# Power attracts?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-attracts/118498
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 11, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-attracts/118498 "2002-07-11T20:50:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@GKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GKW)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-attracts/118498/1 "2002-07-11T20:50:52Z")
Why do people find power so attractive (sexually or otherwise)?
Can you separate this attribute from the person’s other qualities so that it doesn’t play a part in their attractiveness? Do you want to submit to a powerful person or challenge them? Are you naturally mistrustful of a person in power? Hey **moderators** - do you have to put up with a lot of fawning fan mail or hate mail because of your position? Do you get propositioned because of being a mod?
I was just wondering because when **Lynn** said
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> The confusion factor here is pretty high, so I’m gonna close this thread down. Some of you folks might hear from a mod/admin in e-mail.
I thought to myself that she sounded like Wilford Brimley in **Absence of Malice** and in some bizarre way it was kind of sexy!
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### Author:  [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-attracts/118498/2 "2002-07-11T20:57:39Z")
Usually people find power attractive, because it will make them more powerful as well. How about Tommy Mattola & Mariah Carey for an example.
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### Author:  [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-attracts/118498/3 "2002-07-11T21:06:58Z")
It’s not the power that attracts, it’s the confidence one gets from having power…that’s attractive.
Though I suppose that some people out there are (like gold-diggers) hoping it will get them what they lack.