Have you read Swoon?  Send your comments to betsy@betsyprioleau.com.

Have you read Swoon?  Send your comments to betsy@betsyprioleau.com.

Have you read Swoon?  Send your comments to betsy@betsyprioleau.com.

Located in New York City, the School of Womanly Arts is the only institution that teaches women of all ages and backgrounds to use the power of pleasure to have their way with the world. Its founder, Regena Thomashauer aka “Mama Gena,” has spent over fifteen years researching what it is that makes a woman flourish. Most of us have little or no training in being deeply fulfilled, gratified, joyful, creative, adored, passionate women. We’ve been taught primarily how to accomplish or be effective and productive. Mama Gena created the Womanly Arts Mastery Program to teach you how to use the technology of the “Womanly Arts” to drop your old conditioning of “no pain, no gain” and create a life designed by your desires.

This program has helped thousands of women around the world to create their dreams, and I am thrilled to be a part of its assemblage of guest experts in the world of women. Mastery kicks off March 16^th, so if you’re curious about signing up, click here for all the details. I would love to see you there.

Read the review (link opens a PDF).

From Dolce Belllezza:

Betsy Prioleau has taken it upon herself to untangle what it is that makes us swoon and listed more qualities of what women look for in men than I could include in this post. Combined with these qualities, are descriptions of men which fit them such as the charisma of Bill Clinton, the adornment of Sir Walter Raleigh, the manly jaw of Johnny Depp, etc.

But, my favorite part of what she’s done in her book, Swoon, is to list novels under which we can find characters exhibiting the traits women find so alluring. The reader in me, perhaps more than the feminine side of me, thrills to these titles:

• The Player/Seducer can be found in Neil Strauss’ The Game
• Intensity/Passion can be found in Wuthering Heights, Balzac’s The Memoirs of Two Brides and Colette’s The Other One.
• Love of Women can be found in Chekhov’s The Lady With The Dog, Somerset Maugham’s Up at The Villa, Jennifer Cruise’s Bet Me
• Androgyny can be found in Maureen Child’s Turn My World Upside Down and Anne Lamott’s Blue Shoe
• The Quicksilver Man can be found in Waller’s The Bridges of Madison County, Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Isak Dineson’s Out of Africa
• Flawed Manhood can be found in Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons and A Month in The Country
• Morality/Virtue can be found in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
• Courage can be found in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises
• Spiritual Cultivation can be found in Patricia Gaffney’s To Love and To Cherish
• Knowledge/Intelligence can be found in the Kama Sutra and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
• Social I.Q./Empathy can be found in Milan Kunderas’ The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Self Realization can be found in Alice Munro’s story Passion, or the infamously popular Fifty Shades of Grey.

Prioleau continues with her list far beyond the few I’ve listed here. The qualities that she finds are seemingly endless, and beg the question, “What do you find most alluring?” not to mention, “Are the men of today offering it?”

Read the full review at DolceBellezza.net.