So they sent their ravishing voices out across the air
and the heart inside me throbbed to listen longer.
I signaled the crew with frowns to set me free.
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 12, lines 208-210. The feminine power of the Sirens works on Odysseus. He caves in to the temptation of their alluring song and pleads with his crew to release him. But his shipmates, whose ears are plugged against the Sirens’ call, tie him with more ropes to the mast and speed past the Sirens to safety.