Book 1: The Seductive Character: Chapter 0: The Eighteen Types of Victims Summary and Analysis

Here ends the first section of the book, devoted to a lengthy description of the eighteen different types of potential victims: people to seduce. A warning opens the section: "never try to seduce your own type." The reason for this is because, "you will be like two puzzles missing the same pieces" and therefore ineffective in fulfilling each other's needs.

Not until the end of the chapter does the author provide readers with the one exception. These are some kind of expansion on what may have been mistaken for one of the dandies. Robert Greene calls them "the Gender Floaters" and, in this one case, he strongly encourages people to only seduce "their own kind."

Each type of seducer is described incompletely but...