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A Man's Guide to the Seduction and

Sexual Enchantment of Women
by Michael Pilinski

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& Michael Pilinski

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Dedicated to all the girls who probably still hate me

(I forgot all your names, sorry)

A Man's Guide to the Seduction and

Sexual Enchantment of Women
by Michael Pilinski
Introduction .....................................................................

Part 1: Understanding You

Your 7 Necessary Skills as a Man: ...................................... 18
Self Reliance ..................................................................
Emotional Balance .........................................................
A Realistic Self Image ....................................................
Fear and Pain Control ....................................................
Sexual Confidence .........................................................
Financial Sanity ..............................................................
A Standard Mate Hunting Routine ..................................

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Developing An Edge For Yourself ............................................ 58

Crackpots and First Impressions .............................................. 59

Part 2: Understanding Her

Five Essential Things to Know About Women ................... 64
Hot Chickness is a Superpower .....................................
Self-Transcendence Makes Her Different ......................
Attraction For Her is All About Chemistry .......................
She Can Cheat, You Can't .............................................
Eye Contact Defines a Woman's Romantic Universe.....

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Part 3: Meeting Women

The Mechanics of Attraction .....................................................
What Women Want to Hear .....................................................
Complicated Pick-up Lines Kill .................................................
Effective Opening Comments ...................................................
Pull-Tabbing .............................................................................
Reading Her Mood ...................................................................
Confess Your Fear ...................................................................
Pacing the Conversation ..........................................................
Custom Commenting ...............................................................
Revealing the Hit ......................................................................
Set Her Up for the Close ..........................................................
Card Sharking ..........................................................................
Meeting Women in Bars and Clubs .........................................
A Fictional Example of Pull-Tabbing ........................................

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Part 4: Dating Her

The Dreaded First Phone Call ................................................. 171
Image, Investigation & Escalation ........................................... 180
The Three Date Master Seduction .......................................... 188

Date #1 -- The Action Date .................................................. 191

Action = Passion ............................................................
First Visual Impression ..................................................
Flowers and Candy? ......................................................
Setting Yourself Up for the Second Date .......................

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Date #2 -- The Connecting Date .......................................... 201

Spark Her Up .................................................................
5 Critical Steps to Avoiding the Friends Zone ................
Your Behaviors Create a Trance ....................................
Non-Verbal Signs of Interest ..........................................

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Date #3 -- The Romance Date

No Fear in the Red zone ................................................ 216
Benevolent Manipulation ................................................ 219
Negotiating Closeness ................................................... 223

Part 5: Her Sexual Enchantment

The Trance of Romance Revisited ........................................... 232
Custom Designed Sexual Seduction ........................................ 234
Her Sexual Enchantment .......................................................... 236
First Sex ................................................................................... 240
First Sex Do's-and-Don't's ........................................................ 243
Second Sex .............................................................................. 246
Passion Models the Response You Desire .............................. 249
Third Sex the Infinite and Beyond ............................................ 253
Helga the Horrible .................................................................... 257
Defining the Perfect Sexual Partner ......................................... 262
Keep the Child in You Alive ...................................................... 267
Shamelessness is the Key ....................................................... 270

Conclusion:
The Clock Never Rests .................................................. 273

lright Romeo, why dont you give it a rest for a couple minutes? Thats
enough for now...
The mans voice pushed its way through the metallic din of rock music
blasting away no less than 30 feet away from me in all its garage-band glory. He
sounded like an older guy, maybe ten years older than me. Mid-twenties. At the
moment I didnt care I was buried tongue-deep in some girls face who Id only
met a few minutes earlier... kissing her as if I needed to steal the air from her
lungs in order to survive. How long were we going at it? Wed been making out
on the bleachers for so long now that I had lost track of time. Long enough to
piss this guy off I guess. Whoever the hell he was.
I ignored him, hoping that if I just lingered inside the delicious mouth of this
girl whos name I didnt yet know, he would eventually disappear... a figment of
my psychedelic love-high. My girl smelled so wonderful, a mix of B.O. and hippy
teen perfume that enhanced the dreamlike quality of our shared trance. Then I
felt a hand rudely clasp my shoulder and shake me back and forth against her
tight little freshman breasts.
Comon Romeo, the voice said again, more sternly this time, knock it off!
I drew away from my woman and watched the flickering colors of the
school gymnasium melt back into focus all around me. My eyes zoomed in on
the guy looming over me dressed in solid black. I stared at him for a second and
wondered what his problem was, then the stiff white collar impacted my fogged
brain like a punch in the gut and I understood immediately... priest. Presumably,
Father had just about had enough of watching me make out with a girl who
probably sat in the front of his English class here at Bishop Carroll High School.
Whadya say we take a break there for awhile, okay? He looked to be
fresh out of the seminary. Young Father couldve been a prick and made a
scene, but he didnt and that was cool. So I did what he asked and leaned away
from my girl. Whats-her-name looked scared like she was about to puke or
something, so I untangled myself nonchalantly and slid far enough away so that

her hurl would miss me. She pretended to become busy fluffing her hair and
wouldnt even look at Father Dude, whod kindly backed off a few feet but was
apparently going to continue to monitor the situation for awhile. Nameless
mumbled something about her friends or that she would see me later and then
high-tailed it out of there fast, totally embarrassed. No problem. I would catch up
with her later on, if I wanted to if something better didnt come sliding along.
This was all just shooting fish in a barrel for me, you see.
I never did see her again that evening, but thats okay. I was soon face-toface with another schoolgirl that I knew from the neighborhood later on that
evening, Marsha whats-her-name. She wanted me too, I could tell, but Marsha
could remain in a holding pattern until I was good and ready to take her. She,
along with several girls from my circle of friends, were all currently serving as
fantasy fodder for a kid who was wacking off 3 times a day (and couldnt scare up
a shred of porn to save his life back in 68!) But so what?... she was mine...
anytime I wanted her. Mine for the taking.
Reality could wait for now. I was having too much fun living out this
adventure... mostly inside my own head, unfortunately.

A few weeks later, I received a letter in the mail addressed to me. A handaddressed letter. Hmmm? What could this be I thought, as I opened it under the
suspicious eye of my mom. The letter turned out to be a mysterious, unsigned
note from a girl who claimed that she lived on the next block where I delivered
newspapers, and that she thought I was cute, and etc. Hey, she had a crush on
the paperboy! What would you expect? She told me in this letter that if I was
interested in knowing more about who she was, that I should wear a blue shirt or
something else blue next Monday while doing my route. She would be watching,
and if I produced this positive signal then another letter would be forthcoming with
more clues as to her identity. Too cute or what? Ha!... yet another helpless fish
in the barrel looking for my attention!
My nosey mom was curious about the letter, but I wouldnt let her know that
the message was from a girl. I told her it was just some stupid shit from my dumb
ass buddy down the street, that he was just messing around. You see, mom
certainly wouldve seized on the opportunity to make fun of me in her uniquely
shame-instilling way had I dared to tell her that some girl was expressing an
interest in me romantically. This part of my life had to remain top secret. Little

did I know at the time that mom was slowly but surely poisoning my spirit by
causing me to feel ashamed of these types of perfectly normal feelings but that
was something I would not yet understand for another 25 years.
I wracked my brain thinking about all the people who lived up and down
both sides of that long street (I had a huge, 80 house paper route!) in order to
puzzle out who this girl could possibly be. By process of elimination I was
eventually able to narrow it down to one particular girl who lived right near the
start of the route near Walden avenue. I think her name was Sue or something?
I could remember her giving me the classic little shy smile once when I was
collecting at her house. Big disappointment she wasnt really my type
(whatever the hell that means at such a young age), and so I decided not to play
her game.
And so I made sure not to wear anything blue that day, and apparently she
made note of this unfortunate fact because I never received another letter from
her. Too bad.
Years later I would run across Sue in a nearly passed-out drunken state
at a nightclub that myself and my buddies frequented. I heard that she was an
easy slut. And to think that she couldve been my first real girlfriend if only Id
worn a blue shirt that day. Now 19, I was still a virgin but, eh... so what? With my
luck I wouldve probably just knocked her up and been stuck with her anyway.
Then what would mom have thought?
The important thing was she couldve been mine for the taking, if I had
actually wanted her. But I passed her up for other more tempting fish in the
barrel... fish that I never actually landed, but hey, so what? No big deal, right?

Sometimes a single defining moment can crystallize everything for you all
at once, but not necessarily steer you off in a good direction. I had such a
reverse-gear moment at another high school dance later that year. Remember,
this was a time when you usually didnt bring a date along to a function like this
you were expected to somehow know how to "pick one up" once you got to the
event. At fifteen years of age. Yeah right... pass that bottle of Cherry Mist wine
this way, wouldja?

Anyway at some point during the evening, I found myself out on the dance
floor with this girl who Id barely been able to say a word to because the music
was so loud. Im talking about non-contact 60's style fast dancing here of course,
so we never actually touched each other. When the song ended, a pivotal
moment in my life occurred. As the noise subsided for a moment and I moved in
closer to introduce myself with a nice big smile, her reaction to me could only be
described as stunning. When this girl saw me take a step in her direction, her
eyes bugged-out with a horrified look as if I were some kind of headless
creature... and then she quickly darted away in a panic and vanished into the
crowd... In a panic!
I have no recollection of what this girl actually looked like because the
moment was so filled with disbelief, but I will never, ever forget that look in her
eyes. It was a look of sheer terror! I realize now of course, years later, that
she was probably just responding to her own anxiety as a boy was about to hit
on her, but thats not how it impacted my young mind at the time. To me, it
seemed as though my very appearance was frightening to her in some way. I
wasnt merely geeky or awkward as teenagers generally are in social situations, I
was a monster of some sort. I was horrible to her horrifying to all women! Girls
were staggering back from me in terror when they saw me lurching in their
direction...

I was Frankenstein!
Sullen, I left the dance early and walked home very alone that night, utterly
shaken to the core by this experience. Hey, I knew I was no handsome star
quarterback or anything, but it never occurred to me that I was actually repulsive
to women. What a shocking slap of cold reality! For the first and fortunately only
time in my life, I actually thought about killing myself thats how hideous and
inhuman I felt at that moment. It was a feeling that I would continue to carry with
me in some form or another for years. And all because of a single, surprise
reaction from a girl that Id mistakenly interpreted as being an accurate
assessment of my un-worthiness as a man!
I was making a very dangerous, generalized assumption about my selfworth based on a very small sample of data, but I truly believed that if one female
selected at random regarded me in this terribly unflattering manner then they
must all think this way, right? This was a very critical thinking error that
would haunt me for a very long time.

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What I didn't fully understand at the time was that in that instant of frivolous
rejection, whatever little self-assurance in my fledgling romantic abilities I mayve
fooled myself into thinking I possessed had been completely obliterated not to
return again in any real sense for another 12 years. Good thing I couldn't see
that far into the future, or maybe I wouldve chugged the hemlock that night.

Horrible as it mayve been for my social development which was by now

firmly on a Woody Allen-like path to non-existence, none of the preceding bullshit
really mattered in the big picture of my life. Thats because the real fish that I was
after were these two girls from my neighborhood who were absolutely drop-dead
gorgeous. The kind of girls that older guys get themselves in trouble even
looking at. Lets call them Laura and Mandy. They were both the younger sisters
of my two close buddies, and I still felt like I had a corner on them. Id always
assumed they were mine for the taking whenever I decided to get around to it of
course. Actually, there was a third girl in the mix too, but she was almost like a
sister to me and although I pounded out buckets of wasted jizz thinking about
these three girls almost every day of my teenage life, my designs were on either
Laura or Mandy.
As they were each a bit younger than me I continued to toy with them for
now however, waiting... waiting until the time was right for me to decide on which
one I would take as my Girlfriend. There was plenty of time you see... they were
money in the bank maybe still a little too immature yet. I would tease them
along and allow them to both season a bit before making my choice. I was
having so much fun just anticipating all the thrills that would follow once I laid my
claim to one of them and finally (you guessed it...) made her mine!
Then one day the unthinkable happened. Two guys showed up out of
nowhere (actually, from an adjacent neighborhood) and stole both of my girls!
Ned and Danny were their names, and theyd apparently met Laura and Mandy at
the local public swimming pool and swept them away with a display of boyish
charm or whatever. Before long, the four of them were an item around the hood,
hanging around and double-dating as boyfriends and girlfriends... right under my
nose!
Up until this time remember, Id been flirting around with both these girls
like I owned them. It was intoxicating at my young age to have this sort of

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attention from these flowering beauties constantly being directed my way, and
now suddenly they were gone.
Intoxicating is a good word to describe the high of those indescribable
rushes of passion that happen when the hormones of adolescence first begin to
make themselves known. It is literally a chemical high. But when you rip away
the source of that high you come face to face with the sinister flip side of
intoxication: withdrawal. For me, just knowing that these girls were more fish in
the barrel provided a sense of anticipation that was as good as the real thing
(okay, which I had yet to experience, but still, perception can be reality if you have
no reference in reality). Now in an instant itd been swiped away by these two
pricks from the other side of the tracks!
And the attitude change in my two girls was startling to me as well.
Whereas before I could flirt with them and expect a delightful return volley, I
suddenly found theyd turned cold to me. Refusing to make eye contact, moving
away whenever I got too close to them physically. Laura even became somewhat
contemptuous at one point, telling me once that I should be a man and go find
my own girlfriend. You know, just like her little Danny had found her. Little bitch!
This state of affairs was unacceptable to the 15 year old me, and the jealously
and rage boiled like hot lava.
I had a big problem though... I couldnt fully express what I was feeling
without seeming like a complete fool because my claim on them had always
been strictly within my own head it was apparent now that thered never been
any true reciprocal desire. All my flirting around had been viewed far differently
by Laura and Mandy. They were just practicing I guess, marking time until the
right guys came along to sweep them away like fairy princesses.
My suppressed rage began to make me irrational. Dan and Ned became
frequent faces around the neighborhood and I couldnt help but encounter them a
lot. Ned actually split up with Mandy and began dating a different girl after a few
weeks, but Danny continued on with Laura (who naturally became the focus of
my unrequited love) and his annoying personality soon began to grate on me.
He was a big time bullshitter... weaving all sorts of ridiculous stories about every
stupid little experience that he ever had, blowing everything out of proportion, etc.
And he sort of took delight in the fact that he was fucking a chick that I dug. That
was it, this kid had to die. Plain and simple.

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Well of course, I wasnt really going to kill him or anything, but he definitely
needed a good ass-whipping. And of course with my flair for the dramatic, this
wasnt going to go down with me just getting up in his grill the next time I saw him
or anything like that. I was going to hunt him down and make him pay for his
transgressions... James Bond style!
Thats right, it was time to prepare for a mission.
So one night when I was sure that he could probably be found hanging out
somewhere around the hood with my girl, I saddled up for my mission. Id
already taken the liberty of buying a bottle of liquid courage at a nearby liquor
store and stashing it in the fields near my house. Back in the 60's, it was
laughably easy to get fake proof and misrepresent your way into bars or even buy
beer at the corner store. By age 15 I already had long hair, sideburns and a
moustache and could easily pass for 18, which was legal drinking age. No one
checked like they do today because no one gave a shit what the fuck kids were
out there doing as long as they didnt burn the house down (which I almost did
anyway trying to make my own model rocket fuel, but thats another story ;-).
Dressed from head to toe in Special Ops black (except for my dirty
sneakers of course) I left the house about 9 PM at nightfall and headed for the
fields. At my secret spot near an open trestle I dug out the fifth of Ol Granddad
Id hidden and began doing shots. It was sometime near the start of July, but I
remember it was past the Fourth already. Fifteen years old, 1969. Men would
walk the moon in just a few weeks for the first time ever, but for this private moon
mission I felt I needed to get a little juiced because normally I wasnt the sort of
guy to pick a fight. I had to make sure my righteous rage super-powered me
above and beyond any rational misgivings that I might encounter when the
moment of truth arrived and I was finally locked-up with this punk Dan. So the
booze was necessary I thought. Hey, teenage logic at work.
I moved stealthily through the neighborhood for what mustve been close to
an hour, pacing out a grid of streets. Searching. None of my friends seemed to
be out this evening the corners where we all usually hung around were empty.
No Danny boy, no nothing. Undissuaded, I continued stalking my human prey,
Ninja-like... moving like a tipsy black ghost up and down the side streets. By now
Id consumed about a fourth of the fifth, and let me tell you that things were
beginning to get a bit wobbly.

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Then suddenly when I peeked through a couple of adjoining yards, I

thought I spotted someone familiar walking down another street parallel to the
one I was presently stumbling along. It was just a fleeting glimpse before I lost
sight of him, but the kid seemed about Dans built and it would likely be him
because this was close to where Laura lived. He mustve been at her house, and
now was headed home!
Now was my chance! But there was a problem... there wouldnt be time for
me to catch him even by running the full length of the street I was on and then
over to the nearest crossroad. The only way I could get him would be to cut
across through the yards and head him off before he could escape. Ha... perfect!
James Bond style!
Missile-locked on my target now, I slipped into the yard and went up and
over the fence at a point I knew would be clear landings on the opposite side.
You see, for kicks myself and several of my friends used to go fence-hopping
throughout our neighborhood. We were so skilled that at one point I timed us for
fun and discovered we could go the entire length of our street 54 houses in
about 8 minutes. This yard was part of that familiar chain and so I cruised
through it like an old friend and was right up behind Dan in a few seconds. I
walked up, dropped a hand on his shoulder and spun him around. I wanted to
see the startled look in his eyes just before I slugged him. He was startled all
right, but goddamn... it wasnt him. I didnt know who this dude was.
Oh sorry man, I thought you were one of my buddies. I offered up this
lame excuse and the guy was on his way. Shit. Now suddenly, drunken me
became convinced that it wasnt going to be in the cards for tonight... that Dan
simply wasnt anywhere to be found. Disheartened, I ducked into someones
driveway and started hopping the fences back to my house. About halfway home
some guy was in his yard tossing out the garbage and he sicced his fucking dog
on me. I just barely made it over the fence with a German Shepard or some
other beast snapping away hungrily at my ass. I cut back onto the regular
sidewalk and lurched the rest of the way back home, then Ninjaed myself back
into the house silently so as not to wake my parents.
Upstairs, sprawled out on my bed, the room whirled like a top. I felt a little
trickle of what I would later discover to be blood running down the inside of my
left forearm where Id probably cut myself on one of the many fences Id jumped.

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Or maybe the dog had gotten a chunk of me there would be no way to know
until I died of rabies I suppose.
I turned in my licence to kill. Mission un-accomplished.

The preceding time-skip down ol memory lane was brought to you

courtesy of my clueless and confused adolescence and, thirty-five years later,
Im still trying to recover from fundamental mistakes made and then hard-wired
into me during that time of gaiety and wonderment. I offer up these funny stories
from my misguided yoot in order to demonstrate my humble roots to you. I
believe its important for you to understand that the book you are about to read is
not the work of some highly-degreed research psychologist or the fruit of some
grad-school dissertation. It comes straight from the heart of a guy who needed to
learn this stuff in order to save his own life, and it carries a good chunk of my soul
along with it.
You therefore wont find a lot of footnotes, statistical charts outlining the
results of double-blind studies, or even an extensive bibliography to back up
every little claim that I make. Nor am I going to blow a lot of sunshine up your
ass and tell you that my eclectic knowledge of women is drawn from my vast
experience as a world-hopping playboy. As you just comically witnessed, I lost
about ten years of valuable social activity due to my delusional, misguided and
dreadful late start. I ended up doing things with women at 26 that I shouldve
been doing at 16, having experiences at 35 that I shouldve had at 25. That sort
of busted social life required a powerful amount of thinking to straighten out, and
thats mainly what Ill be looking to pass along all throughout the book to you, the
reader.
So what can you expect to learn from this hard-boiled spilling-of-the-guts
that youre poised to read? My earlier book dealt with the psychological problem
of rejection fear, the concept of toxic shame, and it introduced the idea of male
status and dominant behavior as primary markers of male attractiveness. This
book will also have its share of theorizing, especially in the first two segments, but
it will always seek to present practical solutions for you to use at every turn. In
that sense its more of a workbook than a textbook.

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With Shes Yours for the Taking, I will be making an attempt to go

beyond the notion of picking up women as an end in itself, and instead will
address the entire scope of seduction from hello there to screaming orgasm.
What Ive tried to do is construct a concise Romantic Plan that will allow
you to take a woman with which you share some mutual desire and bond her
soul to your own within only a few weeks... or perhaps even days. This is a big
chunk of meat Ive torn off for myself, Im sure youll let me know if it was more
than I can chew.
Before we go boring full speed into this thing though, I have to make sure
you grasp both the significance and the limitations suggested by the title of this
book.
Am I making the ultimate bold assertion here or what? Am I saying that
you can read this book and then nail any girl that you want?... that you can just
point to some random chick and say, shes mine? No, thats crazy and
impossible. I would have to be a total huckster to make such a ridiculous
assertion, and you would have to be a complete dunce to believe it. Theres no
accounting for every single little quirk of cognition in the human mind we are all
as different as snowflakes and it will continue to be so until they start turning us
out in clone factories like Twinkies. Your odds of scoring any particular woman
are always something less than absolute simply because there are too many
variables in the game of attraction to ever have them reduced to a simple formula
that can be run like some automated device. Humans dont work that way, and
Im sure you understand this.
The things I will show you in this book are designed to improve your odds
tremendously at every step along the way from the moment of first seeing some
girl who catches your fancy, to actually turning her into a robust sex partner. But
of course there can be no concrete guarantees. Too many guys get fixated on a
certain girl and their mission becomes to land her alone to the exclusion of all
other possibilities, and this is a pathetic way to approach this grand adventure.
You already saw how such warped thinking facilitated my own adolescent
ruination I lost out on a lot of great sex and many good times because of my
woefully misguided beliefs that people had to somehow be bent to my Will, or
they were just another worthless part of the problem.

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I know that some of you guys mayve bought this book because you feel
you absolutely have to score that raven-haired chick in the third last row of your
poli-sci class and nothing else will do! But Im here to tell you theres no way to
force such a thing to happen with absolute certainty. And anyone who tells you
so is full of shit.
By sheer lousy luck, for instance, you could bear a striking resemblance to
Ravens dear old uncle Fester whom she fondly remembers as having yellow
teeth, booze breath and was always making her sit on his lap so he could running
his greasy hands all over her little 8 year old behind. How are you going to fight
such a deeply-ingrained creepy memory like that which could be stuck way down
in her subconscious mind like hardened glue? A disturbing old memory that your
face happens to trigger? How you gonna do it?
Youll do it by unlocking your narrowed focus and waking up to a world of
romantic possibility that extends far beyond that one girl, thats how. By learning
when its best to take a shot and when its best to move on and preserve your
confidence to fight another day. By learning to see the universe of females as a
playground to be savored during all the various phases that you will eventually
experience throughout the grand sweep of your own life. Yours for the taking?
In the end, probably more than you can handle.
Hell, if I can just convince you to go ahead and wear the goddamn blue
shirt when you finally have a chance to, maybe Ill have succeeded!
Alright then, lets get ready to rock your world...

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Your 7 Necessary Skills as a Man

have a confession. When I wrote my first book a few years ago, I was
working with a half a tank of gas. Sure, I had figured out several critical aspects
about women based mainly on all the many good and bad experiences that Id
personally had with them. I admit now though that my presentation mayve been
somewhat limited because I had only a single case to draw from... namely, my
own. A sample of one can never span the full range of possibilities regardless of
the subject, and certainly not one as complex and wide-ranging as the human
emotional life, can it? I knew what problems I had experienced in my own life that
had held me back, but that hardly comprised a clinical trial. Regardless, I wrote
that book anyway.
Well that situation has changed during the intervening years... to say the
least! You see, as part of the package of bonuses that I offered along with that
first e-book I invited readers to send in their questions and concerns about
women... how best to deal with crazy female behaviors, strategies to mend a
broken heart, how to let a girl down easy that you just didnt dig, etc. I have since
been honored with stories shared by men from all over the world on this
fascinating yet maddening subject. The results were a never-ending source of
amazement to me...extraordinarily revealing, an education in their own right.
And I would think that the manner in which I came to know of these things
was far more effective than any staged clinical trial could ever be... because the
information was not pulled from some questionnaire that had been passed out to
a controlled cross-section of men from all various socio-economic classes and
cultures... it was all self-volunteered.
Ask and ye shall receive. Man, did ye ever!

