ABSTRACT
In English, the word seduction is related to “leading someone astray.” In the Danish dictionary of Christian Molbech, the noun Forførelse (seduction) also connotes possible destruction-at least socially, since being seduced means that one is led astray with the attendant social repercussions. However, Molbech notes that Forførelse can also be used about something pleasant. Though Molbech says that the word is used playfully about that which is pleasant, the jest only emphasizes the pleasure of what is going to happen; the humor is not a negation of the pleasure.1
