lothario
Noun
Meaning
A gay seducer of women; a libertine.
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Technology’s hideous apogee comes in “The Smile,” where an ageing Lothario purchases a mannequin for sex, only to learn she is in fact real flesh and blood, but with a machine-like, efficient repetitiveness that maddens and enslaves him.
"In one South American country, a Filipino Lothario was sent to jail for seducing teenagers."
This story, read to a group of travelers at an inn, tells of a Florentine nobleman, Anselmo, who becomes obsessed with testing his wife's fidelity, and talks his close friend Lothario into attempting to seduce her, with disastrous results for all.