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Representing a detached virtual voice on the other end of an e-mail

address meant that guys were willing to spill out their guts to me in a way Im sure
they wouldve never dreamed of doing in the presence of a friend or perhaps
even a live therapist. In this sense I guess they certainly were acting without
embarrassment... with me anyway!
I got mail on topics that were completely off topic as much as they
concerned romantic issues regarding women. Lots of meaning-of-life kind of stuff
that I tried my best to answer whenever possible. Questions about rage and
projecting imagined feelings onto others who didnt deserve it, about standing
down bullies at school and dealing with middle management punks in the
corporate world. About breaking a lifelong pattern of sweeping general failure
even about sexual addictions and suffocating phobias. Many of these exchanges
are posted on my website in the Authors Forum. Go have a peek if you havent
seen some of them yet: www.HighStatusMale.com/forum_01.htm
The point is, this wide range of concerns from men all over the world
gradually crystalized into a pattern that began to communicate to me what it was
that troubled them most. Not just about women, but about life in general. Now I
had feedback that finally went beyond just my own personal experience base!
This feedback proved to be an incredible education for me, and so I began to
take notes... notes that were peppered with question marks. After many months I
went back through these notes in an attempt to simplify and distill out only the
most vitally important issues things that were really preventing guys from
grabbing life by the balls and living it to the max. After a while, I was able to boil
this list down to seven major areas where guys seemed to be having the most
difficulty with their lives. Here they are:
Self Reliance
Emotional Balance
Realistic Self Image
Fear and Pain Control
Sexual Confidence
Financial Sanity
A Standard Mate-hunting Routine
This is by no means an exhaustive list of every conceivable mens issue of
course although further examination may become possible in your own life as a
result of your finally being forced to confront them. You see, as these 7

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necessary skills are tended to and the anxieties they produce begin to disappear,
you may become inspired to explore more personal issues like philosophy and
spirituality, focus your efforts on wherever your dreams may lead you. Things of
this nature.
Bottom line: I think the trouble many guys have hooking up with women
stems from the fact that a lot of their mental house needs to be put in order. If
you can get a handle on the most troublesome areas of your life, whos to say
what romantic adventures are awaiting the new & improved you? Suspend
disbelief for a few minutes now and put your thinking cap on. How much of the
following is relevant in your own life?

Self Reliance
The concept of your personal level of self-reliance is closely linked with
your feelings about yourself as a man. The more self-reliant you are in a general
sense, the more confident you will feel about most everything else in your world,
including your ability to deal with women. You might be able to sweet talk your
conscious mind into believing that being 32 years old and still living in your
parents basement is no big deal because you havent had your break yet, but
theres no fooling your unconscious mind. It understands your dependancy and
the fears that drive it, and since this is where your basic self-image is rooted you
can be certain that it will effect the vibe that you put out around women.
And P.S. it will not be a good vibe. And Double P.S. you wont be able to
hide behind a phoney front.
Guys who are overdue to have flown the coop think they can fool women
into overlooking their sub-standard lifestyle by sinking their entire fortune into a
hot set of 4x4 wheels with a nice concrete-cracking boombox laying out a sonic
vapor trail behind them. This is known as driving around in your net worth. It
doesnt take a mathematical genius to figure out that the only way a guy who
sweeps floors for $6 bucks an hour can afford such a great ride is if his rent,
utilities, groceries, etc. are still being paid for by mom and dad.
This notion of self-reliance is closely tied to your age as well of course. If
youre still in high school, no one expects you to be living in your own apartment
yet. Or if youre working your way through college I suppose its alright too. But
42 and still double-bunking in the trailer with mom?

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This issue isnt entirely about how youre being perceived by others
(although that is a big factor) its also about how you view yourself. Namely,
as a child. For a man especially, allowing yourself to remain dependant on
someone else for your basic support and survival is insidiously destructive to your
sense of male power and authority. Always in the background lurks this
uncomfortable feeling that you are somehow not quite a man yet no matter how
gruff you try to act or how much body art you ink on. The bad thing is that this
sense takes root in your unconscious mind where it leaks out unrealized through
your general attitude. And women have highly sensitive antenna when it comes
to sizing you up as well see in the next section.
Beyond the corrosive effect that living under someone elses wing has on
your self-confidence are the mundane logistical problems that it also presents
when trying to seduce women. In the segment on Dating that well tackle later on
in this book, Ill show you how the third date (the get laid date) hinges on your
being able to set things up environmentally so that you have the necessary
privacy that it requires to nail her. When I was 22 years old and still living under
the watchful hawk-eye of my mom, the only privacy I had available for trying to
make out with chicks (and/or feel them up) was the back of my shitbucket 67
Ford Econoline van!... Hippies arise!
Talk about doing it WITH embarrassment! This hulk was little more than
rolling humiliation spray-painted in K-Mart blue... and directly from fuckin spray
cans! Were talking Third World paint job here. Tooling around in that bucket its
little wonder why, at that phase of my life, I considered myself little more than a
fucking worm with my self-esteem buried down in the negative numbers
somewhere.
Now 22 would still be okay to be hanging around at home if I were grinding
my way through college or just starting out on a career track or something but
Id blown all that off in favor of a string of minimum wage jobs that might as well
have paid off in bags of salt for all they were worth to me in terms of generating
any self-respect.
I tell you this pathetic tale of woe only because I get letters from guys all
over the world who claim to have this and that problem with women but I can
tell from the background info they give me on themselves that their real problem
stems from the way in which they live. Dependant on others parents, older
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regard yourself as a Man when youre under someone elses economic thumb, no
matter what other benefits you may use to justify it. You basically can focus all
your time and money on playing around and buying all sorts of fun junk for
yourself, instead of paying for stupid shit like, you know... rent and electricity. The
inertia of any given lifestyle that youve settled into can be tough to overcome
because it has numerous addictive factors. Why kill the golden goose?

And yes... theres bad news as well. Living on your own means spending a
significant amount of your time on mundane crap like shopping and cleaning and
doing the occasional load of shitty laundry while wasting your valuable
Playstation 3 money on things like rent, cable-gas-electric bills and groceries...
stuff that youre pretty much already getting for next to nothing. It therefore feels
like a major step backwards to have to suddenly work hard in order to continue to
have most of what you already currently own for free.
But were not talking about convenience here... were talking about the
emotional effect this lifestyle has on your consciousness. On your confidence
your sense of pride and maturity that goes along with demonstrating the ability to
fend for yourself. It may not seem like a big deal at first, but the attitudinal shift
born of striking out on your own will be evident in the sparkle it puts in your eye
and the spring in your step. And the women will take notice.
How to go about setting up your home or apartment so it becomes the
ultimate chick-trap is something that I detailed in my first book, so I wont repeat
everything here. Suffice to say that until you are actually in your own place
paying your own bills, you wont have an opportunity to design your own playpen
anyway. So times a wastin!
I myself stayed at home too long because I felt it was more important for
me to preserve the ability to tell my boss to go fuck himself than be free and
independent and there was no way I could do that with a fat mortgage or rent

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payment hanging over my head like an axe ready to fall. They wouldve known I
was trapped, that I was their virtual slave, and that I would have to kiss their ass
or else. Dont be an asshole like I was back then dont let your pride and your
false arrogance (disabled Will) paint you into a corner and rob you of your male
honor. Its more important cut the cord and begin your solo adventure through life
as your own man no matter the sacrifices. The positive change it will have on
your self-worth and attitude are as good as gold and can be hard to imagine if
you havent stepped off this cliff yet.
But the women sure will notice.

Emotional Balance
Balance is a concept that I hammer on constantly because I believe that
walking the midpoint stripe between fanatical extremes in any area of human
interest is the best way to go, whether youre talking about how often you allow
yourself to get wrapped up in work or a hobby (like golf), or how much time you
spend being serious vs. playful and humorous. Going too much in either direction
in any area of your life is troublesome. People can only take so much of our
bullshit. If you let yourself become known as Mr. _____ because youre so
obsessed with some kind of nutty behavior, it wont be long before most everyone
is avoiding you like the plague. Or they mock you behind your back, or fear you,
or... whatever.
None of this is beneficial to the promotion of a vigorous social life. Any
over-expressed personality imbalance can drive people far enough from your
orbit that it makes whatever opportunities you do get all but useless. For
instance, if you typically stumble into one chance to hook up with a girl once
every two years or something like that, it does you no good because your skills
are so atrophied from non-use that youre almost certain to fuck it up anyway. Its
from others who find your personality attractive in some way that your best
opportunities with women will tend to pop up either directly or via a fortunate fixup, etc. You need to keep yourself interesting to other people all the time.
Thats why its important to clean out your crazy character habits. Change up, do
something out of your normal disposition once in a while. Surprise people!
Balance is all about finding a happy medium between emotional
quandaries like anger and boredom or independence and loneliness. Between
being Mr. Non-stop Joke-a-Minute or some miserable, humorless prick. If

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youre the kind of guy who is constantly judging everyone around you for
instance, its only a matter of time before you find yourself becoming excessively
concerned that strangers everywhere are doing the same thing to you. It wont
be long before youre fretting over the consequence of every little action that you
take or word you speak until complete social paralysis sets in.

The way to avoid this trap is to become more responsible to

your desires, and less a slave to your fears.
Guys who have ongoing difficulties with women can also have something of
an isolationist personality holding them back. They typically have highly active
minds capable of easily entertaining themselves with technical or academic
pursuits. Guys like this know how to have too much fun inside their own heads
(like me!). While a classic introvert-type mentality is quite normal, many times it
doesnt provide you with a very rich pallette to support ordinary conversation.
Especially when it comes to seduction. Most of the stuff you spend your time
thinking about is boring to most women and because you probably spend more
time thinking rather than doing, you dont have an experience base of adventures
to talk about either. See how the loop closes in on itself, keeping you trapped in
the same old repeating behaviors that get you nowhere?
I know there can be a lot of mental inertia to deal with. If we allow
ourselves to become heavily over-invested in the way in which we behave, and
these habits are closely linked to our sense of self, then it becomes unnerving to
contemplate making radical changes that would threaten to snuff us out (our
precious Ego, I mean).
If youve spun a web of weird behaviors and close-minded world views, it
will ultimately become impossible to escape from them without great distress
when the time ultimately comes to move on to the next phase of your life.
Remember, life is a series of phases that pass away with time whether
we like it or not! People get into trouble because they cling to some phase of
their life theyve fallen in love with long after the time when it shouldve been
chucked. This was a major stumbling block in my own life for decades. I seemed
like I was always 10 years behind where I shouldve been in terms of my
emotional, social and financial development. Ten years!

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I was making mistakes with women at 26 I shouldve already made at 16 if I

wouldve been living my life correctly back then... making career inroads at 40
that shouldve been accomplished at 30, and so on. How humiliating, how
childish! And this was mainly because I would get stuck in a particular phase but
fail to do the work to complete it and move on. My problem was mostly one of
fear of change, but you can just as easily become enamored with some comfy
phase of your life and refuse to give it up. Its like the dude who peaks out in high
school and never wants to grow up and graduate because then he goes back to
being a nobody. But you cant act like a high-schooler forever, and the longer
you try the more of a walking embarrassment you become to yourself. The Ironclad Rule of Living sets a time limit on each and every phase your life including
those that you cling to beyond the point where you shouldve already moved on.
This inertia, no matter its cause, ensures that you will eventually be regarded as a
gentile fool to be pitied or patronized.
And the women will take note. And they will reject accordingly!
This fight for balance by appropriately heeding the call of Time will involve
an internal struggle that might well be tougher than any seduction you could ever
attempt. Mental reframing is a lot like overthrowing a government in terms of
difficulty, and for much the same reason there are a lot of people deeply
invested in perpetuation of the status quo and they plan to fight you to the death
to keep things just the way they are! In a similar fashion, your brain has
fabricated a level of ease with your current emotional/comfort status quo and it
will fight any effort of yours to change anything significant about your world.
This battle is a critical confrontation that you must have with yourself
however, no matter the pain involved. As I mentioned earlier, it may involve
trading-in the monster truck for a used Altima or putting the X-Box on E-Bay if
thats what it takes to pay the bills piling up in your new apartment, but you will
emerge phoenix-like from this battle a better man. Hell, perhaps a Man for the
first time in your life!

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Much of the parental / societal brainwashing that gives us grief later on in

life first begins to creep into our heads when youth places us at a vulnerable
stage in our development at a time when we have few mental defenses
available to protect ourselves, and we are ignorant of the dangers posed by these
external thought crimes. The solutions we develop to mitigate resulting
stressors soon become self-perpetuating and take root deep in our minds. After
repeated exposure to enough put-downs and other assorted mental tortures for
instance, a kind of Stockholm Syndrome takes over wherein we identify with
our captors and take up their cause! What I mean is that, long after the
original offender (parents, classmates, siblings, etc.) are gone and sometimes
even dead, we continue to pay homage to their original fucked-up judgements of
us. This is especially true if the source of the brainwashing was a parent,
because theres a kind of if-I-prove-you-were-right-will-you-love-me-now? sort of
dynamic happening that can torment us for an entire goddamn lifetime.
Youve got to crush this kind of nonsense once and for all by
making a fundamental choice about yourself that simply boils down
to this... am I going to design my consciousness to produce a
reality that gives me the best chance at living a happy and fulfilling
life, or am I going to stay on this hopeless mission to authenticate
the legitimacy of my abuser and their long-dead image of what my
station in life was supposed to be?
Read that 100 times if you have to. You are a unique individual with talents
and powers that were unimagined when you were young, and anyone who
attempted to steal that from you or suppress it was nothing more than a common
criminal, regardless of their relationship to you or what their best intentions
mightve been. Its no more complicated than that. Despite the mega-volumes of
self-help psychology that you can piss all your time and money away studying
endlessly. Im talking about cleaning out the garbage and proudly stepping
forward into the next phase of life like a man, unencumbered by past
disillusionments.
There are times in our lives when we come out of a long dark tunnel and
things finally start hitting on all cylinders for us. We get bigger and stronger,
suddenly finding more athletic power at our fingertips after a youth spent kicked
around as the scrawny weakling or the comical fat kid. We get a rockin career
path going or stumble on some kind of financial break for once.... and now we've
finally got some money to throw around! Until you begin to feel good about

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yourself as a man on a very intimate level like this, its unlikely youll reach a
Masters Level gaming women no matter how many hypnotic tricks you learn.
By welcoming every new phase of your life instead of hiding from it, you
can begin to turn this idea of meeting and seducing women into a fun lifestyle for
yourself that you can embrace with enthusiasm and total clarity, rather than
viewing it as some grueling chore. And thats ultimately how youll make it work
for yourself.

Shove All Your High-Minded Obsessions

And finally, a word about obsessions. The root of many weird-o personality
traits can be traced to some manner of obsession that has pulled you deep into
its own special brand of madness. I hate this shit. Its becoming a global
problem. Heres the bottom line with any kind of personal obsession as far as Im
concerned if you have come to believe in anything to the point that it dominates
your mind so much you feel you have to run around talking about it incessantly,
then somewhere along the way youve allowed yourself to become brainwashed.
Plain and simple. You have surrendered control of your consciousness to some
idea, organization, cause, insane parent, religious ideal, charismatic individual or
other manipulative force that now commands your thinking and rules your soul.
Why you did this to yourself in the first place doesnt matter to me and shouldnt
matter to you either. You just have to fucking stop it. Crush it. Fight back and
reclaim your right to own your own mind. Thats all. Real simple. Heres my own
little personal creed for you when it comes to external entities ruling my Mind.
Feel free to adopt it as your own:

"

I am the single, sole and only source of all my ideas, goals, dreams and
personal philosophies on the Meaning of My Life. No one else can dare to tell
me how to live my life, it just doesnt happen. On my planet, this isnt allowed.
And if those who would enlist me into serving their interests at the expense of my
own dont like it, they can board the next shuttle to Mars and get the fuck off my
planet. Permanently. Got it?

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Take a cue from me and snap out of it right now, today. Give whoever
currently owns your mind the royal flying fuck you... and then stand back and
laugh as they turn pink with rage. I dont care who the fuck they think they are,
how much power they supposedly think they have (I got some sad news for them,
they have none actually), or how compelling their arguments for your continued
allegiance to their cause-idea-religion-philosophy might be. Youre done. Youre
out. Youre returning to the land of the living and embracing the popular culture
so that you can fit in and become normal.
So you can begin to live on your terms, a.k.a., the only terms that should
ever matter to you.

A Realistic Self Image

Another one of the mental house-cleaning tasks I would suggest you
perform somewhere along the line is the cultivation of a realistic self-image.
Problems based on how you imagine that the rest of the world sees you will
manifest themselves into all sorts of odd behaviors and neurotic personality
habits that will seriously limit your social effectiveness. As a general rule, guys
are usually far too hard on themselves when it comes to assessing how they look
physically or are presenting themselves to the world. Theyre the first ones to call
themselves fat or ugly or some other disparaging adjective, and its possible to
take this sort of humility way too far, and that would be the point where it
negatively effects your projection of male power and status.
Just as if its probably not wise to have too high an opinion of yourself that
cant be supported by reality, its equally destructive to view yourself as
permanently residing in the extreme lower end of the scale as well. Far worse,
actually. At least you can fool yourself into taking a few social risks here and
there if youre working with an inflated ego but a deflated one gets you
absolutely nowhere. With women, in the business world, or anywhere else for
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My own self-image sucked for a long time all throughout my 20's and early
30's, and it turned out to be a self-imposed handicap that was needlessly and
tragically borne. I was too short, too ugly, losing my hair, blah-blah. You know
the drill. The constant barrage of self-inflicted mental putdowns weighed down
my confidence to the point of complete social inaction. Thats the hellborn place
where you give up... where you surrender all hope of success and stop making
any further effort because youve established an internal belief that no matter
what you do, various indelible components of your physical / mental make-up will
conspire to destroy your efforts anyway. So why even try? This is a bad place, a
state of hopelessness. It lays down the framework for what psychologists call ISI,
Inadequate Self Image. A fancy clinical way of describing a person whos view of
himself is mis-matched negatively with the way others view him. Too hard on
himself, too critical, too demanding of impossible performance standards, etc.
I personally believe this ISI is a manifestation of a more pervasive form of
self-hatred. ISI contains a component of arrogance as well this notion that I
can hold such high performance standards for myself in terms of looks,
accomplishments and social magnetism that no one, not even myself, can meet
them. Followed to its logical conclusion, this would mean that a lot of other
people also dont make the cut either, but they have the audacity to make
something of themselves anyway by cheating!... by believing themselves to be
better than they actually are. By not allowing themselves to be handcuffed by the
same ultra-high standards that are holding you back.
Thats okay though, because thinking in this manner has the side benefit of
providing a twisted justification for your own self-loathing and thus provides you
with a feeling of false superiority! Youre better than everyone else because
you at least have the nobility to recognize and honor your own inadequacies.
Now you get to hate yourself and every one else too... what a great deal! Isnt it
cool how we can work some dinky little 5% payoff into whatever sort of mental
prison that we create for ourselves? Ya gotta love the human mind... a work in
progress we are indeed. Far from complete.

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Anyway, I was able to eventually bootstrap myself out of this repeating loop
of madness by deciding to substitute self-acceptance for self-castigation. That
was the big mental leap for me this overriding idea that it was okay just to be
me rather than longing to be something I had no hope of ever becoming. I re-set
my targets for personal accomplishment into the range of the possible rather than
the impossible. I decided to open my mental prison cell and give myself parole.
And you can do it too. Were all the same basic arrangement of carbon
atoms after all. Ive identified three steps to make embracing this process for
yourself a painless and straightforward deal, here they are:
1) Change what you can. Do a ruthlessly honest re-assessment of
yourself. One thing you may discover is that your look is way overdue for a
clean-up and style upgrade. Im not going to harp on basics like taking a shower
or figuring out how to unscrew the lid off a bottle of mouthwash... you cant
possibly be that far gone. But if you are, then skate over to
www.scrubmynuts.com and get a clue about personal hygiene, wouldja? To
quote Dean Wormer from the movie Animal House: Fat, drunk and stupid is no
way to go through life, son. To which I would add ...or smelling like a farm
animal.
What most guys will mostly need is an upgrade to their hairstyle and
wardrobe. In a word, make it all current. Burn those shitty department store,
middle-aged-man checkered shirts and get some stylish clothes. Pick up a few
mens magazines like GQ and Playboy and Maxim or whatever and use them for
some starting ideas. Take a woman shopping with you (even your sister if thats
all you can scare up) and let her design a new look for you. Chicks love to blow
an afternoon doing shit like this, their pupils begin to dilate as if they took a
needleful of china white as soon as you pull into the mall parking lot for
christsakes! Just be sure that whatever you end up buying fills these two
requirements: 1) Its something you are comfortable wearing and wont feel like
a fool walking around in (get a casual look and then something more dressy for
going out), and 2) make sure that its age appropriate. Turn that ballcap around
you thirty-something yo-yo, youre not fooling anyone anymore. Liberate that
fucking bald spot! ;-)
The other part of the equation is your head... hairstyle and facial hair
primarily (and maybe also trade in those uncleanable, scratched-up glasses for a
set of contacts or a lazik correction?). Still walking around with that Joe Dirt

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mullet? Naughty naughty, silly boy. A shaved Kojak head will get you farther
nowadays. And that thick black moustache reminds me of the second guy from
the left in the Village People line-up... you know, the one with the chaps and the
ass cutout? Naturally, whatever sort of hirsute surgery you end up doing to
yourself, youll have to take into account your own cultural specifics depending on
what part of the world you happen to be living in. You know what to do. Its
called letting go of the past and getting on with life. Think of it as a
refreshing change of pace for your tired old self. And youll love the sudden
attention youll be getting from ze chicks!
And finally, hit the gym and lose the spare tire. I did it and Im an old fart.
You can too. This makes you feel great along with boosting your testosterone
and sex drive which translates into an aggression with the ladies that they dig
seeing from guys! You wont believe it until you try it. Even if you still have little
stick-man arms and was the guy who spent his entire high school career being
stuffed in lockers, youll look more cut and it will improve the way you carry
yourself. And, as an added benefit, you might not be so afraid to bust some prick
in the chops next time you get in a pissing contest instead of backing down like a
beta-male little girl! Male status is calibrated in such ways, gentlemen.
2) Mask what you cant. Things that really bother you about your
personal appearance like your height, for instance, are physically impossible to
change. So I developed a mental truce with my own limited stature that allowed
me to mostly ignore it. This would be the same with something like the basic
shape of your face or whatever. What else can you do? Realizing that you
cant be everything to everyone is the key. Its like selling any product... this
book for instance. As much as I would like to sell a copy to every human on
earth, I know that it appeals only to a certain niche segment of the market... guys
who are having romantic trouble with women which stems from their inability to
either meet them or coerce them into intimacy beyond the early dating stage. To
most people, this stuff is of no real interest because their romantic situation is
either settled or theyre too young or old to care anymore. Or theyre women and
this book is targeted at men, etc. So I can only write a book, any book, to appeal
to a certain thin slice of humanity. One slice at a time.
What Im trying to say is that nothing and no one has universal appeal, it
just doesnt happen. And its the same with personal appeal too our charm only
works on certain individuals no matter how hard we tap dance for them. We
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are a wide range of body styles, and most people are only attracted to certain
types of them. Some of you guys like your women short and busty for instance,
others go for the tall flat-chested look. Well, women have a similar range of likes
and dislikes in mens bodies as well which means that all types have some
appeal to somebody!
Your task is to dispense with the arrogance of striving for universal appeal
which is an inhuman requirement designed only to cement your feet to the
ground socially as part of your program of self-hatred and realize that you do
appeal to some small (or large) niche of women... whatever you happen to look
like.
Your job is to seek out these individuals... and present them with the
opportunity to get to know you!
3) Develop a Theme for yourself and SELL it wherever you go. Use
your new-found self-acceptance to model a theme for yourself that will appeal to
some niche of women, regardless of who they happen to be. I go into this idea in
more detail in the next section, so Im not going to elaborate on it right now. Just
know that your look ties together with your personality to create a theme for
yourself that works quietly to either intrigue women, or turn them off.

