By now I'm sure all of you have heard of the shooting in Santa Barbara this past Friday by the deranged gunman Elliot Rodger. He was a sexually frustrated 22-year old virgin who took out his aggression on the 6 people he killed that tragic day. Before the shooting, he recorded this haunting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL8h5UqNE2A Ever since I hit puberty, I've been forced to … [Read more...]
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What I’ve Learned from 10+ Years in the Seduction Community as an Introvert
(For those of you unfamiliar with the "Seduction Community," aka the "PUA community," it refers to the collective online communities of men trying to learn how to hook up with women without making things too awkward. "PUA material" refers to any writing or practical advice for men when it comes to dating and seduction.) As an introvert, I used to have lots of issues making me utterly useless … [Read more...]
May 12, 2013 5 Comments
4 Ways Society Makes You Suck With Women
There are many ways that modern society influences us negatively when it comes to women and dating. Fortunately, the pickup artist community seeks to undo the damage in order to turn men into men again, but many PUAs are oddly unspecific in terms of identifying what damage society actually does. I'm here to be specific. 1. "The first rule of Fight Club..." The first and second rules of Fight … [Read more...]
May 4, 2013 4 Comments
Objectification, Dehumanization, and Desensitization
There's something wrong. This can't be how nature intended for men and women to interact with each other. Why are there so many women who can't seem to understand men? Why are there so many men who can't seem to understand women? Why are there so many men these days who really have no idea what it actually means to be a man? Men and women have had a falling out, it seems. The overall … [Read more...]
April 23, 2013 Leave a Comment
Hurting the Ones We Love
"Have you ever noticed how the people we are most rude to are the ones we care most about, the ones we think we have the best relationships with? It's because we think we can afford to not be on our best behavior with them. Isn't that messed up? You're more polite to someone you don't like than to someone you truly love. I think that's a fundamental mindset that needs shifting." - Igor … [Read more...]
March 14, 2013 4 Comments
What Would You Rate This Woman?
There's been a series of images trending lately featuring several porn stars with and without makeup. I heard about it the other day over on Chris Shepard's blog and, though this hasn't been the first time I've seen a series of shocking images of women with and without makeup, seeing these sorts of images again really drilled into my head the fact that the perception of beauty in modern society is … [Read more...]
March 10, 2013 2 Comments
Why Women Want Rich Handsome Men
I recently wrote an article about the whole "looks don't matter" line that pickup artists keep telling themselves. Of course, looks are a factor when it comes to attraction, even if it's not as important of a factor as most people think. However, you may have noticed that women are always obsessing over rich, handsome celebrities on the magazine covers. And they're everything that you're … [Read more...]
February 25, 2013 Leave a Comment
What Men and Women Want
It's commonly said that "Men use love to get sex and women use sex to get love." We see it every day; many men pretend to want committed, romantic relationships through promises of undying desire in order to coax open the legs of women while many women sexually tease and sleep with men in an attempt to trap them into relationships that evolve into a loving bond. Does that sound about right … [Read more...]
January 22, 2013 Leave a Comment
Work Out Your Love Muscles!
"Love" isn't so narrowly defined as most people think. I just had an interesting conversation with one of my friends about the nature of love, and it made me re-evaluate and remind myself as to why I'm teaching this pickup stuff. These days, we human beings desperately need to exercise love, but perhaps not in the way that most people think. My friend approached me asking for advice about … [Read more...]
Street Harassment vs. Approaching Women
Recently there's been a youtube video going viral where a woman is walking through NYC. She was wearing very normal clothes that wouldn't be considered attention-grabbing or anything like that. Over a period of 10 hours walking through the city, more than 100 men tried to solicit her attention or, as some PUAs would call it, "approaching." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A It's … [Read more...]