Gaul Atreides (@gaulatreides)

It's not money. Not primarily. Gates and Bezos are richer than Croesus, yet their wives/gfs are mid to egads. It's not intimidation. These women go to places where the drug lords are known to frequent. The women seek them out. It's male power, in its modern permutations. Command, charisma, and control. Women drip like June dew for powerful men. And it's one other lure. A dark lure, hardly spoken aloud, entertained only in private thoughts or between the pages of a steamy romance novel. Dominance, and the intoxication of arbitration through violence. Social dominance, physical dominance, psychological dominance...the man who wields these weapons with the ease of familiarity is able to wrest from women their ultimate and most shocking feminine desire....to submit to a worthy man, and to feel the rush of having him at her side, to test her wiles at directing his untameable bloodlust.