As long as were on this subject of self-image and getting real, allow me to

dramatize the essentials of the whole High Status Male (HSM) vs. Low Status
Male (LSM) thing for you with a quick theoretical example...
Silly Sally is checking out two guys across the room who visually appear
pretty much the same to her, Alpha and Beta. Theres no way she can tell who
has the bigger bank account, the more grandiose accomplishments in life, the
more rockin career path or the better lifestyle to offer her. What Silly needs is a
clue to make this assessment deep inside her little chick brain. Both guys check
her out. Nice ta-tas, they think. Alpha makes eye contact, fires off an easy
smile, and then walks over and says hello and kids around with her a bit. No big
deal... to Alpha. But to Beta such an act is a huge deal. You see, Beta cant
quite bring himself to go after what he desires the same way that Alpha does, so
he loses out quite a bit. But theres more to this story.

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Silly Sally still has no factual information about the qualities of either guy
that I described above, but she now thinks Alphas probably the hotter of the
two, and heres why: the high status male is conditioned to victory in many
aspects of his life and therefore his actions and attitude signals an easy
confidence in taking a risk. Easy confidence.
Since Beta typically has experienced far less success in his efforts, hes
more likely to hang back in the weeds and wait for things to clearly break his way
before taking action. But that doesnt always happen because life refuses to
serve up the goods so easily sometimes. It makes you dig them out for yourself.
Thats just the way it is.
So Betas holding back behavior creates a visible signal that suggests
hes not been very successful at making his own breaks in the past.
But heres the kicker: the reality of Alpha and Betas true situations could
be exactly the opposite of what it appears. Since neither is likely to approach her
open bank-book in hand, Silly has no way of knowing what the score is between
these to for a fact. The only thing she has to go on is a read of Alpha & Beta
based on their outward behavior towards her. Nothing else. Thats why
image and actions need to be managed carefully and not allowed to run wild.
Well get into this idea further in later sections
Innate talents which allow you to simulate Alpha-type behaviors that trigger
attraction in women stem mostly from your own sense of whats possible for you
to realistically accomplish. Women clue in on certain things about you in order to
make a personal judgment of your hotness. These clues take the form of
behaviors in yourself a willingness to make and maintain good clean eyecontact for instance, one dumb joke that you cringe at but she happened to think
was actually funny, even just a desire to play the game and flirt with her can be
enough to set her off... regardless of any clumsy effort on your part. Sometimes
you float the ball up in the air trying to avoid a sack and you get picked off for a
touchdown the other way. Hey, it happens.
But sometimes... one of your own receivers gets himself under it on the fly
and catches all the defenders flat-footed. See ya in the end zone!
Women color their hair, lay on the makeup, pump up their tits with pure
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way we like them. Its all an illusion designed to signal men of their desirability.
We do the same thing, only differently. Guys develop a style and theme and
wear an attitude or an air about them that suggests they are conquerors of life
rather than its victims. See, its all an illusion. Everything we do on both sides of
the ball in this game of romance is a grand illusion. And you can play too!
All you have to do is pull your head out of your ass and get busy creating
an illusion for yourself that most women will likely dig. Get busy.

Dealing With Severe Shyness

This may be a possible side-issue for you that can totally smash all your
social hopes and dreams, so Im going to take a few pages to address it now
even if a major case of shyness is not your particular problem. I know this will be
of help to many of you guys though.
I used to be painfully shy at one point early in my life, so I know what a
crushing burden it can be. Its perfectly natural and normal to sometimes feel a
little bit unsure of how our actions are being observed and possibly judged by
others, but true shyness is a painfully self-focused sensation where you feel as if
you are being exposed to the critical scrutiny and judgement of everyone else
all of the time, relentlessly. Shyness is a cautionary mode we retreat into
whenever we have insufficient data about the individuals surrounding us, or are
overly concerned about how we are appearing to them. This is especially true
when men find themselves in the presence of beautiful, intimidating women.
First, you should understand why you need to make every effort to avoid
acting shy whenever you can, and Im not just talking about trying to pick up
women but everywhere and all the time. The reason why shyness is destructive
to your chances for pursuing social opportunities may seem obvious, but the true
reason may actually surprise you...
Most people simply dont like shy people. Why? Because they will
usually begin to empathize with a shy persons visible discomfort... and then
they will begin to unconsciously mirror it!
See, when you act shy in front of another person your behavior has the
effect of drawing up that persons own innate shyness and bringing it to the
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trigger for other people! And because they get such an unpleasant feeling
whenever theyre around the painfully shy, they would simply rather avoid such
individuals entirely. You mayve thought that shyness was strictly your own
internal problem but this unintentional ability of yours to broadcast your shyness
to others makes it really more like a case of emotional bad breath! Its causing
you to be avoided.
Possibly because of your intense inward focus you never noticed this
phenomenon before, but it is real and can actually be turned to your advantage.
Heres an experiment to prove it: catch a persons eye and immediately do
something such as smile, wink, point at them, salute... whatever. Nine times out
of ten they will instantly -- without even thinking about it -- do the exact same
thing right back at you! Thats mirroring in action. Pretty cool, eh?
Its also possible to use this effect to distract yourself from your own
shyness. Heres how: whenever you encounter someone, instead of being so
self-conscious simply focus all your thoughts on control, but not on controlling
yourself... on controlling them. You can compel someones mood to be bright
and outgoing by modeling that type of behavior for them rather than nudging
them towards discomfort by surrendering to your shyness. Its all up to you
you are in control!
Look, you dont need years of therapy to uncover all the terrible causes of
your shyness. Who cares about the reasons anyway? Its just a repeat behavior
that youve learned to re-loop endlessly in social circumstances, and all you really
need do is replace it with something better.
So why not this?... instead of focusing on your own discomfort, focus on
being the puppetmaster instead!
Whenever you meet a girl who would normally intimidate you for instance,
repeatedly think to yourself ...dont let her go shy, dont let her go shy... keep her
mood upbeat and extroverted... Concern yourself with whats going on in her
head, not yours. Model the emotional states you want reflected back towards
you. Concentrate your energies and actions on deliberately showing off the kind
of easy-going behavior that you would like your puppet to display. One of the big
obstacles to dealing naturally with others is focusing too much attention on how
they are making you feel instead of worrying about how you are making them
feel. Flip the equation around, do it today. Try it.

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This ability this capacity to make others feel good about themselves is
the very definition of charisma. Loved, powerful, important, smart, respected,
valued... people are starved to feel in these ways! Be aware of the influence that
you can have on others. If you can dole out the good vibes they crave in some
small measure, they will follow you around like lost puppies!

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People will go off and gladly die for kings-queens-generals-dictators and so
on, simply because these individuals have a keen understanding of the power
born of creating good feelings in populations of people on a massive scale. Go
read a history book if you dont believe me, its full of examples. One great
example of the power of charisma that comes to mind is former president Bill
Clinton -- his personal charisma and good humor took him right through to the
U.S. Presidency and kept him there for 8 years despite being despised by his
political enemies even to the point of being impeached. Even the chubby interns
couldnt keep their hands off him!

Mr. Charisma
Heres a quick story to help illustrate the power of a solid self-image. I had
a close personal friend in high school who possessed natural charisma in spades.
He was tall and handsome, played football and always had a girlfriend (the girls
loved him!). This was the kind of guy who was in the top clique in high school
and moved around essentially like royalty. He was also the kind of guy who could
have easily busted on the surrounding nerds and no one would have thought it
unusual.
But heres what makes this story cool... he never once acted mean or
demeaning towards anyone. In fact, my friends behavior was just the opposite of
the typical prick who drew a genetic free lunch and cruised through his teen
years. He seemed to make a special effort to reach out and befriend those lower
class citizens. I even saw him jump in and protect some of these nerds when
dudes were ragging them out or trying to make them look like fools in front of
girls. No one messed with my buddy -- he had a fairly advanced belt in Kung Fu

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(hey, it was the big in vogue martial art to know back in the 70's!) and he wasnt
afraid to use it when pressed. The most amazing part is that he never expected
anything in return from these beta males. It was just how he was brought up to
be... a character guy, even as a kid.
Well let me tell you, by senior year this guy oversaw an entire legion of
nerds who wouldve gladly laid down their life for him! Just a simple act of
kindness here and there was enough to build goodwill that would last a lifetime
(and who knows where all those connections might one day lead? Last I heard,
hed left a plum corporate job to partner up with a friend from high school who
was running a multi-million dollar business. One of his nerd buddies you
think?). It will be amazing to see how many people show up at my good friends
funeral someday (hopefully far, far in the future). Youll probably think the King of
Siam himself died!
The point is that anyone can concoct a little bit of this magical stuff for
himself even if youre not star quarterback material. The projection of charisma is
far more a psychological deal than it is dependent upon some physical quality
that you may or may not possess (shit, Hitler was certainly no GQ model!). Just a
little timely friendliness when needed, a sympathetic ear lent here or there and
before long youll have a little following of friends who dig hanging out with you.
And who knows... some of them may even turn out to be mighty cute!

Fear and Pain Control

Courage is doing what you are plain scared to do.
There is no courage without fear.
Eddie Richenbacher, WW I American Ace fighting pilot
150 solo missions, 26 kills
What makes a man a man is not whats between his legs but how he uses
it, and I dont mean sexually. I mean balls... courage. The degree to which you
can become the master of fear and pain in your life will pretty much dictate your
eventual level of social and financial achievement. Theres no easy way around
the supremacy of fear in our lives. If there was, then no one would be afraid of
anything and everyone would be a high achiever and storming along out there
living the Hugh Hefner lifestyle. Im not some wizard who holds the Great Grand
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might help soothe some of your anxieties the next time youve got a shot at
meeting a cute girl. Its all about learning to recognize choice points, and when
its in your best interest to take a punch in the face. I kid you not.

Fear... Its Always Inside Your Armor

Theres an old saying among soldiers that no matter how much body armor
you bolt on theres always one enemy who has the upper hand in any firefight.
Thats because this foe hides inside your armor. The enemy of which I speak of
course, is fear. Fear. Ancient and pre-human... the most powerful of drives,
hardwired directly into the marrow of the brain.
As men, our relationship with our own fear is what sets us apart from one
another. Those who stand toe-to-toe with their fears and accept risks are almost
always the ones that make it into the top 10% of the high status male scale that
I slobber on about relentlessly. Just consider the panoply fears there are to
overcome in life... fear of risking your ego by standing in front of an audience and
speaking... of putting your life savings on the line to start a business... of going for
a job interview or audition for something thats way over your head talent-wise...
of betting all your money on a single stock pick... taking a swipe at a guy whos
wronged you in some way, even though hes stronger and likely to win the fight.
And of course, fear of going up to that foxy girl over there and asking her out for
coffee!
These are the fears that shape our time on earth. To the degree that we
either face them down or run away fashions the template upon which the story of
our life is written.
As you know I get lots of letters from my readers and some of them
incorporate important lessons that I feel should be shared. Heres one that I got
recently from a guy who was rambling on about a particular situation he was
having with a woman in his class at college. He went into elaborate detail about
how he happened to smile at her one day in class, and how she initially returned
his smile, but then seemed to quickly look away and ignore him. This guy
became tormented over the secret meaning that he was convinced this single
brief action on her part mustve held. What sort of judgement had she placed on
his status as a man? The letter went on and on, but there was nothing of note
until I hit the part about two pages in where he mentioned his age. He was 63.
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A guy this old was getting all bent out of shape over the reaction of a girl
that was young enough to be his grand-daughter? A two generation age gap?
So I wrote back and asked him to clarify some things for me, and he sent back a
long sad letter recounting numerous failings that hed had with women all
throughout his life. Heres a sampling of some of the things he wrote:
In junior high, I took a girl to a movie, put my arm around her
eventually, and she grabbed my hand and pulled it over her tit. I
pulled back my hand like her tit was a hot potato! What a fool! I
think it was several days later before I realized what a mistake I'd
made.
I was in a car with another girl a short time later, and we
started getting cozy, but then I patted her rather roughly on the top of
the head. That was the end of any more coziness with that girl!
Later in my twenties, I shared a flat with a married couple.
The man went out of town for a couple weeks, and before he left, he
intimated that I should make myself at home with his wife. She
intimated the same thing. I had been hornier than a hoot owl, but
somehow it never occurred to me to take advantage of that situation.
Maybe it's just as well, because I think those things generally do not
work out in the long run. But that was not my reasoning at the time.
I think I was just trying to keep myself miserable.
Just trying to keep myself miserable? Some more...
In my thirties, I went into a sandwich shop where I saw one of
the most beautiful women working behind the counter. I was feeling
very self-confident that day, and no doubt it showed. She took my
order and asked me, "What's your name?" "Richard," I answered. I
thought of asking her name in return, but I stopped myself.
I couldnt get her out of my head all that week. The next time I
went in there, she held my gaze for an unusually long time. When I
got to the front of the line though, I was too self-conscious to actually
say anything to her, except for what kind of sandwich I wanted. The
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Many of us would quickly forget this sort of nothing incident. Not so with a
man whos trapped in a endless cycle of bum luck though. Obsession with a
missed opportunity still continues to haunt him. It continues:
To bring this issue more up to date, I had another opportunity
not too long ago to flirt with the woman I told you about in my earlier
letter. It would have been very simple and easy to speak to her as
soon as I saw her, since I had something very simple and safe to
say. But I guess I wanted to wait for the perfect opportunity or
something. If I had just spoken to her I would have established
myself as someone that talks to her, and everything would be more
comfortable and I could have taken it from there. A factor is my age
(63), of course. If I were younger, at least I could feel justified in
inviting her to lunch or something. I am mostly interested in just
flirting with her now-- I need some excitement in my life. But I need
some justification, somehow.
And finally, dismally, this observation:
Too bad I waited so many years to begin this journey. I feel
that I am just about ready to make a change in my attitude and
aspect, but how many years do I have left now? Maybe this is the
meaning of the saying, youth is wasted on the young?...
Is there anything more sad than a life of regrets? Really, is there? I
excerpted this gentlemens letter in order to extract the lesson we all need to
have driven our skulls that we cannot remain on a treadmill of fear and expect
our lives to improve significantly beyond the limited range of possibility defined by
those fears. Whats the source of your fear?... Your body (height / weight), your
face, lack of sexual experience, your voice? Maybe your lack of education or
social sophistication? Whatever it is, fear hides out inside your armor where its
perfectly positioned to defeat whatever efforts you make to hide from it. It is the
Master Controller Emotion, the great, silent destroyer of our dreams. In its
service you will fashion a life-long catalogue of regrets that you can review on
your deathbed.
Its disturbing to have such a pornographic spectacle of the power of fear
laid out before us like this, but its also a necessary first step in coming to terms
with it. Trepidation doesnt grab hold of you over-night... its skulking and

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imperceptible, built layer-upon-layer over the course of years on the backs of

accumulated minor and major apprehensions. Eventually it seals your thinking
into a narrow track that keeps you stuck in an endless cycle that is bound to keep
producing the same old results for you.

Self Defeating Behaviors

Fears that are manifest in commonly repeated patterns form part of a larger
psychological phenomenon known as Self Defeating Behaviors. SDBs can
range from something as mundane as stuffing your face with chocolate in
response to some ordinary stress, all the way up to making major life mistakes
such as proposing marriage while youre still starry-eyed in love and then
ending up in divorce court a few years later. Then doing the same thing again
sometimes 2 or 3 times in your life until theres barely enough money left in your
bank account to buy yourself a noose!
I once read a great book on SDBs that was rather complicated and filled
with all sorts of diagrams and charts, but the key principle can be stated quite
simply: an SDB runs in a loop from some triggering stimulus to the actual selfdefeating behavior, and then repeats itself whenever that triggering stimulus
appears again. The beginning of that process, however, always includes a
hidden choice point that would allow the person to select a different behavior
and break this loop... if only they were aware that an option existed. Its their lack
of awareness (that word again...) of this choice point which keeps them running
the same loop over and over again. There doesnt even have to be anything all
that compelling about the behavior itself, the problem is in the damn thoughtless
re-looping.
Heres how a Self Defeating Behavior operates:
TRIGGERING STIMULUS ( *CHOICE POINT* )
SAFE ESCAPE BEHAVIOR
REGRET -- DISGUST -- SADNESS
AWAIT THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE STIMULUS
RINSE & REPEAT ALL OVER AGAIN
Lets take a look at the #1 fear-producing event that most of you guys
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Maybe the first time you tried to pick up a girl things didnt go so well for
whatever reason and so you learned to be a little bit afraid of it. This is the
seminal event that will now act as a template for all subsequent triggering of this
particular stimulus. The next time a similar opportunity occurred, you probably
turtled-up and remained silent in order to protect your ego from having to endure
the same kind of embarrassment that you first suffered (safe, escape behavior).
But this inaction leads to failure... and so then you spend the rest of the day
mentally berating yourself (sadness, regret), possibly to the point of having to
drink or pop drugs in order to free yourself from the pain.
When future chances appear you learn to fire off the same ego-protective
loop over again because its become comfortable and familiar. The problem is
that you will run this pattern without even thinking about it (unconsciously) and
thats when it becomes locked-into your head. The SDB has created the false
illusion that a different choice is not available to you. And its this illusion that is
the source of the SDBs long term, deadly power. Years later, you may find
yourself running that same old turtling-up routine over and over again whenever
you see any available-looking cute girl... without even considering any other
available option! Once the SDB has masked your apparent options, you begin to
feel helplessly trapped and you can quickly sink into a complete depression. At
this point you will usually give up and just accept your fate.
There is a way out. The key moment of any SDB happens with the
appearance of the triggering stimulus (stressor), announcing the start of another
loop. Its here that you need to be aware that a choice is available to you that
youre looking at a fork in the road and not a closed track. All the power to
break the SDB lies in your awareness that this choice point exists. The
different path may turn out to be an improvement, or maybe not. Not important.
It is the act of selecting a new option that will finally begin to destroy this
repeating behavior. Its like a movie on DVD where you can select an alternate
ending if you dont like the one you saw at the theater. The presentation of an
option gets the wheels inside your head turning in a new fashion and this can
quickly defeat an intractable fear that youve always been living with. Its time to
select a new ending for yourself!
You dont have to tackle a major phobia right off the bat either... start small,
get the hang of becoming aware of some minor SDB thats been troubling you.
The main thing is developing your awareness. In the heat of the moment, when
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have to recognize that a moment of choice is at hand... stop and contemplate a

different choice. Chew a stick of gum instead. Go splash cold water on your
face. The replacement behavior is unimportant as long as it leads to a different
sort of result than usual donut chomping (although switching from cream to jelly
wasnt exactly what I had in mind...) You get the idea..
Probably the most difficult thing to master is cultivating an awareness to
change course when youre in the grip of whatever stressor usually triggers the
robotic SDB in you. This is where you must learn to fight off bad emotions
instead of submitting to them. Keep practicing, make a chart or something to
help remind you of what to do and keep a log of your results. This will make you
aware and keep you motivated as you review your progress and slowly begin to
see the successes beginning to outnumber the failures.
This is how you massage an SDB into submission... a little at a time using
awareness and an open mind. And since most SDBs have some component
of fear working at their core, learning this technique is an effective way to wrestle
down all your worst fears one by one. I know this can seem like a daunting task
for some of you, but remember that knowing when its better to just finally hang
yourself out there and take a risk is one of the central challenges to being a man.
It can even be transformational.

And Then Theres Pain...

As far back as anthropologists have peered into human history, theyve
found one disturbingly universal behavior that transcends both society and race...
warfare. War is often described in Darwinian terms as the inevitable
consequence of male aggression. But who can blame us? Males have evolved
to possess strong appetites for power, because extraordinary power has always
gone hand-in-hand with extraordinary reproductive success.
Even today, studies of very primitive societies such as the Yanomamo, a
tribe widely scattered across the Amazon, contain examples of these codes of
corporal conduct in action. Yanomamo men from competing villages engage in
protracted Hatfield-and-McCoy-type feuds that go on for years. And these are
not just playful demonstrations either... these fights are characterized by
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Like many tribal societies, the Yanomamo are polygamous and take
multiple wives. Researchers have noted that the most celebrated warriors among
these people have twice as many wives and three times as many children as their
lesser fellow non-fighters. Now thats reproductive success!
But now for the other more interesting half of the story... Historians
estimate that while women have accounted for fewer than one percent of the
people who have actually fought in wars, they have done their part to facilitate the
carnage by favoring warriors as preferred mates, while shunning the cowards
and losers. So if men have been brutes historically, women share equal blame
for rewarding their combative behaviors. During World War 1 for instance,
women in Britain and the United States were handing out white feathers on street
corners to men not wearing a uniform actually shaming them for avoiding
military service! How are we not supposed to want to show off our fighting skills
for them with this sort of punitive treatment as the price of failure?
Anyway, as a result of our pan-generational lust for combat and war,
human societies have placed a high value on pain-tolerance in their young males.
They understood that men who accepted physical pain could demonstrate
fearsome courage in battle... and that these men were therefore likely to be great
protectors of the women and children. Protection has always been one of the
principle duties of men throughout the ages. In antiquated times, males
submitted themselves to painful experiences such as ritual scarring and penis
piercings (ouch!) to announce their bravery and entry into a fighting culture.
Today, many organizations from college fraternities to the military still engage in
hazing rituals that are little more than watered-down versions of the same
concept.
The idea underlying any sort of ritual training that seeks to expose
someone to incrementally greater levels of fear and pain is to make it routine for
them. You have to know fear, you have to know pain, because it is from this
knowledge that you learn how to manage it within your own mind. In egghead
psychological terms this is called desensitization. Ducking pain and fear
produces the opposite sort of guy, one who spends much of his mental energy
worrying about how to zig-zag his way through life while experiencing as little of it
as possible.
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I spent a fair amount of my own youth ducking pain as well, and the day I
finally decided to accept some was transformational for me. When I say I ducked
pain this doesnt mean that I hid in my house and refused to ever come out and
play. On the contrary, I was active in many different sports and took my share of
licks and lumps. If youve ever been hit with a hockey puck twice in the same
spot within a couple of minutes, then you my friend, know pain! I also nearly
broke my foot playing basketball, and I cant even begin to remember all the
sandlot football injuries incurred by playing with no equipment besides the football
itself.
The point is, despite all this mayhem there was one kind of pain that I was
sure I couldnt take, and that was a good ass-whipping in a fist fight. For some
reason I was deadly scared of it, and because of that irrational fear, I backed
down from several encounters with various pricks and bullies that Id crossed
paths with during my teen years. I was a big pussy.
Evading this kind of physical pain began to create a different sort of
distress in me that Id never imagined however... psychological anguish.
Taking the form of what I called post-pussy-out rage fantasies.
It worked something like this: after every incident where I ended up fasttalking my ass out of trouble rather than fighting my way out like I shouldve, I
would spend hours walking around in circles imagining all the elaborate ways that
I would like to kill the bastard with a crowbar, or somehow humiliate the guy or
whatever. And these revenge fantasies would go on and on, sometimes for
weeks afterwards... popping up at night sometimes when I couldnt sleep. These
rage fantasys eventually grew into a genuine burden stacking up from the very
first time Id backed down from a fight in 6th grade, right up through my
sophomore year in high school... a span of about 5 years. And at this age, five
years can be an eternity.
Finally, one day I said fuck it and decided that it would probably be less
painful over the long haul to just take a goddamn punch in the face next time and
be done with it!
My chance came a few weeks later outside the school locker room when
this prick whod crossed my path before started up with his bullshit. Somehow I
kept reminding myself that it would just be easier to fight this guy now and take
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his face and told him to fuck off and he was choking me against the wall a second
later. I kneed him in the stomach to get him off me and in a blind fury traded a
few wild punches with him before a teacher came out of nowhere and broke us
up. He shoved us both off in opposite directions and told us to get back to our
next class.
It wasnt until a half hour later that I noticed I had cut my hand somehow I
didnt realize that when youre jacked on adrenaline in a fight you dont even feel
small amounts of pain like that. Ha! I had imagined it would be worse, far worse.
Shit, playing street hockey was far more painful! The next day I was worried that
this guy would jump me with some of his buddies, but that didnt happen. I
actually saw him about a week later in the hall. We sort of just eyed each other
up and said nothing, and that was it. Not only was it a relief, it was downright
amazing that I felt no fear of this guy any longer! It was just... gone, like it never
existed. I think I walked around in a daze for the rest of that afternoon, trying to
make sense of everything.
And then something else occurred to me not once since our altercation
had I entertained a single rage fantasy about mutilating this guys face! My
chicken-out SDB episodes normally went: challenge > flee > rage fantasies.
Now it was more like: challenge > fight > peace!

