13.10.24

I'll be your mirror

 


Nico seemed so beautiful only because her femininity appeared so completely put on. She emanated something more than beauty, something more sublime, a different seduction. Only the non-female/female can exercise an untainted fascination, because she is more seductive than sexual. The fascination is lost when the real sex shows through; to be sure, some other desire may find something here, but precisely no longer in that perfection that belongs to artifice alone. Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex, and it commands the higher price.

Jean Baudrillard
1929 - 2007