The Thrill Of The Chase... Dramatized

I’ve recently discovered a long-lost art which I think can really revitalize the lives of those single women who are so inclined. For the thespians among us, it’s probably been a really long time since we set foot upon a stage. The call of the theatre probably evokes distant memories of high-school productions of Chamber Music, college musical theatre productions for those of us who were drama majors, etc. Remember the smell of the stage, the look of the dust wafting through the spotlights shining down upon it, the look and feel of the pots of face paint sprawled haphazardly everywhere?

And do you remember the thrill of it all?

One thing that I do miss, being single, is the thrill of the chase. The call of the wild, so to speak. There is something so primal and intoxicating about seduction, about the call-and-receive of the mating game, about pursuing and being pursued. And, more importantly, there’s something so intoxicating about being the SEDUCTRESS. Being the seducer, the sex goddess, the object of desire who magnetizes her admirers with the force of her sexuality – come on, it’s a turn-on. Of course, that can occur on any scale, from a girl flirting with a guy at a bar to a woman performing oral sex on her husband to Beyonce dominating a world stage.

Now, for sure, there’s way too much emphasis put on this type of sexual expression in our culture. As I’ve said elsewhere in my blog, sexuality is a bottomless toolbox of toys, and it’s a shame that we’ve created such a reductionist, objectifying paradigm for expressing it. How-EVAH. I don’t think we should trash this very potent aspect of sexuality either. The seductress/sex object paradigm may not be the only one we should aspire to, but it can be fun every once in a while, if you’re into that sort of thing.

And a really good way to tap into it, especially if you can’t find any seducees to succumb to your wily charms at the moment, is to play the tart in a theatrical production. Playing the lead in A Streetcar Named Desire or a fishnet-and-red-lipstick-wearing graduate student in French postmodernism in an avant-garde French play will give you a great frisson of sexual energy that, like the Energizer Bunny, will keep you going ON, and ON, and ON…. The sexier the script, the better. Anything from an Ntozake Shange play to the Rocky Horror Picture Show can titillate your senses. If you’re a thespian, and you long for an erotic thrill, do consider a community theater production or a local production of a work of drama. It might be the most fun you’ve had in a long time.