Youve Got To Stake Out Your Spot on the Male Scale

As far as women see it, your status is mostly determined by your everyday
relationships with other men, thats why they like to observe the behavior of guys
in groups. Lots of clues in there as to whos hot or not. When youre young, male
status is mainly defined by your physical or sparring-type relationships with
other guys... as few of us have much of anything else going on in our lives yet.
As you grow older status will have more to do with things like money, societal
authority, life accomplishments and so forth but I tend to believe that it all
begins with these first attempts to express an innate urge to find at least one guy
to lord it over somehow. How successfully you negotiate your status in a physical
sense during your adolescence and early adult years will project out somehow
into better things later on. Just my own theory.
These first baby steps amount to challenging your way into the pack, and
they evolve into more sophisticated strategies to bolster your success as you
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important to you. Again, Im not telling you its necessary to become some kind of
bully or act like a prick, Im saying that its how you respond to these types of
challenges directed towards you that make all the difference. It is within this
crucible that the deepest sense of your birthright as a man takes shape. Once
you grasp that, theres no going back.
Anyway, heres my big discovery... not only is standing up for yourself and
fighting (or even posturing to fight) less physically painful or dangerous than Id
imagined, its essential to your well-being as a man! Believe it or not, you will
experience a boost in your self-esteem even when you lose a fight. Any outcome
short of death is better than the wrenching dismemberment of spirit that an act
of cowardice produces. Backing down from a challenge to your manhood is
the absolute worst thing you can ever do to yourself! These highly toxic
memories stack up, linger a very long time, and will do lasting damage to your
spirit. They make an indelible mark on your unconscious and will eventually put
you in your place somewhere way down the status scale. If youre already in
this hellish place right now, then get your head wrapped around this idea good
and tight and use it as motivation to draw up a plan to pull yourself up a few
notches.

#
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Make sure that these steps, whatever they may be, are realistic things that
you can actually do not stupid shit like punch the boss in the face and quit.
Youre not going to do that. I used to think this way too, and heres the irony...
when you actually get to a point in your life where you could really do this without
any real economic consequence, you wont want to anymore. Experiencing male
status at a level that you find personally satisfying will take the sword from your
hand. All that rage is the burden of the low status male while releasing yourself
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elevate your standing in the eyes of women.

The benefits became obvious to me almost immediately in the form of the
respect I sensed quietly coming from others, eventually including the bully
himself! We became passable friends for the rest of my high school days, even
joking about our fight now and then. More importantly, I was never picked on
again from that moment on probably because word spread that I would fight
back. It was evident that bullies usually just follow the path of least resistance
when choosing their targets. Why risk a black eye messing around with Nerd A
(whos shown a willingness to fight back) when Nerd B will just run away crying?
Bullies will relentlessly torment those fools who wont stand up for themselves,
and theyll do it without mercy. Man, I saw this in action all throughout high
school.
Your ability to take a punch might be one of the first stepping stones youll
need to negotiate as you begin your climb up the ladder of male status. It is
from pain tolerance that you will learn to draw the courage to stand up and
compete against other men. And dont discount the added benefit of trading in
your rage fantasies for knowing that youve finally got some balls for a change.
This stuff cant be measured, but its real.
Joy
The things we spoke of earlier... self reliance, emotional balance and self
image will flourish in the fertile soil that you lay down here.

Sexual Confidence
As far as men are concerned, sexual confidence is basically all about
embracing your birthright of pleasure and allowing yourself the freedom to
experience mucho good vibes with the female of the species to whatever degree
suits you... unliberated joy that must be welcomed without guilt, shame or
inhibition.
One of the biggest obstacles to achieving such a fulfilling sex life is being
held back by a body image issue that you somehow have come to view with
shame. Shame, as I discussed extensively in my first book, is a BIG killer of all
things good in life. And a lot of people have a lot of shame attached to them, and
especially to their sexuality. No mystery there... via the mechanisms of religion,
popular culture and even codified law, society has historically used sexual shame
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believe to be the greater good. This might be acceptable to some extent in order
to control the really dark nature of some individuals, but remember that there is a
price to pay for this kind of domestication. And sometimes the price can be the
ability to enjoy your erotic ride here on earth to the extent that you should be able.
It can be an informative exercise to do a complete self assessment once in
a while by standing naked before a mirror and confronting the reality of the
physical impression you make on women. Try to remain objective and free of the
ususal illusions. If youre feeling disgusted and ashamed by the grotesque thing
looking back at you, then resolve to get real about fitness. Height is impossible to
alter for instance, but a fat gut isnt. Hit the gym or start running, and stick to it.
A bad scar?... consider a tattoo to cover it. Bad skin?... see a
dermatologist, mine got rid of my Rosacea and my Rudolph the red nose. They
can also quickly freeze off moles and crap like that with a little liquid nitrogen. Its
fun. Gorilla boy?... buy a body trimmer ($20 bucks) or get it lasered off. Do
something about your back and shoulders especially because a lot of women are
grossed out by too much fur in these particular spots. Think your friends are
likely to consider you gay? So whens the last time they helped you get laid?
Teeth like grandpa McCoy?... hit the dentist (and it may cost you if youve
neglected them for long). Wardrobe resembling something from an old episode
of Green Acres?... upgrade! Looking like Teddy Kazinski right after they pulled
him out of the woods?... get a real hairstyle. And lose the wildman beard while
youre at it. Incidentally, beards are a form of psychological mask guys who are
ashamed to show their face tend to wear them (I wore one for 16 years
throughout my 20's and 30's, and I know Im nuts. So there.) Perhaps thats why
many religions require them for male devotees as a sign of humility before God
flawed by sin, I am not worthy to have my face seen, etc.
The idea is to make these things into as much of a non-issue as you
possibly can, then youll be on your way to freedom from these various body
image problems.
I believe that another little recognized aspect of sexual confidence is
humor. Humor and eroticism are linked in many exciting ways. Im talking about
developing a lightheartedness in your style that spills over into your sex life
creatively. Women love the light-hearted approach in bed! It draws them in a
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teasing, making up kooky new positions, exploring sexy new fantasies, etc. And
doing all this while being talkative and expressive at all times! Verbalization is a
big deal, one that well explore completely in the final section of this book.
For now, especially if youve recently become lovers, youll want to keep
the titillating surprises coming in a steady stream. Thrill her with provocative emails, phone calls or text messages throughout the day, or a little nasty talk
whispered in public places, etc. Mental foreplay gets the erotic wheels turning in
her head and creates delightful anticipation. Become skilled at teasing the onset
of sexual foreplay, and then break it off... frustrate her a bit. Never let her feel too
sure of what youre about to do next. Go ahead and let the fantasies flow,
express your desire for her often... make her feel as if she alone possesses a
unique ability to please you. Women go crazy when they get this sense of a guy
being so deeply hooked into them. But be sure to do everything in a playful
manner, never with malice.
For me boredom is an absolute passion killer and the number one
relationship crime. Once I get bored, Im out of there... and it takes a woman who
reacts favorably to my active imagination to prevent that from happening. Set
your own standards for what you require from a sexual relationship and only veer
from them if you feel shes special in some strange way that youve simply got to
experience.
Well delve into all sorts of specifics and techniques in that last section on
Her Sexual Enchantment, but for now I just wanted to plant the first seeds of my
philosophy in your mind. Just remember that anxiety is the spawn of a humorless
approach to life, and it makes Jack a dull boy in bed. Dont get stuck in this trap
lighten up and embrace the freedom to design your sex life the way that you want
it to be.

Financial Sanity
You might wonder what the hell this topic has to do with meeting women,
and Ill tell you that it has a lot because your financial situation establishes a
platform from which you are either able to play this game at a high level and
make it fun for yourself or not. How you manage the money in your life sets the
thermostat position of your male status more than any other factor, with the
possible exception of raw talent or celebrity (which usually translate into a high
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lighting your cigars with $100 bills in order to score with women, youre not going
to get very far taking them out on dates to McDonalds either.
Theres no getting around the fact that money is important to a man and
will affect all your relations with women one way or another. Problems with
personal finances can often be traced to fundamental lifelong misconceptions.
People get spoon-fed all sorts of weird ideas about money as they grow up... i.e.
that money is evil, it must be hoarded because the source from which it flows
can never be trusted, that too much of it brings you bad luck, etc.
These horseshit ideas can take root and become financially disabling for
you because they tend to make you close-minded and thus prevent you from
seizing opportunities or taking the reasonable risks necessary to get ahead. Its
funny how making money is similar to meeting women in that timing can be
everything windows of opportunity can pop open suddenly and then slam shut
just as fast. Believing non-sensical myths about money can put you so far behind
the rest of the pack that you can spend an entire lifetime trying to catch up.

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The best attitude to have about money is one that seeks a balance
between being a no-life workaholic, and a penny-pinching cheapskate. Neither
extreme will get it done for you in the long run. Having money takes the edge
off your existence simply because you dont sweat the small stuff as much.
You can relax and have a good time, and more importantly, show any woman that
youre trying to impress a good time!
Having a bit of cash to throw around is especially important if youre an
older guy whos trying to work down the age ladder into the 20's and 30's. Lets
face it, you cant keep it as high and hard as Backward Baseball Cap Bobby can
any more, so you need to have something else to tempt her away from him. Im
not advocating you toss the loot around obscenely, as that will only get you
branded as an asshole as well, but you need to give her a sense that money just

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simply isnt that big an issue with you. Youre comfortable, the expense of things
youd like to do with her doesnt seem to matter, so lets have some fun baby! A
weekend in Vegas or Key West?... pack your bags sweetheart, were outta here!
Like that. You can still be prudent, but money shouldnt be a factor that flat out
blocks you from doing anything reasonable that you want to do with a woman.
Again, I realize that a lot of you guys who are reading this are young and
still in college and totally broke and thats cool. But this should serve as a clear
reminder of why you need to hold your nose firmly to the grindstone and keep
chasing after that degree. Then to start tearing it up once you get yourself onto a
decent career track after school. Take some time to really think about what you
love to do, and then go after it hard.
Heres my sage advice for what its worth: theres nothing worse than the
slow death of dragging your ass up for a job that you hate... with the possible
exception of not even having the career mobility to transfer sideways away from
some prick boss whos making you crazy! I tell you this from brutal personal
experience. Create a nest egg of some size and use it to support a risky career
move that you may need to take in order to save your sanity at some point.
Always keep a 401k you can put it in a suitcase and take it with you when the
bullshit runs too deep.
Save money? Why go through all this trouble? Because once
management understands that you arent enslaved to them their abuse has limits
which you can establish! Its known as having fuck you money. Whatever you
do, dont get yourself trapped into a situation where they know they have you by
the balls because you cant afford to miss a single paycheck. This kind of virtual
economic slavery is the bane of the poorly skilled and under-educated, so
beware!
If youre already trapped in a dead end job and too old to go back to
school, then why not make some extra money on the internet? Lots of people
dish out a living swapping junk on E-Bay nowadays. Why not you? I have a
buddy who makes probably twice what I do selling these books by swapping
around old computer motherboards and monitors and what not. Even my brother
has made a few bucks for himself on E-Bay and this low-tech Luddite still
prefers to light the fireplace by sparking two flints together. (I can now state with
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I think the biggest reason guys end up broke all throughout their lives is
basically just lack of focus they never put any real effort into setting
themselves up to make serious money. They just get a job, work hard and then
other things become more important. Usually a family or an obsessive hobby
(watching tv, sports, etc.) or some other distraction. They simply dont put much
thought into the big picture of their long term finances, but instead get caught up
sliding by from one paycheck to the next. Run up some debt from a mortgage,
car payments and credit cards... and before you know it youre a fat hamster on a
treadmill to nowhere.
This is what I mean by not having any long term focus failing to sit down
at a young enough age before you get too trapped by circumstances and figure
out how youre going to tackle the problem of making a comfortable living plus.
The plus involves creating that reserve in your bank account so you can drop
some coin in big bursts at a moments notice when something unexpected (like a
hot chick that needs a good impressing!) suddenly pops into your life. Im not
saying that youre not working hard out there right now, most guys work damn
hard but heres a little secret I wish someone had told me when I was 21... you
dont get anywhere in life by merely working hard, you have to work smart.
When I talk about working smart, I mean getting involved in something that
has potential to grow and move you upward as the years fly by. Many, many jobs
and careers out there are just basically dead ends financially. You work your ass
off, put in the years and then you just hit a plateau beyond which its impossible to
ascend. Usually its the type of work that has a natural hard ceiling for whatever
reason. I worked like a dog all my life and ended up with jack shit to show for it
until I hit on this little internet / writing business. The problem was that I
exchanged another factor, in my case a certain amount of autonomy, for the
capability of making a steadily increasing amount of money throughout my
career. This meant that as the years crept by and my salary failed to keep up
with inflation (even just the little 2-3% we have here in the U.S.) I kept getting
poorer and poorer. Before long I was living down near the ratty bottom edge of
the middle class, and the stench was rising all around me!
The way to stay ahead of all this is to step back and keep re-evaluating
your financial situation from time to time all throughout your life. You need to
have the fortitude to make the necessary moves, sometimes bold moves, when
you decide that its time to change course. This is where the sanity part comes
into play... dont let fear of taking a risk make you financially insane.

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Alright then, two main thoughts before we move on...

1) Chronic money problems will weigh you down like a millstone around
your neck and make themselves visible in your shitty attitude. Being broke will
turn you into a full-time scowling prick, bitching and complaining about everything
in sight... politics, the dumb assholes at work, the weather or whatever.
If you walk around like a miserable S.O.B. all day long because your shitty
job has left you scuttled in the financial gutter, you shouldnt be expecting very
manyhello there silent signals from women either. Potential meeting
opportunities happen bang-bang in just a few seconds and they are gone just as
fast. Since being grumpy and nasty is generally a big turn-off to women, by the
time you course correct shell have already registered your piss-poor attitude as a
rejection and vanished. Thats why your first natural impression cant be this
negative. Yeah its cool to be a little aloof, but not miserable and nasty.
So if youre one of these grumps who shuffles around dressed like a
ragman and despising everybody you encounter by default, you wont be giving
yourself much of a chance with most women beyond the lonely drunken fat-asses
that litter the bars at closing time. Look, Im getting up in your grill a little bit here
to show you that theres a better way to play this game of life. Try to meet me
halfway at least.
2) The only major mindset upgrade thats really necessary in order to
turn your financial life around can be summed up in a single word: optimism.
Optimism is the anticipation or expectation of future happiness without any clear
evidence available for it yet. All good things flow from having an optimistic
attitude. Youve got to believe in something that you desire and work towards it
for a certain amount of time before you can realize it. And what keeps you going
during that unknown time lag (which could be weeks, months or even years)
between the moment you set out to achieve some goal and its actual coming to
pass? Optimism!
Optimism is the fuel that powers people who will achieve substantial things
in their life. If you want to develop a naturally attractive, confident air that doesnt
require acting or fakery, then get to work and make something of yourself. Get a
better job, start a business, go back to school... do whatever it takes to get
yourself free of the rut you may currently find yourself wallowing in. In the land of
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into existence, or were lucky enough to be connected to somebody on the

inside. Or they were born with natural talents and just fell into
money/love/sex/good times without even trying. The pessimistic dont see that
most of these people worked diligently (spelled: smart!), or that they had to sweat
out some risky venture before they could enjoy those glittering rewards everyone
else is now jealous of. Few people walk into it without a fight.
And what carried them through from point A (idea) to point B (success)
when things looked scary and uncertain? Most likely it was their optimism.

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(
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Its like me and these books I write. This book youre reading
took me almost three years to write, but its not a good example of
blind optimism because the success of my first book Without
Embarrassment pretty much guaranteed that I would make a few
sales of this one. After all, I had already established a solid market
and even created a small fan base or following (my thanks to you all
;-).
It was the writing of my first book Without Embarrassment that is the true
example of optimism in action. It took me two years to write that book, and all the
while I had no idea if Id ever be able to sell a single copy. Was there even a
market for this type of subject? Enough to make any money? Would an e-book
download work technically? Would I get bombed with refund requests? Would
people be willing to pay with a credit card on the internet? Would I need to
translate the book into Chinese or something?
Mind you all this was going on in 1999, virtually the dark ages of the
internet, and many of the technical support systems that you and I take for
granted -- third party credit card processing, broadband access speeds, web
page writers, PDF document delivery and all the rest of it, either didnt exist yet or
was still in its infancy and loaded with bugs. Hell, back then I couldnt even keep
my old Netcom dial-up connection from disconnecting on its own whenever it
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None of these questions could be answered before the book was actually
published so there was no effective way to simulate what would happen before
that moment. Therefore I had to invest the time and effort and write that book on
faith, and I had to do a good job of it because I knew the book would have to sell
itself again a second time once the reader actually dug into it. If Id have rushed
some shitty 10,000 word term paper to market just to find out if it would sell then
I would probably die under a deluge of refunds and my credibility would be ruined
for any future books. This first effort had to be good, and that meant it would
have to take time to produce.
So I had to stay at it and keep re-drafting everything seven times to make
Without Embarrassment as good as I possibly could. What kept me going during
all that time? Optimism! When youre out there in the unknown vacuum with no
guideposts theres nothing else to power you along other than optimism or faith or
whatever you want to call it. Youve first got to believe something is possible in
the absence of any evidence to support it whether its making money or
meeting women in order to make it become real in your life.
Alright, sermon over.

A Standard Mate Hunting Routine

You will experience stretches of time in your life when you are alone and
stuck between relationships. Women depend on their girlfriends to comfort them
and set them up with dates and get them back in the game after a broken heart.
Are your dumb-ass buddies likely to help you out in a similar fashion? Get real.
As a man, you have to depend on yourself to manage your own emotional and
romantic life, and be able to bootstrap yourself back onto the playing field when
necessary.
For that you need to develop a routine that you can use to score yourself a
new girlfriend after youve lost one... a standard mate-hunting routine that you
can pull out of the tool shed whenever you need it. Such skills will keep you from
falling into long periods of isolation, which arent necessarily bad in themselves,
unless they grow so long that you begin to lose your edge from having been away
from pussy too long. Women can sense it when youve been out of circulation for
any great length of time, and this does not usually help your chances with them,
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thats why you bought this book, I dont know. If so, the sections coming up will
give you loads of ideas to get you off the dime and socially involved again.
Just remember that getting back on the romantic horse is similar to
breaking a cold streak in baseball it never ends by just suddenly smashing one
out of the park and knocking in two runs. You take the pitcher to a 3-2 count,
fight off three fouls, then finally hit a grounder to the shortstop who bobbles the
ball which barely allows you make it to first. But youre on base... finally! Next
time up you casually knock a double into left field on the first pitch like some .380
golden boy and ta-da... the slump is over!
Thats how it goes sometimes when trying to break out of a cold streak with
women as well. You have to fight like hell just to get that lousy first date with
some frumpy dog, then it begins to get easier once you get some stink back on
your hang-low again.
I guess the point Im trying to make in my usual roundabout way is that you
need to re-frame the whole notion of meeting women as something other than
absolute life-or-death for yourself. As men, we tend to put enormous weight on
this subject and way too much pressure on ourselves to make every aspect of it
work perfectly. It might be time to view scoring women more like anything else
that you somehow figured-out how to do for yourself. Important sure but you
cant let it threaten to crush you every time things dont go down well. Packing
your parachute before a jump... now theres a skill youd better get perfect each
and every time! This stuff should be approached more in the spirit of play.

So what if after reading through this gauntlet of necessary skills you are
now discouraged to discover that you need extensive work in more than one of
these areas, what to do? Well dont panic and get overwhelmed you just need
to split the larger task up into smaller chunks and focus on one aspect at a time.
Trying to completely re-structure your entire life all at once can be a major
project, and your enthusiasm for it will certainly bounce up and down along the
way. Learn to take time-outs for yourself whenever you get fed up with your
progress or lack of it, and come back when you start to feel more enthusiastic
about things again. Its okay to move along in fit and starts but the absolute
most important thing to remember is this: dont ever give up! Its not the amount
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forward. As long as youre getting somewhere with your life at any speed, youll
get wherever youre going eventually.
And please enjoy the ride my friend, we only get one.

Developing An Edge For Yourself

In order to effectively come across as a man that a woman might want to
take a romantic interest in, I believe that a guy needs to have a little bit of an
edge for himself. An edge comes from having some assemblage of emotions
working you over... maybe some kind of subtle anxiety about some aspect of your
current life situation or whatever. It doesnt really matter what exactly causes you
to possess this emotional edge, only that it exists and is visible in some way
just beneath the surface of your character.
The opposite of having an edge is being over-controlled and seeming to
have every little aspect of your world in absolute perfect order. Kind of like the
nuns in grammar school who used to have everything so neatly and perfectly
lined up on their desk. All Ts crossed and is dotted. People this together are
more than a little bit unnerving... just how exactly are you supposed to fit into their
neat and tidy life? Will you ever be able to match up to their frighteningly high
standards? Yikes! As a guy, you dont ever want to come across as this much of
a poindexter stiff.
A guys edge is an announcement that he doesnt live in a safe and secure
little bubble of his own careful design... it says that hes out there living life,
taking chances, and taking his lumps along the way. This kind of restless energy
is sexy to women because they are all about emotions and they love to see
emotions at play in the men who fascinate them! Of course, they dont expect
you to act like a woman and express your emotions all silly-nilly like they do.
Women want to see you stoically bearing up under whatever pressures life has
created for you. They love it! Thats why bikers and snowboarders and stage
performers are more enticing to them than geeks who sit around wrapped up in
their safe little (boring) nerd-worlds.
Having an edge creates an interest in you as an unknown entity
whenever you first meet a woman. She can connect with a guy whos bristling
with barely-controlled emotional energy identify with his pain-anxiety-feardiscomfort or whatever. This is where that first spark of chemistry is also likely

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to occur... and for many women, chemical connection is everything. If they dont
catch this spark right away, youll have little chance getting onto their radar.
You may be thinking now that what Im telling you is in direct conflict with
the ideas I laid out earlier concerning emotional balance. No, this is just an
example of that fine line Im always talking about... while it may be valuable to be
balanced for all the positive effects it has on your life, its best to seem a little less
so when it comes to making an effective impression on women. Get it?
A perfect example of what Im talking about is how recently divorced guys
seem to do better at scoring a new girlfriend than a lot of single guys can
manage, even though theyre only just re-introducing themselves to the dating
game again. Thats because the emotional turmoil resulting from a guys recent
breakup gives him that sexy, vulnerable edge. It also works to overcome the very
same network of fears that usually stops the fretful, overthinking single guy dead
in his tracks. Men in this agitated frame of mind have an emotional pressure on
them that forces them to take chances with women, because they are suddenly
free to experience first and think second. A greater desire to fill an empty void
in their life overwhelms any fear of rejection which they may have.
So dont be ashamed to let some of your own emotional edge show off to
women as well. Its what theyre looking for!

Crackpots and First Impressions

Before we move onto examining the female psyche in elaborate detail, take
this fun little test first. Read the following statements and see if you can guess
what their connection is:
I saw you. You know I saw you somewhere,
didnt I? Didnt I see you somewhere else or something
once? It was in county lockup, right?
I hope the rain stops soon, I have to go to the
bank and cash my disability check today. I have a
mental disability you know...
Your nose is really red. Did you know that? I
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pulled all my hair out scratching it.

