Fashion photographers make small fortunes by knowing how to get a certain look from a woman. You can look into any of the major fashion magazines and there it will be. She may be holding onto a man's sleeve, sizing up last year's wardrobe, or gallantly trying to hide behind this season's outrageous new fashion.

Next year the styles may be different, but that same look in a new style of clothes will be looking deeply into your eyes from her ever-changing background. The look itself never fundamentally changes.

The American woman, for instance, has been very good at playing opposites against each other ever since the advent of the hippie movement in the 1960s and now into the twenty-first century. Hippie women for example, learned to play off this kind of disinterested look against their long, straight, feminine hair, parted in the middle, falling to the middle of their backs. The contrast was tantalizing.

What is the look? The look says this, "I am consciously aware of being a woman. I have all the charms that a woman needs to satisfy a man. I know that you want me, and you can have me, but only on the condition that you do absolutely everything necessary to win me."

The attraction of the long-haired hippie woman is the contrast between the independent self-aware look in her eyes (which to a man appears as unattainable ness) and the long, straight hair to the middle of her back, which says, "I'm very feminine and fragile, and I need someone to protect me from the vicissitudes of life."

This is the crux of the woman's seductive charm. The height of that charm is expressed in her independent eyes, and then played off against the need to be taken care of. It just drives men to distraction.