Homes and Property | Home PageAre you a rake or a rogue?Ruth Bloomfield|Evening Standard13 April 2012Reformed Rake (or siren)How to spot them: once a good-time guy or girl who has settled down (for now) Example: Rod Stewart How to get them: offer them the chance to resume their old ways...Disappointed DreamerHow to spot them: generally unlucky in love Example: Bridget Jones How to get them: overblown gestures of adorationPampered Royal How to spot them easily bored and change partners/jobs rapidly Example: Naomi Campbell How to get them: provide plenty of distractions and spoil themProfessorHow to spot them: overanalyse everything, usually fairly wimpish Example: Woody Allen How to get them: make them feel strong and they will be yours to be looked afterNew Prude: How to spot them: obsessively politically correct Example: Coldplay's Chris Martin How to get them: tempt them with something naughty or dangerousCrushed Star: How to spot them: they crave attention Example: Jim Carrey in The Mask How to get them: hang on every word, pretend they are "A-List"Exotic Fetishist: How to spot them: loves all aspects of foreign lifestyles Example: Miss Jones in Rising Damp How to get them: play up anything that makes you exoticNovice How to spot them: young and fed up with being seen as innocent Example: Charlotte Church How to get them: novices go for people with experienceConqueror: How to spot them: ambitious and aggressive Example: Russell Crowe How to get them: don't look weakDrama Queen: How to spot them: makes mountains out of mole hills Example: Elton John How to get them: give them something to complain aboutRescuer: How to spot them: attracted to people with problems Example: Alex BestHow to get them: hint that you need to be looked afterBeauty: How to spot them: lonely due to intimidating good looks Example: Sophie Anderson How to get them: make much of their intellectAgeing Baby: How to spot them: refuse to accept adult responsibility Example: Edina and Patsy from Absolutely Fabulous How to get them: be the responsible oneRogue: How to spot them: rich hedonists and consumate seducers Example: Mick JaggerHow to get them: don't bother unless you are young and very good lookingIdol Worshipper: How to spot them: they pour their energy into a string of causes Example: Madonna How to get them: introduce them to a new lifestyle, and appear to be holier than thouSensualist: How to spot them: interested in fashion, colour, style Example: Jade Jagger How to get them: envelop them in spectacle.Lonely Leader: How to spot them: powerful, suspicious and distrustful. Example: Richard Gere in Pretty Woman How to get them: act as their equalFloating Gender: How to spot them: competitive women and men in touch with their female side Example: David Beckham How to get them: be the opposite to them so they can indulge their repressed side The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene is published 1 April by Profile Books, priced £12.99 MORE ABOUTBridget JonesChris MartinColdplayJim CarreyNaomi CampbellRod Stewart