Yeah hi... ya know, Id like to take that (insert
favorite dirtbag politicians name here) and put a bullet
in his fuckin head, ya know what I mean?
Tick, tick, tick... give up? Well, I suppose it wasnt really a fair contest, but
what the hell... Im not exactly Alex Trebek over here either. Anyway heres the
answer: each one of these statements was some perfect strangers initial
response to my casual hello thoughtlessly tossed their way by me. I swear its
true... the return comment I received from a simple hello in some public setting
like an elevator or at restaurant counter was to have that person launch straight
into a delusional rant that immediately painted him as a crackpot!
If you dont think it matters what your first words to people are, youre
wrong. And if you engage in this sort of idiotic behavior yourself, then youre
probably an established social outcast by now and in need of serious
rehabilitation that extends far beyond the scope of this book... but Ill try to kick
the process off for you anyway. Here we go... first, understand this fundamental
fact of life:
You are simultaneous communicating with other people on two
different levels all of the time the visible level with the actual words
that you use, and the invisible level where what you choose to talk
about speaks volumes about the sort of person you are.
Conversational topic selection is an illuminating clue about whats going on
inside your head. In both the game of seduction and the game of life as well, the
first impressions we make on other people are what make or break us socially.
We tend to capture an immediate read of people and then slot them quickly into
one of two categories: A) those who seem somewhat similar to ourselves and
who were likely to find some level of rapport with, and B) those people who
appear to be so far away from our own values and intellect level that wed just
as soon get away from them as fast as possible.
The good or bad thing about first impressions depending on how you look
at them is that they take root immediately and tend to be very difficult to dislodge.
Good impressions are great but if you make a lousy first impression you will have
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themselves on being able to figure you out in a snap. They are heavily invested
in their own clever instincts and are reluctant to give them up. You will be faced
with a real sales job, and probably one that will extend over several subsequent
encounters, in order to get someone to change their mind about you if they
happened to have gotten the wrong idea that first time around.
If you enjoy being weird you might think this is all comical bullshit, but if
youre starting off from a socially inept posture you are way behind the curve and
are sabotaging your chances. Youve got to respect social conventions even if
you dont approve of them. Your connection to whatever constitutes your
cultures normal convention is a marker of your social intelligence. Sociability
in general, and seduction in particular, demand an ability to connect with people
on a basic cultural level in addition to a personal one. If you come across in
any way, shape or form like some kind of Romulan fleet commander, your social
intelligence will be exposed as being somewhere close to zero. You dont get it,
youre not clued-in, and your romantic potential is routinely discounted by most of
the women that youll meet. This is no way to run a railroad my friend (or a warpcloaked photon laser cruiser either...).
So its time to learn the ropes.

Section Summary:
Ive identified Seven Major Areas where guys seem to have the most
trouble with their lives. Cleaning them up raises your appeal in the eyes of
women and will help you take a more reasonable and responsible approach to
your romantic life.
Self Reliance Allowing yourself to remain dependant on someone else
for your basic survival is insidiously destructive to your growth and maturity.
Dont let laziness, pride or a false arrogance rob you of your male honor. Its
more important cut the cord and begin your solo adventure through life as soon
as you are able to.
Emotional Balance Seek a happy medium between troublesome
feelings like anger and boredom, or independence and loneliness. We get into
trouble whenever we cling to some comfortable phase of our life long after the
time when we shouldve moved on. Dont allow anyone elses brainwashing

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capture your consciousness and cripple your ability to shape your own life on
your own terms.
A Realistic Self Image Problems conceptualizing how you imagine the
rest of the world sees you will manifest themselves into all sorts of odd behaviors
and neurotic personality habits that will seriously limit your social effectiveness.
Inadequate Self Image comes from holding unreasonably high performance
standards for yourself that no one can realistically meet. This absolves you of
being responsible for yourself and is really just a sneaky cop-out. Change what
you can, mask what you cant and develop a personal theme to provoke interest
in yourself. The basis of your being able to generate alpha male-type behaviors
that trigger attraction all stem from a clean and rational self-image. Be aware that
your shyness acts as a shyness trigger in others and automatically positions you
as someone to be avoided, so work to get this cleaned up.
Fear and Pain Control Fears that manifest themselves in commonly
repeated patterns are known as Self Defeating Behaviors. The power to break
any SDB lies in your awareness that a choice point exists. Become aware that
there is always a second path to choose whenever an old habit begins to force
you down a familiar behavior track that leads nowhere.
Standing up for yourself is essential to your well-being as a man. You will
experience a boost of self-esteem even when you lose a fight as opposed to the
wrenching dismemberment of your spirit that any act of cowardice entails.
Backing down from any challenge to your manhood is the absolute worst thing
you can ever do to yourself. These memories stack up and last a very long time
and can be very destructive to your confidence.
Sexual Confidence One of the biggest obstacles to a fulfilling sex life is
a body that you view with shame, so do whatever it takes to get the things that
disturb you the most about your appearance cleaned up. Humor and eroticism
are linked in the hearts of most women. They love the light-hearted approach in
bed it puts them in a more relaxed state within which they find it easier to
orgasm. Let the fantasies flow, think up games to tease each other with, and
verbally express your passion as often as possible. Your confidence will bloom
once you discover the effect that openness, humor and even some debauchery
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Financial Sanity Most problems with personal finances can be traced

back to stupid ideas about money being force-fed to us while growing up. The
biggest reason guys end up broke is simple lack of focus they never put any
real effort into setting themselves up to make serious money. Find something
you enjoy doing, get good at it, then find a way to market that skill. You dont get
anywhere in life working hard, you have to work smart. Get involved in
something that has the potential to keep you moving steadily upwards over the
years. The only real mindset upgrade that you need in order to turn your financial
life around can be summed up in a single word: optimism.
A Standard Mate-Hunting Routine Scoring women is just another skill
like anything else. Men tend to put enormous weight on the subject of women
and far too much pressure on themselves to be naturally great at it or else they
feel diminished. Learn to re-frame the notion of meeting women as being
something other than absolute life or death. This stuff works best when its
approached as a fun hobby that you play with because that places you in the
relaxed frame necessary for success.
Develop an edge for yourself An edge comes from having emotions
working you over... sadness over a recent breakup, etc. It doesnt really matter
what the source is, only that something seems to be driving you and is visible in
some way just beneath the surface of your character. Men in this frame of mind
have an emotional pressure that encourages them to tend to their needs and
ignore their fears. It forces them to take chances with women because they feel
free to experience first and think second.
Dont be a crackpot Conversational topic selection offers a major
clue about whats dominating your thoughts. In both the game of seduction and
the game of life the first impressions you make on others are what make or
break you socially. You must learn to respect social conventions even if you
dont approve of them. Its a marker of your social intelligence and women tune
right in on this, so it must always be working in your favor.

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Well shes fashionably lean

And shes fashionably late
Shell never break a scene,
Never break a date
But shes no drag, just watch the way she walks
Shes a... twentieth century fox
Twentieth Century Fox
The Doors, 1967
My Five Essential Things to Understand About Women
very guy in the world has an opinion about women, and Im certainly no
different. Hell, Im enough of a gas-bag on this subject that I felt I could write a
couple of books about it! My mind works in stranger ways than most however, so
maybe some of these things I think about dont normally occur to most people,
and to me that means they might have value even if only because they force you
to look at things differently than you might otherwise. Women are like finely cut
diamonds that need to be examined from many angles so I believe its
important to take a look at a few different facets of the female psyche before we
plunge into a collection of strategies designed to bag one for ourselves.
In particular Ive focused in on five major ideas that I think its in every
guys interest to understand about women... things that will make their baffling
behaviors seem a little less bizarre. I will now present the concepts of Hot
Chickness as a superpower, Self-Transcendence, Chemistry, the general
lack of Female Honor, and the importance of Eye Contact in all her dealings
with men. (Had some fun with my crayon box there ;-) Lets have a look at them
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1) Hot Chickness is a Superpower

On either side of the gender divide, social power is all about having what
the other side wants. Expressed bluntly, this means successfully acquiring
resources (money) as a man or being blessed with physical beauty if you
happen to be a women. The more of either of these qualities that you possess,
the more desired you will be by members of the opposite sex. Attraction
explained.
Of course Im stating the obvious here... we all know that the hottest
looking women have the most guys on their tail just as the richest guys have the
most golddiggers chasing after them. But it might not be obvious how being
beautiful affects some women mentally. Youve heard the old adage that beauty
is a curse, which probably originates from the days when the prettiest women in
the village were rounded up and forced into the concubines of kings, emperors
and other nobles as sex slaves. But how is that sort of antiquated idea relevant
in the modern world?
Well, it all depends on how much of a mismatch there is between a
womans overall temperament and societys expectations for her. If the gap is too
wide, there will be problems.
To better understand what Im talking about, lets look at it from a male
perspective first. Suppose you won the genetic lottery by being born into a super
rich family. You have a trust fund of 50 million dollars set up which becomes
available to you at the age of 21. For a man, having money in the bank is a
superpower it instantly supplies him with everything that most women really
want (sorry to be so crass) in a man... the promise of terrific life experiences,
security for herself and their possible offspring, the ability to show off in front of
her friends and make them jealous. All that good stuff! Having money
compensates for any and all physical and even character flaws that might
otherwise have women routinely rejecting you left and right. Rich guys dont get
rejected no matter how big an asshole they happen to be. In fact, money gives
you carte blanche to become as big an asshole you may want to be without
facing any real consequence. At least none that would interfere with your ability
to have all the great looking women you can handle throwing themselves your
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However, in this particular fantasy scenario theres a rather crazy set up.
Our mythical trust fund money: 1) generates no interest for Mr. Lucky just sitting
in a vault, and 2) it comes with a time limit: you must use the money to build
some kind of business for yourself by the age of 40, or it will all be taken away
from you. Every penny of it! You see, the original 50 million is essentially seed
capital that will diminish by about 2.5 million dollars per year until all of it vanishes
by your 41st birthday. Whatever wealth you might still have left at that time will
have to have come from the things that you did with the original seed money.
Get it?
Of course this is a rather crazy scenario that would never happen in real
life, but this will become clear to you in a minute, so stay with me!
How hard would it be to establish a business, throw venture capital around
like a drunken sailor, make a big killing in the stock market or build a real estate
empire rivaling Donald trumps with a $50 million head start? Fifty million bucks
and twenty years! It would be a slam dunk, right? And remember, all the money
you make by using the seed dough is yours to keep. Its held in a separate
account distinct from the slowly diminishing pile of seed trust money. But by the
time its gone youll have already built up your own stash and can continue to
enjoy the good life that youve become accustomed to.
Well, maybe. It seems like a slam dunk to most of us but what if you
were temperamentally unsuited to the pressures created by having all this
money in the bank and having to make good use of it before it was all gone?
Tick-tock-goes-the-clock. Maybe you dont want to live the life of some rich
playboy, maybe you just want to be alone and commune with nature or spend
your life doing volunteer work for some cause or something? Maybe youve
sampled a few of the hot chicks who were drawn to you soon after the trust fund
piggy bank was opened, but found them to be shallow and boring brats.
Suppose that you end up with a homely, frumpy woman who satisfies all
your genuine needs in a relationship... much to the chagrin of friends and
relatives who insist that you could have done better? For that matter, few of
them are happy to see you not using all that seed money to build that empire
youre supposed to be hard at work creating. Whats the problem dude? Get
busy! But suppose you have no aptitude for business? In fact, you actually enjoy
carpentry and woodworking so much that you got a job for yourself at a furniture
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world having all sorts of fun and incredible experiences with smokin hot women
hanging off you, doing mega-buck business deals in a race to build off that trust
fund before its all gone. Nope, not for you. Not interested.
In other words you prefer to just punch the clock 9-5, have a plain-jane wife
and maybe a couple of kids and take that vacation to Disneyland once every five
years. Youre a simple man and thats all you want from life. If you were an
ordinary guy like the rest of us (i.e., sans trust fund) this whole scenario would be
completely unremarkable. Youve created a life for yourself that brings peace
and satisfaction. By temperament youre a shy, unassuming, somewhat dull guy
who sticks by a personal code of ethics that states that a man should work with
his hands, love his wife and remain faithful to her, not try to outdo his friends or
think that hes better than them because he has more money, etc. A real
character, salt-of-the-earth type guy. You dont crave adventure and excitement
and risk-taking because its not in your nature. Not your temperament.
Unfortunately, peace and satisfaction are hard to come by for you living in
this way, because all that money in the bank beckons. It hangs over you like
one of those gigantic motherships in the movie Independence Day casting its
dark shadow over all your attempts to cultivate a simpler lifestyle.
The source of all your problems, all your anxiety, is that damn money.
That damn idle superpower. All this anxiety weighing upon you takes the form
of failed expectations from everywhere you look. All your friends and co-workers
at the woodworking factory tell you that youre fucking crazy to live the way you
do. Get out there and do something with all that money... buy a mansion, start a
business, learn how to hang glide in the Swiss Alps, dump your wife and score
some hot bitch. Goddamn it, use the superpower of cash or lose it!
Our Mr. Simpleman cant help but think about the loot sometimes in those
quiet moments whenever the frustrations of an ordinary work-a-day life get to
him. He watches the years flip by and sees the trust fund dwindling away. Hes
28 now and the 50 million has shrunk to a little over 30 mil. In ten years itll
almost all be gone. Should he do it? Should he quit his job and dump his frumpy
wife and grab for the brass ring? The thought at once thrills and scares the shit
out of him. What if it turns out he really has no talent for making money? What if
he takes a shot and fails?... or ends up face down in a pile of coke like Tony
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The pressure starts to get to him the pressure from his steadily dwindling
superpower and the insistence of everyone around him to seize his opportunity
before it rots on the vine. Finally, he begins to crack. He goes crazy with all sorts
of strange ideas and behaviors that are completely out of character for him. He
betrays his wife and screws all his friends over! Spends wildly and hops from one
empty-headed bitch to the next. Maybe, he eventually learns to make some sort
of truce with the demands of this damned superpower he never wanted.
Or maybe it kills him.
The point is, to those who are temperamentally unsuited to handle it
(admittedly not too many of us, but characters like this do exist), having loads of
money is not any sort of blessing. Its a curse.

Pretty Girl, Lets See Your Star Shine

The fantasy I just described to you never happens of course. That is, it
never happens to the male of the species. However, this scenario does occur all
the time... to females. And of course, it doesnt happen with money (Paris Hilton
notwithstanding)... but with beauty.
Remember what I said earlier about social power having everything to do
with possessing what the other side craves? Men desire women with lots of
physical beauty, and it isnt long before all the cute ones figure this fact out. Men
are eyeing up the lil girls and making silent promises to them long before its
legal to even do so. Select females soon understand the great premium that
society, in the form of vivid male attention, has placed on their budding beauty.
At the tender age of 17-22 they come to understand that the way in which they
look is very similar to having $50 million in the bank. Theyve won the genetic
lottery in a different but very similar sort of way to our fictional trust fund friend.
Like it or not, theyve been bestowed with a social superpower that makes
them highly prized by the other side of the gender divide:

Hot Chickness!
However, theres a similar caveat. If some of these lucky women happen
to be temperamentally unsuited to handling the demands that possession of
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edge. For while her body may be the container for a womans consciousness,
the inner soul doesnt always match the outer casing. Like our friend Mr.
Simpleman, hidden within that hot body could be someone who has no desire
whatsoever to set about exploiting the opportunities that genetic fortune has
handed her.
This doesnt stop everyone she knows from placing intense pressure on
her to do just that unfortunately and the conflict between her innermost desires
and these outward social expectations sets up a tension that can result in all
sorts of puzzling and kooky behaviors.
I knew a girl like this when I was a teenager. She was absolutely gorgeous
and the expectations by myself and everyone else in our circle of friends was that
she would become an actress or a model or something... that she would
somehow do something remarkable with her gift of beauty. This turned out
ultimately not to be the case, and it was pretty strange to watch how things
unfolded with her. Soon after the age of 18, she seemed to just go nuts in terms
of partying and drugs and probably a lot of sexual shit as well. These behaviors
were totally out of character for her. Just getting her jollies out I guess, but with a
purpose that I had certainly never imagined... she was on a desperate search for
a husband! Already? At only 21 years of age? What about seeking your star,
making a career for yourself based on your terrific looks?
Well, it turned out she had no interest in doing anything of the sort. After
some furious dating around, she ended up finding a rather ordinary guy, married
him, and immediately began having kids. This girl remained pregnant almost for
the next decade and kicked out four kids in rapid succession! Needless to say
there was little hope for any modeling career after that reproductive power
workout! To my mind this is a perfect example of the source of the conflict
that many good looking women feel when their character is unsuited to
taking advantage of their physical gifts.
Not all pretty girls necessarily feel they have any acting or modeling or
performing talent of any sort, nor do they have any interest in stripping, becoming
a Vegas showgirl or making porno movies for a living. In a word, theyre not
interested in doing anything that exploits their hot looks. Some of them dont
even want a hot looking dude. They are ordinary, low-to-medium self-esteem
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This mismatch between physical looks and hidden

agenda puts an indeterminate number of very hot women
into play for ordinary-looking guys like you and me! Try to
keep this in mind... dont discount anyone because they
seem out of your league.
However, while all this may be true, at some point early on when their hot
chick superpowers are taking shape, all these women feel the psychological
pressure from friends and family to go off on some kind of great life adventure a
place where ordinary looking people are denied access. Im convinced this
unrelenting pressure lies at the root of all the problems these types of girls
create for us guys. Because they are always being made to feel a vague
dissatisfaction with their lives no matter how well things are going for them, it
makes the little darlings impatient and easily bored with everything. Youve seen
the hot chick standing around rolling her eyes at someones dumb jokes or long
drawn out stories, right?
Everything in life is a tradeoff and so you pay a high price for premium
pussy. Since you guys love to target the 8's, 9's and 10's, then I tell you that you
must be ready to engage women who are often difficult and expensive to deal
with on many different levels. These are the drama queens of the world... the
bitches and ice queens... she of the privileged life experience consisting of guys
drooling over her and kissing her ass all throughout high school, and then later on
in the clubs and office pool.
Im not telling you that I have some kind of secret formula to magically
change the high maintenance hottie into something easy to approach, Im just
trying to show you why she acts this way and therefore why you should always
try your best not to let any of her snotty behaviors get to you. If you can apply
this knowledge to help keep your composure, then you will learn to let her bullshit
roll off you. The higher up the beauty scale that you want to work, the thicker the
skin youll need to have as a man and not just in terms of deflecting rejection or
controlling your fear, but also in order to deal with her bratty behaviors and
unpredictable moodswings.
You should also be prepared to fight other guys (I mean that mostly in a
competitive sense, but sometimes physically as well...) in order to get a shot at
the best looking women, and also to keep her after youve scored one. When
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proclaims your high male status... and that sounds like a direct challenge to a lot
of other guys (especially in situations where they are likely to be drunk and
disorderly). Some men who view their status as higher than yours will boldly
make plays to steal your woman right out from under your nose, while sneakier
pricks will try do the same thing on the sly when youre not around. Hey dude,
thats all part of winning it... keeping it.
If you have any sort of jealous streak you will probably be driven berserk
by a hottie at some point, so beware of what you wish for. But balance that
caveat by not being afraid to go after what you want. Any experience you can
have with women is valuable to your overall and long term emotional
development as a man, even if it eventually turns into an exploding cigar. So
what? Thats life.

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Hot chicks are also amazingly insecure. I dont know what the hell kind of
perfectly sculpted, porcelain smooth ass they think they should possess, but I
have yet to encounter one who seems to like her own. Its crazy! Women like
this hold such high personal appearance standards for themselves (or are feeling
the pressure from others who demand it of them?) that they end up imagining
flaws where none exist. They fret over the stupidest little things like the way their
hip-bones stick out too far, or some other minor morphic issue that no guy would
ever give a shit about.
Perhaps this is why the neg hit type of joking put-down technique can
work well these women are so goddamn paranoid they tend to immediately buy
into any put-downish comment no matter how subtle, even if its presented as an
obvious joke. Try telling some hottie at the office that for a girl with stocky legs
you sure know how to show them off the right way with those awesome pumps...
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suppose youll never know when a little pin-prick like this can lead to something
beautiful. It might even make a nice story to tell your kids someday!
A lot of guys let themselves get pissed off when they encounter the bratty
attitudes of hot women. Theyre fed up with the selfishness that cute chicks wear
like a birthright, their lack of empathy for the men who bravely try to reach out to
meet them. Working 8-9-10's takes a lot of mettle. You have to survive her pouty
disinterest in order to break through and make an impression sometimes. As you
move down the scale of desirability, these self-serving personality factors become
less of an issue until they fade away completely around level 6.0 or so. (I would
be careful using these snarky neg-hit techniques on ordinary women because
theyre less likely to get it.) Well get into all of this soon enough in the following
sections.
I guess I dont know exactly what Im trying to prove with my whole theory
of hot chickness other than to present some basis for understanding the reasons
that underlie their exasperating behaviors. Maybe with this sort of understanding
you can move beyond her brattiness to a place of amused contentment? Hey,
this could be enough to turn you into that man shes looking for a guy who can
stand up to her bullshit and let it run off his back. I believe that more than
anything else, this is what the hottest women are really after. Guys who are
appreciative but unintimidated by their great looks.
Just remember one thing, the most beautiful women in the world are not
necessarily looking for some pretty-boy GQ model to compete with them, or some
sugar daddy who plays it fast-and-loose with the cash... thats what her friends
expect of her. Perhaps you can be her ordinary guy port in the storm from all
this craziness and end up with a woman draped across your arm that will have all
your friends scratching their heads wondering how you scored a chick so
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2) Self-Transcendence Makes Her Different

Think about how many times, I have fallen
Spirits are using me
Larger voices callin...
Southern Cross
Crosby, Stills and Nash 1982
If theres one thing that can be blamed for creating endless trouble both
comic and tragic between men and women, its got to be this vast chasm, this
gulf, in their core thinking styles. In a nutshell: men consider women illogic,
while women see men as emotionally retarded to varying degrees. Thats the
baseline of opposing viewpoints that underlies all romantic differences of opinion,
really.
All the specifics that you can dream up her shitty sense of time and
direction, a desire to rely on hunches and intuition to guide her, impulsiveness
and shopping addictions, the notion that she can read your mind (or even worse,
that youre supposed to be able to read hers!) Etc. Etc. form a tapestry that
always screams ILLOGICAL to the ordinary male. And they have a similar one
for us, full of items such as forgets anniversaries or checks out other women
when were in public and things of this nature. These ideas are ingrown and
form the battlelines of all conflicts.
However, the real similarity between these dueling gender lists isnt that
theyre merely pet-peeves its the fact they both stem from thinking
proclivities that many scientists now believe to be genetically hardwired.
Theres no escape from them, in other words! The evidence is slowly being
uncovered as researchers sort through the enormous galaxy of data produced by
the Human Genome Project, a multi-million dollar / multi-national effort to openly
unravel the human blueprint of life.
Researchers went through and methodically recorded the untold billions of
code sequences in typical human DNA and created a basic, unbiased reference
library of this raw information for the first time ever. Other scientists are able to
sift through this data in search of evidence to support their own pet projects. And
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One of these lines of investigation was laid out in a very interesting book I
read a while ago called, The God Gene (Dean Hamer, Doubleday 2004, ISBN #
0-385-50058-0, hardcover). The over-riding central idea which the author of this
book explored was something he called self-transcendence. This is a
personality-cognitive quality of the human mind that attempts to place a
measurement on an individuals tendency to either accept or reject the possibility
of supernatural events holding sway over their life.
For instance, are you what could be considered a cold realist or someone
who stubbornly clings to a sense that theres something more to reality than can
be detected by our senses, or measured by Science? Hamer calls this
supernatural bias a persons Transcendental Quotient or TQ.
As I read through it, this book began to put a few fascinating thoughts into
my own head concerning the nature of the female mind. The following set of
ideas is completely speculative in nature, but damn intriguing, and I offer them in
that vein.
First let me quickly outline for you how this transcendental quotient theory
was developed. In the university study that initially produced this entire body of
thought, the baseline TQ for a variety of different people was first established.
This was done by giving them questionnaires that sought to assign a numeric
score to three distinct qualities of their personality: Self-forgetfulness,
Transpersonal Identification, and Mysticism.
Heres what this all means:
Self-forgetfulness (SF) is a quality that can best be described as a
tendency to become so lost in a familiar task that you completely lose track of the
passage of time. You may think of it as zoning out or even a form of mild
absent mindedness. Self-forgetfulness is about watching your ego disappear into
a comfortable activity like a hobby, meditation or even a good book. Theres can
even be a component of boundary loss with another person a feeling of being
so in love with someone, for instance, that you almost seem to merge into a
single entity with them. Spiritual people score high for this particular TQ aspect.
Low SF people, on the other hand, are very different sorts of animals. They tend
to remain acutely aware of themselves and their environment at all times and
have a more difficult time shutting off the critical processing operations of their
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consider themselves highly logical in terms of their thinking style and general
approach to life. People like this can be those types who view spirituality as a
form of organized silliness and dont just get it.
On the other hand, High SF people are more likely to be the dreamers,
artists and creative types of the world individuals who will happily lose
themselves in a daydream whenever the mood strikes them. This is what carries
along a musician lost in the act of creating his art for hours on end... or a workout
freak zoning into a ten mile run.
Transpersonal Identification (TI) describes an emotional quality of
connectedness to the universe, a feeling that you are somehow interwoven into
the fabric of life, as opposed to being distinct or (especially) superior to it. High TI
people take a more Buddhist or Zen approach to life... they care for animals and
nature dont believe in hunting or possibly even eating animals (vegans are
usually High -TI). People of this ilk are concerned about the environment and
many even consider the planet a kind of organism (Gaia) to be responsibly
cherished and protected. The Hi-TI type is far more likely than the Low -TI
personality to contribute to causes like Greenpeace or to volunteer his time to an
animal shelter. Generally considered fuzzy-thinking idealists by the Low-TI
crowd, they have a high capacity of kindness and selflessness. So lets not be
too quick to judge them. It takes all types to run the world properly.
The final quality to be considered in building our TQ profile is Mysticism,
which is a deeply seated belief in the existence of some invisible dimension
unmeasurable from our present position here in reality. These are the sort
of people who buy heavily into things like ghosts, ESP, past lives, the sixth-sense,
a Second Coming and the like. While usually not possessing an outright disdain
for the rational and scientific, they believe that the totality of reality is not
completely described by things we can deduce via reasoning power and
observation alone. That there exists some other component of reality lying
beyond absolute proof of its existence. In fact, they often dont require absolute
proof to believe in anything they sense could be (or must be) real. They enjoy
doing this mostly to make the logical tear their hair out I believe ;-).

