Before the female species are waylaid into believing that this story is for adults only, let it be emphasized from the start that it is for everybody’s consumption except however those who still need parental guidance. For more emphasis, we are training our sights on femme fatales the kind of women who embody that mysterious and seductive attributes whose charms ensnare lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. To be morbid about it, fatal attractions, are more like it. But since this BGlante belongs to the male specie in the animal kingdom, what you are about to partake is the exact opposite of that irresistible desire to attract attention maybe in the name of love or lust. That exactly is what animal magnetism is all about.

Those who are partial to the legendary romantic exploits of such iconic playboys as Don Juan, Rudolph Valentino, Cassanova, Marquees de Sade, to name a few, will find this thesis interesting reading. Because for all their excellence in the women’s department, it’s never an understatement that they have one thing in common: the power to attract others through physical presence especially the opposite sex. Call it the height of braggadocio but we cannot help but herald our own track record in women pursuits if only to serve as an authority in today’s contemporary discussion about reproductive health. We hazard to be boastful for once because as a dirty old man what remains of its sting towards (we call it lethal once upon a time) women is one that is definitely succumbing to the law of diminishing returns. That we could no longer deliver what used to be a veritable avatar of testosterone is just but a thing of the past and has become a painful reality that stares us in the face day in and day out. If history is the final judge, then, we are willing to rest our case, in favor of losing by default. If we happen to be in the right side of history, so be it. What remains therefore is a fantasy of the past as retold in the life of an aging gigolo.

We chose our past romantic conquests as a term of reference in our present pre-occupation as some sort of a trying hard guidance counselor. Trying to act like an authority in boy-girl relationship, we stake our claim on how to react in tight situations “when boys behave like men”. We hazard to venture in these unknown territory to teenage girls in the wake of the presence of HNU interns in our outfit as part of their on the-job training in preparation for a baccalaureate of Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication. All between 18 and 19 years old , ages of whom only good as our own daughters, their lectures are not only confined to the nuances of news writing and news gathering, lay outing, headline writing and the like. They were also subjected to the dangers of teenage pregnancy. In short, it was some sort of a Sex Education 101 which after all is a mandatory subject in schools if the RH law will be in force. Besides, as main components of the new law, we feel it as an obligation to warn them of the perils of unwanted pregnancy especially if the young girls decide to carry on a serious relation of having a boyfriend.

Basing on our own experience with girls a little bit older, our favorite is 23 to 25, an age which is an amazing combination of intelligence and stupidity, our caveat for the interns was to get rid of the animal magnetism of the male specie. For one, we lectured them of how to refrain from giving their boyfriends the opportunity to exploit the situation where they are at the losing end. This mean, that they should avoid in going to private places where the element of temptation is irresistible. In other words, to escape the stigma of having to nurse a broken heart as a result of reckless imprudence, they better keep away from their boyfriends as much as possible lest they become victims of unplanned pregnancy. are telling the young girls is this: "Man is a tool-using animal.... Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. That’s animal magnetism, pure and simple.