The idea of 'attraction to ego' is one I play around with a lot, but never in the context of pride before. I think you'd be fascinated with this idea called SMV (Sexual Market Value). It's this idea that you have a true sexual market value, in most cases it's an arbitrary scale of 1-10, but then there's also a perceived SMV. You can raise your true SMV by doing the physical things: get into shape, hygiene, style, but you can also raise your overall perceived SMV through psychological and sociological attributes. Thanks for inspiring me to write a post on this, I hope you don't beat me to it :P