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People with High TQs score strongly in all three of these categories, while
the more logical-type thinkers tended to score much lower across the board. In
fact, after giving these tests to a huge cross section of people and crunching the
numbers, researchers discovered that there was actually quite a gender based
difference as well. It turned out that women scored about 18% higher in selftranscendence than did men. Ah-ha! We tend to disparage girls as being ditzy
or childish, but now Im beginning to wonder if we might be observing a
fundamental cognitive difference that could be neurologically locked-in, and
therefore not subject to a lot of change. Interesting stuff to know about our prey,
dont you think?
Understanding subtle differences based on TQ can help you in finding a
long term partner with a logical-spiritual bias compatible to your own. This could
either mean similar or different however, depending on how you happen to define
compatible for yourself. If you value quiet contentment then youll probably be
after a woman whos TQ is similar to your own. Whereas if youre more the
emotional thrill-seeker, then you cant beat a relationship with someone whos
living on the opposite end of the TQ scale for conflict potential! This can help
you take the selecting of a life partner beyond the usual realm of hit-or-miss.

Sign Here Please...

So now that we know all this, how do we make use of it in seduction? Well
I believe that if we can estimate what sort of personality bias logical or spiritual
someone is likely to possess, we can use that knowledge to kind of sync-up
our own presentation to them and appear to be on the same wavelength as they
are. This is one major factor in finding that mysterious chemistry with a woman
that can be so elusive. Well talk more about this later in the section, but for now
its good to know we can at least develop a plan to manipulate this one possible
important element.
First though we have to figure out ASAP just what her TQ might be, high or
low. Theres a quick-and-dirty way to get a general reading on someones TQ,
and thats by taking a peek at their handwriting. I kid you not. Full blown
handwriting analysis is a complex subject that requires an entire book of its own
to completely investigate (and Ill give you a good one to read in a moment if
youre interested), but I just want to assure you that this is not a lot of hocuspocus bullshit in case thats what youre thinking now. Handwriting analysis can
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And in the business world too. Many big corporations are beginning to
require a handwriting sample as a routine part of their interview and hiring
process. You mayve wondered why you had to re-copy a sample paragraph in
long hand on your last job interview, and now you know why. Someone in human
resources went over that thing with an HA chart and used it to get an idea of your
thinking style and emotional bias in order to see what kind of team player you
were likely to be (or not).
You can take a page from their sneaky handbook and do a bit of sly
investigating for yourself. All you need to do is obtain little sample of her
handwriting somehow (longhand, not printed) and youre in business. Sometimes
even a signature will do, although people tend to stylize their signatures or make
them overly sloppy, but if thats all you can get sometimes it can be enough. A
look at the slant of her writing is enough to get a general idea of where her TQ
thermostat is likely set. In order to do a precise evaluation youd need a written
sample with a full range of various letters. Its beyond the scope of this book to
get into loops and descenders and all that other kooky stuff. Slant should be
enough to give you an idea of what youre dealing with for now. Then you can
watch for other clues to support your suspicions as you get to know her better.
Theres really only three significant slanting styles to know about. Heres
the first one:

This is the leftward slant, which is a bit unusual (especially in right-handed

people) but common enough. This type of writer is very likely an introvert. He or
she is the kind of person who ordinarily keeps his own counsel, withholds strong
emotions, considers his choice of words carefully before speaking and generally
attempts to make very logical decisions. This type of woman is likely to have a
Low TQ and not be much into stuff like religion or artsy-fartsy pursuits. There
can be little visible emotion going on here, just lots of level-headedness. If your
looking for a wife who can handle the household, kids and finances without flying
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be the most outrageous or enthusiastic deal in bed (or very orgasmic either), so
be sure to go for a sexual test drive before deciding on an LTR with a chick like
this.

Heres another one to watch for, the rightward slant. Right slanting is
more common because most people are right-handed, but its the severity of the
slant that youre actually interested in. The more radical her slant (sometimes to
the point of unreadability) the more likely youll be looking at an emotionally
responsive person who has a very High TQ. This woman is very likely to be
extroverted and have tons of friends and all sorts of activities and shit crowding
her schedule. This is not a bookworm with lots of free time for lazy, get-together
type afternoon dates (the kind I like). Her card is full and shes often complaining
about being pressed for time. You will hear this a lot. Shes likely to be impulsive
as well. Taking a chance to just show up at her door and spontaneously do
something with you that afternoon has a good chance of going over big with this
kind of personality. Whereas the left-slanting, Ms. Logical would probably have
to think about it.
The Righty is a woman who will likely be found working in a people-type job
rather than alone at a desk. Shes outgoing and will pick up on a strong flirt
because she has a natural need for affection and enjoys the attention of men.
This is the kind of girl who can roll through some nasty mood swings however,
and run her credit card into the stratosphere during an afternoon shopping binge
but she can just as easily steal your heart with her sparkling lifeforce. Whether
this type is more likely to make you want to tear your hair out or sing love songs is
your call the rightward handwriting slant is a strong indication that youve got an
artistic-spiritual-passionate one on the hook. The several Ive personally
experienced were dynamite in bed too, as you might expect.
Alright then, this last one is a more rare find, but she can be trouble so you
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Notice the way the slant changes back and forth between left and right
within the same sentence? If this looks kind of crazy to you then you guessed
correct my friend. Youll have a tough time trying to pin down what the hell youve
got on your hands with a back-and-forth slanter. Women like this have a lot of
internal conflict between the head and heart which seriously interferes with their
ability to make clean and crisp decisions. These kinds of women can best be
described as mind-changers... they blow with the wind and will have you tearing
out your expensive hair plugs with their extraordinary capacity for flightiness.
Breaking dates at the last moment, showing up at your door unexpectedly,
morphing from purring sex kitten to complaining bitch... these are the norm once
you fall for this type of chick. She has it all!
The variable slant foretells of a person who experiences a continuous
internal tension. I know a beautiful young woman who fits this bill perfectly.
Shes highly emotional and prone to mood swings that fly between near-suicidal
depression and wacky mania. Id already known her for many years and was well
acquainted with her strange moods, then one day I happen to see her signature
on the back of a canceled check. And it looked exactly like the sample scribble
above! I was floored I couldnt believe how accurate her handwriting style
matched the personality characteristics described in the handwriting analysis
book! Its what convinced me this stuff must have merit.
Women of this variety tend to be attention vampires, they need to pair up
with a giver... someone who has lots of reserve available to devote to the care
and feeding of another persons psyche. In case youre not up to the task and
would rather bail at the first sign of trouble, then keep a lookout for that back-andforth slanted handwriting.

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Im actually just scratching the surface of this topic as you may imagine,
theres lots more to know if youre interested in going deeper. I learned
everything I just showed you here from Bart Baggetts book... Handwriting
Analysis Secrets of Love, Sex and Relationships. Baggetts excellent
treatment of this subject doesnt just give you the lowdown on analyzing
handwriting, it does so with the aim of helping you find the perfect mate. In other
words, its a relationship book that you should add to your library. Barts
treatment of this fascinating subject is packed with loads of sample analysis
breakdowns, and is a quick & fun read. I highly recommend it.
Of course, you dont have to do any of this stuff on the sly if youre not the
sneaky type you can be completely open about analyzing each others
handwriting and even make it into a game (its great for that second, mellow date
well talk about later). You can just bring the book out and start going through it
with her. Even better, this book can be purchased along with a companion card
deck called the Graph-O Deck that has all sorts of letter-shape and writing-slant
examples with their analysis printed out right on the bottom of the card. You can
turn yourself into an instant handwriting expert with this cool card deck!
A one-on-one session is easy... each of you copy a paragraph from a
newspaper in longhand and go through the deck one card at a time looking for
matches. Shell be amazed at the results (and so will you!). I once discovered
this girl was supposedly a big procrastinator because she crossed her letter T in
front of the crossbar... which I later discovered to be entirely true! This pokey
bitch didnt last long because that sort of shit makes me crazy! Anyway, heres a
link to check it out Bart Baggetts Handwriting Analysis book and the Graph-O
Deck for yourself: www.myhandwriting.com
Even if you think this handwriting stuff is total bullshit, remember that most
women are fascinated by new age psycho-therapy sort of fluff stuff, high TQ or
not, and many will eagerly go along with an analysis session as long as you
agree to play along and submit your own writing sample as well. Some of you
guys might even want to take this card deck into the bar and use it to ice-break
women. Its a great way to draw cold prospects into a conversation, and can
even keep an entire group entertained if youre looking to bust a group. Why not
let this tool do all the heavy lifting for you?

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3) Attraction for Her is All About Chemistry

Chemistry. The single most hated word in the entire universe of hooking
up with women at least as far as men are concerned. We try our damnest to do
all the right things to impress a woman only to have some clueless schlub
stumble into the picture and sweep her right out from under our noses. Why?
Because ...we just had such great chemistry together! What does that mean?
you know, we just enjoy the same things, he has that certain something about
him... Great, that explains everything.
One of the reasons I took up the cause of writing these books arises from
my frustration with the vagueness of the language used by women when you try
to pin them down on what they want from men. All you get are things like this
chemistry garbage that tells us nothing. Adding to our aggravation is the fact
these chemical guys have it made with the women whom they seem to cast their
spell over. They can use and abuse them, cheat on them and whatever else you
can think of. Shell just keep wiping away the tears and crawling back for more.
Its ridiculous how slavishly devoted women become to guys whom they feel this
chemical connection with. We want some too!
Therefore, in the interest of defining this mysterious substance so the rest
of us can share in the fun, Ill give it a shot. But Im warning you, I have some
ideas, but no perfect answers. Thats because not only is this X-factor as slippery
as a bucket of eels, it changes from one women to the next. So theres no
way I can tell you go off and do this, this and that and then you too will be oozing
chemistry from every pore. If only it were so simple. Seems this chemistry thing
is not merely invisible and defying of all description, the women like it that way!
Seriously, I think it gives them a thrill to see us trying on different looks, getting
new haircuts, tattooing ourselves like madmen and generally just snarling at each
other... all in the interest of being the one dude who will establish that magical
chemical connection with her!
But you are in luck my friend... for after years of toiling away in my cobwebencrusted laboratory, I Dr. Victor von Pilinski have isolated what I believe are
the two essential elements of this inexplicable chemistry: social intelligence and
the nice guy factor. These things do not work their magic in isolation... they are
made complete by things like body smell (which I talked about in my earlier
book), specific facial features or mannerisms (which will likely match-up
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younger, someone cherished who you remind her of..) and other sorts of
intangibles which lie beyond your control. But as long as you can control
something about this process, it challenges us as seducers to do just that
control it. So lets give it a try.

Demonstrate Social Intelligence

There are several different flavors of intelligence that people can become
good at. When we say someones intelligent, were often describing a person
who either has a lot of formal education (book smarts) or some kind of
demonstrated reasoning ability beyond the ordinary. Some people are
mathematical geniuses, others possess an incredible ability to retain and
regurgitate a huge volume of facts and raw information. Do we call them trivia
intelligent or memory intelligent? And then there are people who are hooked
into everyone else, are highly empathetic and intuitive of the feelings of others.
Individuals like this are said to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.
They make fine counselors, priests, psychiatrists and nurses any profession
where so-called people skills are prized.
Without a doubt when it comes to pursuing women, the most useful type of
intelligence to have is the social kind. Commonly called street smarts, its the
sort of savvy that doesnt come from a book but accrues from being out there
experiencing the unforeseeable events that happen whenever people mix and
mingle. Social Intelligence broadens as you continue to date and interact with
women. After a while, your astuteness will gradually begin to show itself in subtle
ways such as how well you handle the various curveballs women can throw your
way without losing your cool. Its that veneer of suave and sophistication which
women universally seem to dig.
Lets face it, a womans read of your social intelligence can be a big factor
in terms of your even having a shot with her. Women are mostly disappointed by
men who don't "get it" who seem short on social intelligence. They are
disgusted by men who cluelessly act needy or adopt similar fem-type behaviors
that diminish their sexiness. To them it must seem simple to create a great
impression with a little display of wit and charm and confidence, but so few men
actually seem capable of doing it. Ive found that one thing most women wont do
is change their standards for male courting behavior to accommodate socially
clueless men. Thats why its important to keep working on your game and on
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One of the big mistakes an intellectual type of guy can sometimes make is
adopting what he feels is a more superior, rational type approach to scoring
women. Were two adults after all, we dont have to go through all this childish
nonsense do we now?...
Oh yes we do!
What guys like this soon learn is that woman live for these silly games. Its
the most fun theyll ever have as women. Think about it the rest of their lives
will be spent raising kids, probably getting fat and/or becoming a miserable
married bitch and so on. The flirting, dating and fucking around they do during
courtship represents some of the peak experiences of their life and theyre not
about to let some tight-ass poindexter who doesnt want to play cheat them of it!
The bottom line is simply this: chicks dont get turned on by guys who make
them think they get all worked up over guys who make them feel. If you lead
with your intellect you are going to bore the hell out of most women. And if you
follow that up with all sorts of reserved and mature behavior, she will likely hang
the dreaded tag nice guy on you, and that will be the end of your romantic line.
Theres a way to do the nice guy thing and theres a way not to, and this isnt it.
Women hate it when a guy surrenders his mojo. The only exception to this rule I
suppose, might concern the very Low-TQ, rational-reasonable-intellectual-school
marmish-type of woman. But you needed to buy a book to nail her?

The Socially Intelligent are Not Afraid to Flirt

Its nearly impossible to lure a woman into feeling any sort of sexual
attraction for you by employing logic, by pushing undesired gifts upon her, and
especially by acting deferential to her every little wish. None of this registers as
manly behavior. Its a shame because you might be squarely smack dab in the
range of guy she could dig, if only you knew what the hell you were doing!
Attractiveness is a behavior pattern that can be learned, and really, there isnt
even all that much to learn you just have to change the focus of what you talk
about whenever youre around cute women in situations where you might have a
shot with them. Keep the conversation seeded with light, playful innuendo read
her eyes for go/no go signals, and avoid putting on a demonstration of how book
smart you are. Save this for later on, after youve lit her up in bed.

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Socially Intelligent guys are not afraid to Flirt! Taken in reverse

therefore, flirting is a sign (signal) of social intelligence to women. So do it often
and everywhere that its appropriate!
Just remember that flirting with a woman is an incredible gift to her. Guys
tend to feel sleazy when theyre working women because theyve had it drilled
into their heads that its all very manipulative in a somewhat malicious sense.
Thats bullshit you must reconsider the act of flirting as a great compliment that
youre paying to any woman whom you choose to focus your attention on.
Women live for the moment when they encounter a man that likes what he
sees, and is captivated by the urge to act on it. Who knows... maybe her life
lacks love and adventure, giving you just the opening you need to step in and
rock her world.

Socially intelligent men learn to play feminine desires like a violin. Women
can instantly feel it when they are in the presence of a guy who "gets it". Stick to
clever sexual-type innuendo when first flirting, and then only if she responds
favorably to your gentle teasings. If she gets all upset then youve already
learned something important about what an uptight stiff she is, right? Few
women will allow you to get away with overt sexual remarks unless you are
knockout good looking and/or stinking rich. But if you can gradually nudge her in
this direction then shes probably game for more.
Heres an example of what I mean. First, lets take a look at the typical
smart guy approach:
Hey Anna, I hear youre going to be in Professor Xs class this
year. I ran a few term papers past him last semester and maxed
them out with As. So if you want to study with me, we could hook
up for that. Ive got all the reference guides too.
Thats cool. I suppose we could.

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Did I tell you Im in line for an internship at XYZ Corp?... I

made their list of ten finalists.
I didnt know that. I wanted to try out for that job too, but my
cars been giving me trouble and I dont trust taking that long ride into
Boston three days a week.
Whats wrong with it?
I dont know, it keeps trying to stall out when Im at a red
light...
Its probably just a fuel filter. Did you get it checked?
No. I dont have the money.
Ive got a buddy that lives ten minutes away, hes got a full set
of tools. Why dont we take it down there Saturday and I can have a
look at it. What do you think?
I dont know, I guess. Whats it gonna cost?
Probably not much, just a few bucks for the filters if thats all it
needs. I used to help a friend of mine in high school who used to
drag race a lot. I know all about cars.
You sound like my brother, hes Mr. Mechanic.
So what do you say? Then we can come back and study,
maybe get a pizza or something?...
She shrugged. I guess so.
Whatever dude. While this isnt a horrible play, neither is it inspiring.
Notice how this Mr.-Know-it-All stuff fails to get her juices going? Any time youre
getting a lot of these yeah, I guess so kind of responses you can be sure that
youre not sparking up any real romantic interest. Yeah, shell go along for the
free ass-kissing and maybe get her car fixed in the deal. But if this guy tries to
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roadblocks all over the place. Thats because he didnt get into her head right off
the bat. Guys who attempt to fascinate with a demonstration of their amazing
brainpower dont understand how badly theyve put the cart before the horse...
girls will be impressed by how brilliant you are at calculus and auto repair after
youve become their man but youve got to get there by a different route first.
There is also a fairly high chance of getting stiffed on a soft date like this.
Theres a negative aspect to this type of approach which is its fundamental
dishonesty. She knows perfectly well that youre interested in her and not
studying, but you feel that you must hide your motives behind some other more
honorable facade. Shes knows its probably because youre just shy, but what
if youre a ratty little sneak who lies to get what he wants? Some girls are
suspicious enough to think this way. Anyway... lets get some excitement going!
Hi Anna.
Whats up?
Not too much. I hear youve been floating along in the top 5%
of Professor Xs stat class. Ive been looking for a good tutor.
No kidding?
Yeah, my study habits are weak. I need discipline, and
maybe a little punishment thrown in for good measure.
She giggled. Really? What kind of punishment do you
need?
Ummm... maybe I could be sent to bed without my dinner?...
Yeah, in your fuckin dreams dude.
Well then the honor of studying alongside the only person in
Lit 105 to pull an A-minus will have to do. Thanks for destroying the
grading curve. Now Im headed for a McCareer...
How did you know about that? That I got an A-minus?

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I have x-ray vision. I saw through your mailbox.

What else are you seeing? she teased.
He looked her up and down playfully, ... a pink thong. Hey
youre not gonna wear that while were trying to study are you? My
ADD will kick in.
I guess youll just have to remember to take your Ridalin.
Hey, if were getting together to study, Ill have to double the
dose. So what do you think? What time are we getting together?
She sighed. Maybe... Friday night?
Youre making me choose between you and Sammy Sheers
beer bong?
Hey if you want to hang out with your buddies...
Not a chance Ann, theres nowhere else Id rather be than
receiving a lesson from you, he smiled.
So, she shot him a wicked look, whats the deal?
Friday, 7:30. Youre dorm, I bring the subs?
Alright. Sounds like a plan. See ya, as she turned to walk
away, he enjoyed watching the delightful bounce in her walk.
See what happened here? The first guy played it straight and was able to
make himself into enough of a pest to pull a study date -- but where did it get
him? The thing he did wrong is that he didnt communicate his potential romantic
desire to her strongly enough, but instead tried to mask it behind an intellectual
smokescreen. He expects shell get it that the whole studying thing is a bit of a
ruse, but women are generally unimpressed with men who make these kind of
round-a-bout plays for them. They want to see you step up to the plate and take
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Guy # 1's uncertainly speaks of a desire to shield his ego. This exposes
him as a guy on the lower end of the male status scale, and women simply do not
get excited about men from whom they draw an LSM read. Since you are in
charge of how you come across to other people, you are the one ultimately to
blame for these kind of shitty first impressions!
The second guy, on the other hand begins kidding around with her
immediately and tries to put her off balance a bit. The actual flow of conversation
may not be super slick like something from a movie, but it doesnt need to be.
The fact that youre in there flirting and teasing does the job of non-verbally
communicating your interest as a man. Notice how he gets her going back and
forth with the sexual innuendo? Anna understands that hes hot for more than a
study partner... and believe it or not she actually appreciates this honesty. It
communicates a mating interest signal that gets her perked up.
Also notice that number two doesnt try to disguise the fact that he digs the
girl, nor does he make a groveling spectacle of himself either. See the delicate
balance here? The idea is to land somewhere in the middle and not be
ashamed to show that you dig a girl, while trying to avoid coming off so
desperate that you surrender your male dignity in the process!
One of the things women find ultra-attractive about a man is his willingness
to take a social risk. This is how he demonstrates courage for the female its an
important aspect of his male display. Men who can manipulate women by
engaging their emotions at will are regarded as enticing. No pick-up line cobbled
together of mere hypnotic words can hold a candle to this kind of virtuosity.

Being a Nice Guy with a Sexy Edge

I said a moment ago that chemistry was the most hated word in all of
seduction. I apologize... how could I have forgotten that most scurrilous of all
slanderers the nice guy. The nice guy. If youve ever had the unfortunate
experience of having the label nice guy hung on you by some chick that youre
hot for, forget it... youve just been deposited straight into the shitbasket. The
nice guy may be all things wonderful to women, except for the minor fact that hes
unfuckable. Most women can no more contemplate having sex with a guy she
thinks of as nice than she can her own biological brother. This label represents
the graveyard of broken dreams, and you need to keep it off yourself at all costs.

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Still, listen to any one of these gab shows that women participate in
(Oprah, etc.), and whenever they are asked to describe what theyre looking for in
terms of an ideal mate, they all talk about this fucking nice guy who has yet to
appear in their lives and sweep them away. However, as a man, if you actually
get tagged as a nice guy youre romantically dead. So what is going on here?

