, a dart that might pierce the flesh and possess a soul, causing chaos among Humans and gods alike.