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Well, as usual, women are talking out of both sides of their ass on this
subject. Just like chemistry, nice guy is another one of those nondescript terms
that means one glorious thing when they pine away about it and quite another
when they actually encounter it in real life. Despite the fact that most feral
women (18-35) at some point hook up with the drunken low-lifes and jerks they all
claim to hate, they would have you believe this happens only because the right
"nice guy" hasn't come-a-stumbln' into their life yet. Horseshit I say.
Heres the real deal, while women pay lip service to nice guys, they secretly
despise them. Why? Because explicit niceness (perhaps even pornographic
niceness is a better way to put it ) is the unmistakable signature of the supplicant,
beaten male... the low status male. This is someone whom a womans deepest
mating instincts urge her to reject!
Women recognize nice guy behavior as originating from you having been
put in your place by other more powerful men. In other words, nice guy is how
subservient men have learned to act in order to protect themselves from harm ("I
am no threat to your status as the more dominant male... please don't hurt me...
let me be your tame, lovable side-kick..."). Somehow we need to distinguish
between this groveling kind of suck-ass nice guy, and whatever behavior it is that
women actually seem to be looking for.
I think when women blab away about these mythical nice guys what they're
really dreaming of is a guy who makes them feel safe... but in a certain way that
preserves his sexual attractiveness to them. Now to a woman, safe means ONLY
that you're physically harmless to them, nothing more. In terms of whatever
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blend of hot n' cold, exciting n' boring, safe n' dangerous is what shes really after.
So this is the lightning in a bottle were looking to capture.
You want to demonstrate that your acceptance of the role of her protector,
while at the same time hint at the potential of creating the kind of intense
emotions that she craves. Never ACT like a nice guy around women, but always
SEEM like you could be one when she needs it most. Thats your balancing act.
As always, the trick is mostly one of awareness in striving to understand
how youre coming across to women. Its basically just learning to keep up a
confident flirt while avoiding a desperate posture. Women are abundant in your
life, right? This is the attitude that has to just pour out of you. Her response
always has to seem like a done deal in your own mind. Some women will actually
trance-out and begin to make submissive gestures almost unconsciously. These
types of reactions are instinctive mating reflexes that are still very powerful, so
provoke them at your own risk. (Im kidding of course... provoke away!)
A lot of the magic that separates lifes winners from losers is positive
expectancy coming from the winners. When people get the sense that whatever
youre doing is already a done deal in your own mind, they have a tendency to
go along and play their expected role in your scheme. Not always of course, but
often enough to make things break in your favor. In the similar but opposite way,
if a negative expectancy about something comes through in your attitude (like a
stuttering, uncertain approach for instance) people will also tend to help out by
gladly taking a shit all over your dreams.
Its kind of like littering in the park... if the park seems clean, people will
pick up after themselves. But if theres garbage all over the place, theyll feel free
to add to the mess with their own contribution of candy wrappers and empty beer
cans. People are easily manipulated whenever they are confronted by what
seems like the inevitable to them this is a trick that politicians have used for
centuries to control the behaviors and allegiances of entire nations. Make it seem
like the winds of change have already switched direction and all thats left is for
you to hop on the bandwagon. Individuals who achieve things both great and
notorious have learned to make this phenomenon work in their own interest.
Simply master this positive expectancy nuance of the seduction game, and
you can show up on any womans radar as that rarest of encounters for her... a
nice guy with a sexy edge!

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!
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So how do you get this sexy edge deal working for you? Well, there are
generally two things that women are attracted to in men either their look or their
proficient performance at some task (okay, or both). Yeah its great to have a
happening look going for you, but being engaged in a sexy activity can
compensate for your NOT looking good sometimes. There is a way to throw her
a curve by being the right guy in the wrong package by playing up some unique
aspect of yourself that youre good at. It doesnt have to be anything fantastic like
performing on stage, just something that you can show off doing with some
degree of confidence. Playing an instrument, snowboarding, kicking ass at some
sport, giving a speech to class, shooting pool, etc.
Make her see you as the answer to the question where are all the nice
guys at?, and youre on your way to working a successful seduction. Just make
sure that youre playing the part of the physically safe emotionallychallenging kind of nice guy and not the desperate fawning type. Get her to
associate you with exciting times, and maybe even just a bit of danger. This is
what distinguishes the guy whos hot from the dud.

4) She Can Cheat, You Cant

From the moment the first upright walking semi-human male smashed-in
the head of some rival and stole his female men have fought, schemed,
connived, killed and humiliated one other in the endless quest to demonstrate
dominance and primacy over each other. Human history runs red with the
evidence. And when you boil the bullshit away they all do it for a single reason
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Think about it... beyond some food in your belly or a warm place to live,
what motivates any guy to struggle for great personal and financial achievements
if not in the end for the need to impress some woman with it all?

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The result of all this enterprise has been a long-held sense of entitlement in
men. Since it is we who must jump through all these various and ofttimes
humiliating hoops in order to be blessed with the pleasure and company of
women, males have compensated by designing societies and cultures in which
women must play second fiddle to them economically. Historically, women have
been constrained to roles that have limited their ability to hold political power or
accumulate wealth on their own, thus making them dependent upon men for their
ultimate survival and that of their offspring.
This sense of entitlement however, comes with a price.
Bought and sold, possessed like property women have sought their own
form of compensation by quietly designing an avenue via which they can wield
the maximum amount of power in that one arena where they set the rules... the
courtship process. In this one human arena, they can cheat to get what they
want and you cant. Women accomplish this trick by having decided that the
rules which men must abide by rules of emotional fair-play and honesty dont
apply to them.
Men, you see, are indoctrinated by most male cultures to allow themselves
to be constrained by rules of combat dont hit below the belt, kick a guy when
hes down, etc. Imbued as skills of survival then later of actual warfare these
ideas still persist today in the form of various macho street codes of conduct.
We like to think that we engage in fair-fighting and honor in our pursuit of those
things in life that will make us desired by women. Women, however, long ago
decided that they didnt have to play by these sorts of rules. Oppressed, they
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them. Women have always felt free to connive and manipulate along back
channels because for centuries theyve had little or no direct access to power.
These notions of a justified double standard still continue to hold sway over
the modern female psyche.
Enlightened modern society mayve rectified many of these gender-based
inequalities in much of the world, mostly in the West, but the disparity in honor
still remains as it was hundreds of years ago. Women can cheat, men cant
simple as that. And furthermore, you cant even bitch about it... if you do, your
masculinity is called into question. These are the rules imbalanced as they may
be and fuck you if you dont like them, say the women.

Female Only Rules of Courting & Relationship Behavior

Lets flesh this out a little. Heres a few examples of the manner in which
women feel they can distort the rules to their advantage in ways that, if a man
were to attempt it, would make him the object of universal scorn and contempt
(and thats just from his mom ;-) ...
1) The harder she works on her body and/or perfecting a certain look,
the more she feels the right to be extremely selective in her choice of men.
Why kill herself in the gym and then settle for some unshaven fat ass who pumps
gas and lives in his parents basement? You have to show some evidence that
you have worked just as hard to impress her in order to have a shot at the high
class ass.
Physically cut, mentally tough, enduring frustration, risk and fear... you
have to own all of these qualities or you wont make it near her world. Not if she
thinks shes in the top 10% looks-wise. It is her right to reject without remorse.
Why? Because soon her looks will fade and her power will be lost, and men will
be back in the drivers seat again. But until then she is going to make all our lives
as miserable as she possibly can... pitting us against one another, then sucking
every molecule of life from the eventual winner.
But hold on there... guys who buff up and then think this gives them the
same right are viewed as conceited lunkheads. Women absolutely hate when
good looking guys walk around knowing that they are good looking! Dont you
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gives you and date the poor fat girls anyway? You prick. (See, this is their
cheating position.)
2) She views her ability to sexually tease all the men around her as a
birthright. Don Steele, in his seminal work in this field How to Date Young
Women For men Over 35, (go and check out Don at www.steelballs.com , hes
one of the Masters) calls this little game Rape-o. Its a female-to-male form of
emotional rape that women of any age feel free to perpetrate on men whenever
they please. They invite you to make a pass at them using their body language
and other non-verbal signals and when you do, delight in shooting your ass down.
Just testing out the old hot chick superpowers you see. Got to see if I can still
draw a lustful glance. Whats the matter dude, cant take a joke? This behavior
peaks out between the ages of 16 and 26, but women of any reasonable age can
amuse themselves with a tempered version of this bullshit routine whenever they
feel the need to reassert their female allure.
So wheres the cheat? Well, think about it... emotional rape. While Sally
may feel free to play around with mens feelings like this, imagine if you or I were
in a position to pull this kind of stunt? Say you were the golden boy in college... a
handsome sports star with mucho interest from women flowing your way 24/7. As
a joke you convinced the homeliest girl in class that you dug her and wanted to
take her out to some hot party or something, then made a public show of standing
her up and laughing about it when she tearfully confronted you later. News of
your cruelty would spread like wildfire throughout the female gossip network and
you would soon be kicked down the food chain somewhere between pond scum
and the common maggot in their collective consciousness. But they can pull
what amounts to a similar joke on you by teasing you along that you may have a
shot at them and its just a big laugh. Loser. To me this is just another clear
example of the female double standard in action. While we must maintain
some modicum honor in our behavior, they dont have to.
3) Boyfriends are always on probation whether they know it or not
and can be dumped immediately if a newer, shiner model comes driving by.
Heres the fact: under the age of 30, about 80% of women have a boyfriend with
whom they are involved to some degree... from just dating around to almost
married or whatever. Women of this age bracket hop from one guy to the next
and rarely go for a very long time alone between relationships. This is why you
should never let the idea that she may have a boyfriend stop you from casually
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of dude on a string, and you have to imagine that you could be that next guy on
deck.
This particular idea is more than of just academic interest to us because it
reveals an upside to the frivolous nature of women, which is that its possible to
get them to flip over to you on a whim. It might only require a single great first
impression to get her to change channels on her romantic life, dump her
boyfriend (or even husband), or do whatever else it takes to get her immediate
desires met. Remember, she feels its her God-given right to change her mind
about anything she wants to and feel no lasting remorse towards how much pain
and distress shes caused! And the more good looking the woman, the more
powerfully she feels compelled by the social pressures that her hot chickness
has placed on her. This anxiety serves as her justification.
Thats why I hammer away that you never know when you have a shot
with some chick who initially looks like shes probably unavailable. You just have
to be classy about it, pull a flirt, check the response and decide to move forward if
she seems willing to entertain a play. Although men are commonly ragged-out as
being the more likely to be cheaters and heartbreakers, men usually cheat long
after theyve lost all affection for a woman. But I think women cheat because they
feel like it at the moment, and that gives every guy out there a kind of universal
chance.
When push comes to shove remember, its all about creating those healthy
babies for them. The role of men is ultimately that of interchangeable sperm
fountain as far as women are concerned, at least during the courtship (husbandshopping) phase of their lives. Sorry to be so blunt about everything but who will
tell you this stuff if not me? Your mother? I think not.

5) Eye Contact Defines a Womans Romantic Universe

Songwriters and movie directors have been fascinated by the idea of men
and women staring passionately into each others eyes since they began turning
out mass entertainment at the start of the 20th century. And novelists were there
even before them. When it comes to meeting and seducing women, eye contact
is a big, big deal. The proper use of eye contact supports all your clever words.
Hell, many times it determines whether or not you will even get a chance to say
anything! In my previous book I talked about eye contact and tried to school you
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mayve even been a bit misleading. So let me try to expand on this critical issue
right now and clear up some of the misunderstandings that you may still harbor.
Where do I begin with eye contact? Maybe by telling you that I think about
80-90% of seduction is all about eye contact. Spoken words many times only
confirm what we already know. The eyes, however, are the window to the soul!
Even the world of science backs me up here. In a strictly scientific sense,
humans negotiate a mating event all the way from first pique of interest to
actual orgasm by extensive use of copulatory gazing. The so-called deep
look that I talked about in Without Embarrassment. The mistake I mayve made
in that first book was in using graphics in the form of time-charts to demonstrate
right and wrong types of eye contact insofar as timing was concerned (how long
to hold before looking away, and then back again, etc.). Im afraid what this did
was make eye contact look like some kind of cheap parlor trick that you could
practice in a mirror and then walk around all day long spearing women for your
amusement. Not so. My focus was too much on mechanics and not enough on
the wide-ranging importance of eye contact all throughout the course of the
seduction.
Men and women have for centuries mastered the use of facial expressions
including their eyes to communicate feelings without words... you scare me,
Im not interested in you, go away, please talk to me, Im so mad at you, I dare
you to try it, I love you, I feel sorry for you, back off right now, I feel humiliated in
your presence... and so forth. There must be many hundreds if not thousands of
commonly understood nuances we use on each other without hardly thinking
about them, not to mention all those personal ones which take place between two
people whove established their own personal code. What I want to hammer
home to you now is the sheer importance of eye contact when it comes to
interacting with women. You send the wrong type of eye contact out ahead of
yourself and youre already rejected even before you can speak your clever pick
up line! Do eye contact with her in a certain way however, and she wont even
hear what youre saying... so tumultuous will be the whirl of thoughts and
emotions crowding her consciousness. Thats what I was trying to say more so
than simply laying out a mechanical diagram for you to obsess over (and some of
you sure did!).
Alright, since Ive cleared up the fact that precise timing isnt the major deal
with eye contact, then what exactly is? Mostly, its about knowing when and
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Describing eye contact is particularly difficult on a written page, but Im not sure
that if I had photos it would help much either since a still-frame doesnt convey
the subtle movements surrounding the right look, its duration, when to look away
and give the person youre connecting with a chance to recover themselves, and
so forth. Maybe you can study a few romantic movies and watch the characters
carefully, see how they use their eyes on each other. Again, the key issue is one
of awareness and having a constantly-running sense of how you are affecting
other people.
One thing that eye contact definitely is not, is staring! Timing is important
in the sense that effective eye contact means looking into someones eyes for
about 80% of the time, and looking away for the remainder. This gives the
person a chance to catch their psychological breath. If you look at someone 95%
to 100% of the time, you are staring and likely creeping them out! This is what I
call the Charlie Manson serial-killer look. Dont go there or people will come to
avoid you like the plague.
The opposite end of the spectrum never meeting someones eyes can
be just as poisonous to your social life as well and heres why: your ability to
express eye contact (or not) is a major signal of your male status. Heres how it
works...

Women Stand Alone, Men Stand in Comparison

First a brief review of how the game of love takes shape in case you didnt
read my first book. In terms of romantic goals, both women and men are after the
same thing: a mate who can produce offspring with strong healthy genes to pass
along into the future. But even if youre just looking to get laid and not start a
family it doesnt matter in terms of who you consider attractive, because the
machinery in your head is designed to set off alarm bells whenever you find
yourself in the proximity of someone of the opposite sex who meets these
instinctive mating criteria.
The difference between the sexes is mostly a matter of what particular
characteristics each side is looking for... and they are not the same. Men look for
physical markers in women like facial symmetry, pubescent body style and skin
clarity all things that signify youth. Youth is what men desire because our
subconscious mind knows that the reproductive success of women is tied closely
to their age, and the younger the better. Therefore we as men tend to rate

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women in a stand-alone fashion, which is to say that we dont need to compare

women along side each other in order to know which ones are attractive and
which arent... which is to say that we know a hot chick when we see one! Rating
process finished... Ill take it!
This rating deal is considerably more complicated from the womans
perspective however. Because men maintain their sexual vitality far into their
lifespans, their relative youth isnt an issue and neither in a strict sense is their
physical appearance either. Women actually tolerate a wide range of looks and
body styles in men. They are far more forgiving of a fat beer belly than we are a
fat ass. So how do women sort men for attractiveness if not by using looks as we
do? They do it by looking for clues as to how we rank relative to other men in
terms of our accomplishments, apparent authority and wealth (or lack thereof).
What I call a mans male status. Men demonstrate their superior genes by how
well they perform against both nature and their peers. We are seen as protectors
of women and children and the means for their survival, even in modern society,
and so women have this urge to shop for the best men who seem to most likely
embody these prized qualities.
In terms of attractiveness then, men stand in comparison to each other as
far as women are concerned. Females need to see how youve stacked up
relative to the accomplishments of other men. But since we dont normally walk
around carrying a logbook of our achievements that we can show off, they have
to seek clues for what might be in that imaginary logbook in our behavior. This
is how they determine if a guy is hot or not.
And a major clue believe it or not, is eye contact. And heres why: the male
who makes good eye contact does so because hes generally content with his
accomplishments in life and the degree of authority (whatever that might be) that
hes achieved over some fraction of other men. He doesnt need to be King of
the World, just a totality of things that he feels puts him deep into the game of life.
His sense of his own worth comes through in the ease with which he
engages others. And that engagement with others, especially with perfect
strangers, expresses itself in his willingness to meet and hold their gaze. Solid
eye contact signals two important things about yourself without ever speaking a
word: that you are proud of who you are, and that youre not afraid of someone.
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Guys who cannot make good eye contact on the other hand, are usually
considered to be expressing some sort of shame. Shame? Indeed... theyve
been put in their place by other men somewhere along the line or by some other
mechanism and their lower relative status (remember, your status is always
viewed in comparison) has instilled them with some sense of what appears to be
shame about themselves. People dont always view things this keenly of course,
but the inability to look at or hold someones eye does come across as unfriendly
or anti-social, or even arrogant (as in, youre not worthy of me even setting eyes
on you!). Whatever they end up thinking, you can be sure its unflattering. Eye
contact is critical to the reactions that you draw from women, so lets learn how to
do it correctly.

Hunting for Pupils

First lets clear up one fact effective eye contact is not about looking near
a persons eyes (like the old salesmans trick of staring at the bridge of their nose,
which supposedly is indistinguishable from true eye contact). People can actually
tell the difference when youre not looking directly into their eyes and they
become uncomfortable because they think youre fixating on some flaw like a
mole or maybe something thats become stuck to their face like a glob of dried
mustard. Proper eye contact is more than just aiming your gaze at someones
head, you have to use your eyes like an instrument. You need to seek out and
look directly into the black point of the other persons pupil, nothing else is
truly eye contact. When you search out their pupils (and sometimes you
actually do have to search a little if theyre avoiding you at first), lock in for just a
couple of beats until you see them engage you, and thats when you know youve
made a solid eye-to-eye connection.
Remember not to stare. Always keep the 80-20 Rule of Eye Contact in
mind: contact for about 80% of the time, and then 20% politely looking off axis
and away. Re-engage after a short break. Its the persistence of this 80-20
action over the course of the time that establishes that sense of acknowledgment
people crave. What youre actually saying with your eyes could be any number of
things... that youre friendly, trying to gain access to a group, demanding to be
listened to, asserting your authority, putting someone at ease, etc. Various other
facial and body language nuances help to frame and define these signals. By
using eye contact in this powerful fashion you can capture someones attention
and get them to listen to you, at least for a few moments. A useful tool when
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Heres how your eye contact looks to the typical woman:

Relaxed steady eye contact, nice 80-20 on-off mix,
appropriate facial expressions = confidence, some
authority, has a life, has social skills = higher status
male.
Shifty darting eyes, look-turn away ratio of 10-90, failure
to psychologically recognize me = seems to be hiding
something, bad social skills, romantically ill-experienced,
dishonest, ashamed of something = low status male.
See how this works? Long before you open your mouth to speak your
clever lines, the way in which you lead with your eyes have either set the table for
you or shot your approach full of holes already. If youve been having lousy luck
with women for a long time and seem psychologically invisible to them, this could
be the main reason why. Its not how you look to them, but more how you look at
them that counts. It might even be helpful to rig up a video cam and record
yourself interacting with people and watch how youre working your eyes. You
might immediately recognize something way wrong that you didnt even know you
were doing. Things like cutting your eyes away and smirking constantly or
whatever. It could be obvious, but you just need a new perspective (or an honest
friend to talk to you about this frankly) to find out what the heck the problem is.
This ability to step outside yourself and see things objectively is a central skill to
self-awareness. You need genuine feedback so you can correct what you dont
like about yourself or eliminate odd behaviors that dont serve your interests.
Guys ask me all the time if theres any way they can fake it until they make
it with women. Well this is one way that you actually can... become good at eye
contact! Its the best way to signal a higher male status than youve actually
earned, but theres no way anyone can tell if you do it confidently. Solid eye
contact makes for a nifty disguise that can instantly boost the regard and respect
people have for you. And not just in terms of scoring women, but in everyday life
as well (and especially the world of office politics). You can bet all the top guys in
your company regardless of their other talents are eye contact specialists.
Some of them could be totally useless, but their behavior has made an impact on
the right people. They are always psychologically present in the room, always on
someones radar. Thats why they end up with the credit and the promotions...
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The eye contact provocateur gets networked into crucial information

channels, dealt with promptly by people, and his needs and requests are taken
seriously. Thats because for the person being looked at eye contact sends
an invisible message of attention, connection and acknowledgment... and
people absolutely feed off these emotions. And they hold their source in high
regard.
Thats the guy you want to be!

Shifty Eyes Are Ashamed To See

So after all this, what if I still cant force myself to meet someones eyes
without immediately turning away? And Im not talking about the look-away
reflex most people have either, but a flat out inability to sustain 80-20 style eye
contact?
A look straight into someones eyes is psychologically profound because
the train runs in both directions, meaning that the other person gets a peek into
your soul as well. I believe that if you feel ashamed to be seen this
profoundly because theres something fundamental you cant tolerate
about yourself, you will experience a powerful urge to turn away. It could be
learned, possibly genetic... whatever. Another reason could be that youre so
miserable 24/7 that you refuse to acknowledge anyones existence by looking
directly at them. In effect youre saying: I hate your guts so badly I cant even
tolerate your presence, get the hell away from me. Either one has the result of
social ostracization and eventual isolation.
So youve got to search out the root of your personal shame or anger
issues, understand how they work in your particular case, and then work to
diminish or dispel them. See my first book Without Embarrassment, or Google
John Bradshaw +shame and find some of the fine books written by this guy.
He will school you on the whole amazing notion of toxic shame. This is the
psychic poison that supports alcoholics and violent tempers everywhere. Get
some of his stuff and dig into it if you feel you need it.
One warning: use common sense when testing out your new eye contact
superpowers on other men. While men looking at women can be a sign of sexual
interest or an open invitation, men typically challenge each others courage or
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griff the wrong dude you could end up with a .22 cap buried in your chest, so be
careful out there!

The Eyes of Seduction, and Self-Destruction

Alright then, lets have a look at a few different flavors of eye contact as
they apply to meeting and seducing women. Theres probably a million different
little nuances that are communicated with the use of the eyes and it would be
impossible to think of them all, but theres a few that Ive found useful over the
years at different phases of a relationship with a woman. Let me share some of
them with you now...
Hello... Trust Me Eyes The most important moment where proper eye
contact can either make or break you is the instant of first meeting someone.
That first moment you set eyes on each other. This is where a quick flash of
what I call hello eyes can create a first impression with some impact. In this
situation seconds count and are usually all you have to work with. So the
important thing is to capture her interest right away in that first moment and
model (very important) how you would like her to respond. Modeling is very
effective because it engages a reflex before she can analyze the situation too
carefully and decide on a different course of action.
Hello eyes express a sense of softness, friendliness and safety, they act
as an invitation to connect for a moment with a perfect stranger. Together with
just the hint of a smile that slowly grows warmer as if youre encountering an old
friend, these hello eyes can sometimes open up a girl in a flash. They signal that
you are easy to talk to and that theres little risk involved for her. Its a sociallypositive gesture that says to her trust me a form of non-verbal communication
that all women instantly recognize.
All this happens bang-bang of course... warm eyes that suggest an
appreciation of what youre looking at... a few quick look-aways here and there
just to break the tension (80-20 contact / break-ratio remember so that youre not
staring). Combined with a gentle smile thats either cool or charming, depending
on whats appropriate for a guy your age. Like thus. A quick hi and something
to make her laugh and you could be off to races just like that, you never know.
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Because your eyes told her that youre serious. And you appear
impulsively friendly to her as well. It hints at a world of fun and maybe even
makes you seem like a possible catch to her. Imagine that! Certainly it suggests
nothing weird or creepy like sneaking up behind her with a pre-rehearsed pick-up
line could.
You can bet that when people talk about great first impressions they are
usually recalling someone who made themself available psychologically by
connecting eye-to-eye, soul-to-soul in those first few seconds in which they met.
Solid, friendly eye contact is the hallmark of the self-confident person, and its
much more genuine and believable than words spoken in bravado. Thats
because its tough to brag with your eyes, but easy to display honesty if thats
what youre truly all about. Women sing about chemistry when they encounter
the right guy with the right look in his eye!
So practice your hello / trust-me eyes and stay alert for any chance to use
them immediately and without thinking each and every time you spot some
cute girl! Its a crisp and socially acceptable way to check out women for any
return interest under the guise of just being a friendly guy, a concept called pull
tabbing that Ill introduce in the next section. Just remember that your male
display is always out there with women, whether you like it or not. Learning to
use strong eye contact appropriately and reflexively wherever it serves your
interest is a certain way to make sure that your social mojo is always a highly
visible element of that display.
Who Are You? Eyes This is a look that can be effective on a second
date or at a time when you are both beginning to feel those first powerful stirrings
of attraction. Again, this stuff is hard to describe in written words, but I would
liken it to a penetrating, interested, intrigued look. This look is presented up
close and nearly face-to-face, and delivered with just the hint of a smile. A
lightness in your eyes and face really not an obvious smile. And your eyes
should appear just a tiny bit quizzical. Try to imagine all this now... the idea that
youre silently trying to get across to her is something along the lines of : Im
really considering going off the deep end with you romantically... I need to know
more about you, what youre all about, your dreams and desires, who you are...
Ive been thinking about all the possibilities with you and my imagination is
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Can you figure out how this works? Just think these thoughts genuinely
to yourself and hold them in your mind... and your eyes should transmit the
perfect package of silent feelings to her. Shell understand that you are asking for
a glimpse into her soul and if you do this at just the right time (and again, youll
just have to get a feel for when that right moment is) it can have a stunning effect.
She may very well melt into your arms and open up in that near-spiritual,
transcendent way we spoke of earlier... showing her that you are ready to take
things to the next level, to escalate (remember that idea from my last book?).
And to think you started all this commotion with just a look in your eye!
This kind of stuff can be intoxicating to women what the hell do you think
theyre reading about in those bodice-ripping romance novels they gobble up by
the truckload?
High Eyes Theres a certain point in a growing relationship where the
two of you know that you are about to fuck very soon. Maybe later that evening,
or tomorrow or this coming weekend when youre alone at your cabin. Soon.
You take both her cheeks lightly in the palm of your hands and give her a
dreamy, excited, contented look an unspoken admission that you are so digging
the fact that shes responding to your charm. Youre loving being with her, youre
loving the moment, youre loving life. You are absolutely getting high on the
whole experience! Look this into her just before you kiss her. It can create the
kind of warm feelings that should keep her heart pounding in anticipation from
this moment until you can get her clothes off.
Lust Eyes Save these for that significant moment when you are both just
about ready to tear each others clothes off... either for the first time OR the
hundredth! These are those classic half-shut eyes that you see in the movies
just as the two main characters are about to get busy in the sack. Bedroom
eyes they used to be called. Youll want to convey a sense of barely controlled
passion here with perhaps just a hint of frustration as well to make evident the
profound effect shes having on you. This look can send a chick into overdrive if
used at just the right moment.
Love Eyes Similar to the lust eyes, but with the eyes open just a tad
wider in a sort of semi-amazement. Timing of these eyes is critical... they must
happen within a minute of having had your first orgasm with her. Women watch
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their genuine feelings about her. Dont let your momentary exhaustion goof you
up here if you plan on being in this thing for a long run... you are still seducing!
Say whatever words you will, but make sure that you drill those love eyes in
deep so shes knows that its all coming from the heart. You want her to
understand that her sexual charms have staying power, and that you are not
getting ready to bolt.
Sex is addictive, especially after the build-up of dating and courting, so
youll want to do it frequently once the dam has finally broken. Think of this move
then as an investment in your next sexual encounter. You need to make sure
she doesnt get the idea that you shot away all your long-term desire along with
your sperm. This is how you turn what just happened into a sexual experience
for the two of you, rather than a mere banging event.

So there you go... eye contact hard at work from that very first hello to
God I cant believe I came so hard!... and everywhere in between. You can see
that various forms of eye contact are important all throughout the development
stages of the seduction, and later all throughout the relationship as well. The
essential idea Im putting forward here is not so much absolute technique or
timing or anything else, but the importance of using your eyes often and in
ways that speak silently to her heart. The eyes are far superior than words for
communicating romantic feelings because they are considered harder to fake and
are therefore given more weight. You can say one thing, but if your lyin eyes
are telling her something completely different shell believe what she reads in
your soul instead. Just remember that regardless of when and where, eye
contact is always pupil-to-pupil... never pupil to some other spot on the face.
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Well return to the use of proper eye contact from time to time in the
coming sections. But before leaving this subject for now, Id like to show you a
few negative ways in which eye contact can completely destroy your game or
even your likeability as a person if used incorrectly. This should all be obvious to
you by now hopefully, but theyll be good for a few laughs anyway:
Shifty Eyes Those quick darting eyes that wont lock in for more than a
split second before cutting away (10% - 90%) signify dishonesty to most people.
They can also be interpreted as fear, uncertainty, or a desire to disengage
with someone. (I sometimes use this look to deliberately chill out crackpots that
try to start nutty, incoherent conversations with me when Im trying to read the
newspaper at a restaurant counter.) Mostly though it seems like the person is
hiding something or ashamed about himself or whatever. All bad, creepy stuff.
Get this problem under control if youve got this particular disability and watch all
your social interactions improve immediately.
Squinty Eyes Otherwise known as the Kung-Fu Zen Master look
especially if you stand around with folded arms checking out the crowd like a club
bouncer. This says Im better than you, or... I can see you, but you cant see
me.... This is an anti-social look for the most part. A nice way to keep everyone
at bay. Wearing sunglasses indoors or outdoors at night is a similar move that
attempts to place a psychological shield between yourself and everyone else.
Why not just stay home?
Puppy Dog Eyes Those longing sort of desperate-for-your-attention
eyes are completely and totally unbecoming on a man under almost any
circumstance (unless youre obviously just screwing around). They say: talk to
me, Im desperate for human contact, feel sorry for me, help me, save me... and
thus positively reek of low status male stink! Men whove refined this technique
and flash their puppy dog eyes with careless abandon can be downright
embarrassing to be around. This isnt just a misuse of eye contact, its a
complete personality train wreck! Men cannot adopt the same fawning-type
attraction and mating behaviors that are the common property of women
and get away with it! Doing so will sink you to the bottom of the male status
pool and make it almost impossible to attract the romantic interest of anyone
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Serial Killer Eyes This happens when you lock-up and gaze at someone
for several seconds, without smiling. Good eye contact may be indispensable,
but its meaning is defined by whats going on with the rest of your face as well.
Whenever you catch a girls eye for instance, you must flash her a quick smile
within a half-second or so or shell misread your stare as a glare and look away
immediately. Opportunity gone. Perhaps there was or wasnt an opportunity
actually there, but youll never know now. The quick smile must become a reflex
whenever you catch an eye, otherwise a long drawn out stare can quickly devolve
into serial killer eyes.
Whenever youre out and about you want to give people the impression
that youre open to getting acquainted and easy to talk to... not like youre busy
shopping for a bag of soda lye to cover up the shallow graves in your backyard.

$
/

Alright then, a brief summation of the essential ideas that weve covered in
this section, and then its off to work on the nuts-and-bolts of meeting, dating and
sexually enchanting women.

Section Summary:
Hot Chickness is a Superpower! But not always a welcome one. Great
looking women feel psychological pressure from friends and family to use their
beauty to do something special, and maybe even spectacular, with their lives.
Some are not emotionally suited to handle these kind of expectations however,
and its this pressure that lies at the root of the problems these types of girls can
create for themselves and anyone else in their life. Because they are made to
feel a vague dissatisfaction no matter how well things are going for them, hot
women are often impatient and easily bored. This can include men which is
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fro men and therefore can be quick to reject good because their frivolousness
makes them more easily plucked away from some other guy. This crazy,
immature attitude is the price you will pay for the premium slice of pussy. So
prepare yourself.
Self-transcendence is a deep-seated psychological quality that attempts
to place a measurement on an womans tendency to either accept or reject the
possibilities of supernatural-type effects influencing her life and the lives of the
people she knows. Its a measure of how much mystical interconnectedness to
the world she feels, and therefore how much her thinking style leans towards
either the dreamy or starkly realistic.
The Transcendental Quotient attempts to assign a value to three distinct
qualities of a persons character: self-forgetfulness, transpersonal identification,
and mysticism. Understanding differences in fundamental thinking style based on
a high or low TQ, can help you in selecting a long term partner for yourself with a
personality bias that is more compatible with your own.
Handwriting analysis can help you quickly pinpoint a womans TQ with a
fair degree of accuracy. It can provide an early peek at how likely she is to match
up with your own outlook on things... or make you completely insane!
Chemistry is the most elusive x-factor in the entire universe of seduction
and certainly most difficult aspect to create on demand, but it seems to be
associated with two elements, Social Intelligence and the Nice Guy factor.
Social intelligence (commonly called street smarts) originates from
being out there experiencing all the unpredictable events that can occur in dating
hell. Social intelligence reaches a greater level of sophistication as you continue
to interact socially with others from different socio-economic classes.
Re-imagine the act of flirting as being a great compliment to women!
They love to run across a man who, when he sees something that he likes, is
captivated by the need to act on it.
Being a nice guy with a sexy edge means exhibiting characteristics
that paint you as the physically safe emotionally-challenging kind of nice
guy, not the desperate fawning type. When people get the sense that whatever
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they have a tendency to go along and play their role in your scheme. This is why
confidence is such a mega-major factor in seducing women. Confidence is
really just positive expectancy in action, and since this trait is found
abundantly among lifes winners, it also acts as a non-verbal flag for such a
personality to women!
Women Can Cheat, You Cant. In both the courting process and the
relationships that result, those Rules of Conduct which apply to men rules of
fair-play and honesty dont apply to women. A few examples:
1) The harder she works on her body and/or perfecting a certain look, the
more she feels the right to be very selective in her choice of men. Rejecting you
is her prerogative she thinks, and you simply must learn to live with it.
2) She views her ability to sexually tease the men all around her (mostly
passively, by the way in which she dresses, etc.) as a birthright. In addition, you
are to know your place and not hit on her if shes already judged you to be an
unworthy low status male! So make sure your mind-reading skills are honed
precisely, because this is how innocent guys get sexual harassment charges filed
against them in the office. HSMs have the green light, whereas LSMs get
complaints logged against them with human services.
3) Boyfriends are always on probation whether they know it or not and can
be dumped immediately if a newer model comes along. This gives every other
guy a potential shot, so dont let the imaginary she probably has a boyfriend
excuse automatically stop you. Read her cues and act when things look
promising.
The eyes are the window to the soul. In a strictly scientific sense,
humans negotiate a mating event from first encounter to orgasm by
extensive use of copulatory gazing. Effective eye contact is mostly about
knowing when and how to use the right flavor of eye contact in the
appropriate situation.
One thing that eye contact definitely is not, is staring! Good eye contact
means that youre looking into someones eyes for maybe 80% of the time, and
looking away for the remainder. This gives the person a welcome chance to
catch their psychological breath. If you look at someone 95% to 100% of the
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In terms of attractiveness, men stand in comparison to each other. To

decide if a guy is hot, women need to see how you stack up relative to the
stature and accomplishments of other men. Since we dont normally walk around
carrying a logbook of our achievements, women have to seek clues for what
might be in such an imaginary logbook in our behavior. It is in the attitude that
we carry, that our essence as men is revealed.
Proper eye contact is more than just aiming your gaze at someone, you
have to use your eyes like an instrument. You need to seek out and look
directly into the black point of the other persons pupil, nothing else is truly
eye contact. When you search out their pupils, lock-in for just a couple of beats
until you see them engage. Thats when you know youve made a solid
connection.
Keep the 80-20 Rule of Eye Contact constantly in mind: pupil-lock for
about 80% of the time, and 20% politely turned away. Always go back and reengage after a short break, thats the key to establishing a comfortable, casual
connection. Its this persistence of action over the course of time that establishes
the sense of acknowledgment that people absolutely crave.
If youre looking for a way to fake it until you make it with women, there is
one way that you actually can do so... by becoming good at eye contact! Its
the best way to signal a higher male status than quite possibly youve actually
earned, but theres no way anyone can tell the difference. This gives you an
in... a clean slate upon which to make a knockout first impression.
Hello, Trust Me Eyes convey a sense of softness, friendliness and
safety to her right away. They act as an invitation to connect with a perfect
stranger with little or no risk of rejection.
Who Are You? Eyes is a look that can be potent on a second date or
at that time in a new relationship when you are both beginning to feel those first
powerful stirrings of attraction. Theres a lightness in your eyes and face, but not
an obvious smile. And your eyes should appear just a tiny bit quizzical. You are
wondering who she is on a deep level this kind of focused interest can be very
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High Eyes Take both her cheeks lightly in the palm of your hands and
give her a dreamy, excited, contented look an unspoken admission that you
are so digging the fact that shes responding to all your romantic efforts thus far.
Lust Eyes These are the classic half-shut eyes that you see in movies
just as the two main characters are about to kiss or make love (depending on the
plot) for the first time. Save these for the moment when you are about to tear
each otherss clothes away!
Love Eyes Similar to lust eyes, but with the eyes open just a tad wider in
sort of semi-amazement. The timing of these eyes is critical they must happen
within a minute of having had your first orgasm with her. Shes checking to see
if youre finished with her now that youre, well, finished! This is the most genuine
way to communicate that you are still digging her and that you are going to be in
this thing for the long haul (provided that you actually are, of course). Use with
some caution... bad word can spread very fast if you fuck around with a womans
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ithout a doubt the toughest part of the entire process of moving from
perfect strangers to starry-eyed lovers is the initial meeting. The hours leading up
to that first date can be nerve-wracking, the minutes before first sex full of
adrenalin-pumping anxiety... but that moment of first approach? This thing can
be downright terrifying for a lot of guys. I know, Ive been there. My first book
was written almost solely to address this problem, in fact.
The thing that I found most important was having some kind of plan fixed in
the back of your head. It doesnt have to be the most incredible plan in the world
(although Ill give you a pretty good one in this section), you just have to know in
the back of your mind that when a chance comes sauntering by you at least have
something ready in the chamber. Any plan is better than no plan! Nothing is
worse than seeing a cute chick standing nearby and thinking to yourself What
should I do? What should I say? If only I knew what to say to her.... And then
she disappears and the opportunity is gone... while youre still rooted to the
ground as if youre wearing a pair of Uncle Guidos Lead Shoes.
This has to be the single moment of our lives that all of us as men hate the
most... that moment when were served up a beautiful chance by Fate only to be
exposed as completely clueless dorks when the chips are down. For all the
brave talk when the chance was finally there and the sweat started peeling over
your skull, you had nothing to say, no move, no game. No plan. You will crawl
back into the darkest corners of your mind and run that instant back a thousand
times in the next few days desperately trying to see if there was something that
you could have possibly done different or better. Hell, if you couldve done
anything at all! This is when you want to find a nice strong piece of rope and a
tall tree to hook it to.
Heres my central guiding philosophy when it comes to meeting women:
youve got to change it from something unusual (and therefore fear-producing) in
your life into something common and routine and therefore emotionally neutral.
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any more because nothing that we do routinely scares us after a while. Two
factors here: 1) stacking experiences one after another creates confidence, and
2) the brain gets fear exhaustion after a while and simply integrates the task into
its file system of ordinary everyday junk.
So I feel that the way to make approaching women less frightening is to
back down the scope of the task from picking her up to something far less
involved. Picking up a girl entails a lot of scary activities that few of us either
practice routinely or at all. Youve got to project some kind of particular gamer
attitude that they like, you have to say all the right things (whatever the hell that
is), you have to guide the conversation in a sexual/romantic direction very quickly
somehow, you have to know a smooth way to close and get her number... and
finally, you have to steel your ego for the rejection that might happen anyway!
And the farther out you hang yourself by pushing hard and fast to pick her up,
the bigger a fool you risk making of yourself if it all blows up in your face.
Holy shit... no wonders were frozen to the ground most of the time!
Rather than presenting this as the only option to yourself besides doing
nothing at all, what if you had some far less intricate and emotionally-wrenching
way to interact with any girl who happened to catch your eye... something that
wouldnt expose your Ego to a gamma ray blast of rejection if it turned out that
she had no interest in you? Something in-between complete inaction and
jumping off a risk cliff?
Instead of always going for some kind of pick-up and subjecting yourself
to all the pressure that it presents, how about as a routine you find a way to just
shop around for interest, and then escalate an encounter upwards only if you get
a positive response? Heres my thinking... rather than going full bore and
throwing all caution to the wind, approach this thing in two steps: first a tickle to
determine if theres any interest, and then a plan to go further if things look good.
The sneaky part is that your intentions are never revealed until you engage step
two. Before then it only seems like youre just a friendly ol guy and not
necessarily running a pick-up. This simple splitting-up of the routine protects your
ego because you only expose your true intentions if it begins to seem like
rejection is not a factor. You never actually intend to pick any girl up, youre just
fish around for interest. And this fishing around can be done so casually that it
doesnt even have to seem like your interested unless shes interested... first!
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Knowing how to tickle (what I call pull-tabbing) and then having a plan
opens up a world of possibilities even to the most socially inept among us
because it turns the process of interacting with women into a low pressure
nothing that shouldnt remotely stir up the kinds of tension and lockjaw that make
this entire thing an impossible mission for so many of us.
The Plan is important too, even if you only end up having to use it once out
of every 20 pull-tabs that you run. Why? Because...
Blank Mind = Doubt & Fear = Hesitation = Lost Opportunity
Remember that any kind of plan, anything, is better than no plan at all.
Lets face it, you really have to be having one of those rare perfect days where
youre just hitting on all mental cylinders in order to nail the deal just right and pull
a number out of some chick. It can be done, but what if everything isnt running
so perfect? Thats the day when youll be kicking yourself in the ass for not
having a standard plan in your head that you know so well you can run it in your
sleep. Learning to work in the real world outside the bars and clubs and singles
socials or anywhere else where you are denied the element of surprise is a key
reason why I prefer to work this way. I love it when their guard is down!
Think of all the bullshit that goes into night of clubbing... planning out the
night, where to go, how to dress, finding a wingman, trying to arrive at just the
right time, hoping you dont drink too much so you dont get another DWI, etc.,
etc. Then when you get there things get out of control anyway you meet some
friends, they start backing you up with free beers and before you know it youre
shitface and getting shot down left and right.
Even if it doesnt go this bad, all it takes is a few flubs here and there and
your confidence is all shot to shit. Then its another 4 AM drive across the lawn
and spending the next day at work choking back the puke. And even if you do
score some wench who ends up polishing your bishop after pounding three shots
of Beefeaters down her gullet, is this the kind of pig you ever want to see again?
Youll be lucky if your dick makes it home alive!
Fuck all that. Why not just run pull tabs here-there-everywhere? One time
out of every X number of chances you will catch that look in her eye... you know
the look? The look that says take a shot at me. Then you close with a smooth,
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near future. Most of the time out in the real world, this is absolute best that you
can expect to do.
Lets get real: you are not going to speak some magic words and
hypnotically mystify some chick into following you out to the parking lot and give
you a blow job behind the dumpster. Youve been watching too much of the
unrealistic shit that passes for porn nowadays.
Buy your fantasies elsewhere, Im going to give you something that can
really work for you and make a 1000% improvement in your social life.

The Mechanics of Attraction

Romantic attraction in humans is a mystery wrapped within an enigma a
complex interplay of seemingly endless ironic twists whose ravages have been
documented in sonnets and love songs through the ages. But for all its potential
to cobble together the most unlikely pairings of people with nothing apparently in
common, there is actually a crystal clear logic that underlies the workings of
attraction. Natures main goal is to pair off genetically strong individuals as often
as possible in order to keep the overall population strong and healthy. Attraction
as it translates from instinct to human thought is really all about the personal
search for this genetically healthy individual among an available member of the
opposite sex, using some strategy to advertise your own genetic advantages as
best that you possibly can.
Both men and women perform this task in similar ways by looking for
markers in members of the other sex. Markers are visual and other clues about
people that produce a sort of readout of their genetic vitality. At some point all
five senses are engaged from visual and auditory (language), through touch and
even smell. Of course, by the time you get around to taste, the fun has already
begun ;-)
The primary sense we use is vision, of course the first impression we get
of anyone happens when we see them from a short distance away. Im sure
youve heard that men are intrigued by women sporting the good old zero point
seven (0.7) hips-to-waist ratio that signals for an easy breeder a woman
whose body framework has been shown to produce successful deliveries and
fewer miscarriages. So a quick glance produces a marker for one important
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Men themselves are typically spread breeders, which means that their
greatest reproductive success comes from spreading their seed far and wide
among a variety of different women, something which society has come to frown
upon for a variety of different reasons that have mostly to do with creating a
practical social order. Women on the other hand are husband breeders, which
means their reproductive success is enhanced by cuckolding one particular male
and being regularly inseminated by just him until she becomes pregnant.
This is important because human females do not know exactly when they
go into estrus (heat), and so to improve their odds of having babies they need to
have fairly regular sex all through their menstrual cycle. They also need
resources from the male to help raise the offspring of course, as human young
are born very helpless compared to most animals and need many years of
protection before they can survive on their own. This is why they have an eye on
our status in order to get a sense of our value as providers. Of course, status
only reveals our potential to provide resources, not necessarily our willingness.
Thats why a woman needs to do further tests of trust and loyalty before she can
decide if shes really into to us for the long haul. In any event, society applauds
and supports this arrangement via marriage laws.
So it appears that as men we need only to see the 0.7 thing and were
game on! But it gets more complex than that in the real world where we seek a
more refined sense of each other before we can decide to pair off for reproductive
purposes (the only purpose Nature has for us, incidentally it has no interest in
our desire to enjoy sex as a form of play.) This means that the search for
markers continues beyond these initial visual assessments for both sexes.
One of the principle markers that both men and women seek out and
consider attractive is facial symmetry. Imagine a line drawn vertically straight
down a face splitting it right down the center of the nose. The closer each facehalf matches up to the other in terms of all the various curves and shapes
mirroring each other closely, the more eye-catching and attractive that persons
face is considered to be. A face that is misshapen asymmetrically or droops
along one side, even ever-so-slightly, is considered less attractive, plain-looking
or even ugly.
You might be wondering why symmetry is considered attractive across both
genders and throughout most cultures? Because in a strictly genetics &
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organism, human or otherwise. It takes a near perfect set of genes with no

code bugs in them to generate a lifeform with beautiful symmetry. Its a work of
organic art! Whenever we encounter exceptional facial symmetry in someone,
we instantly recognize a marker for strong, healthy genes (good stock) and we
find ourselves attracted to them... Ah, ha... now theres someone who will likely
produce strong and beautiful offspring for me if I can get my genes co-mingled
with his or hers somehow... See how this calculus works? We cant help
ourselves, were like peacocks displaying our feathers... and the more impressive
the display of symmetry, the more valuable the genes being boldly advertised!
People who display good symmetry are considered beautiful or handsome
and they tend to do well in terms of sexual satisfaction, money-making ability,
higher education, career recognition-advancement and all those other good
things that have their roots in widespread social acceptance and
normalization. Individuals with poor symmetry who are considered unattractive
experience less acceptance even from an early age, and as a result the
accumulated negative emotional burden can lead to criminal or self-destructive
behaviors. Prisons are filled with asymmetrical faces.
Another thing we look for in the face are signs of hormonal action in our
bodies that indicate sexual maturity. In men this would be things like facial hair, a
squared jawline and maybe even a small scar or a bump in the nose that signals
previous fights (to negotiate status?) with other males. Things that show off
toughness and maturity are a sign that the testosterone is pumping well in that
guy. In women we seek fuller lips and cheeks, soul-piercing eyes and other
signals that estrogen has matured the female to a level wheres shes ready to
breed. These usual signs are picked up unconsciously and within split seconds,
much like the recognition of symmetry.
As humans we seem to judge the overall attractiveness of a possible mate
with a hierarchy of factors, some of which are available to us instantly, while
others take an investment of time and investigation to fully determine. In
descending order of importance, here are what men and women are generally
looking for:
1 Healthy genetics
2 Stable personality
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Weve discussed the genetics already, which is purely physical and primal,
but humans are thinkers and that means theres more that goes into the equation.
The next one is personality stability or perhaps character is a better way to
describe it. Why do we care about this? Well, mainly because human babies
need years of care and rearing to survive we dont just drop them on the ground
and walk away reassured that theyll do just fine. Baby sharks do just fine right
out of the uterus and can hunt and feed for themselves... not so much baby
Michael (waaa...). Character in men is especially important since they are not
bound by nature to the rearing of children as the females are, they have to be
coerced somehow to stay around and contribute their time and resources.
Society has aided the womans cause by creating a legal structure of marriage
laws and other psychological pressures which compel the mans behavior
towards pair bonding, but we all know that in reality men have many different
avenues through which they can cheat and abandon their commitments.
So the woman must gather a sense of a mans character and fit it into her
decision-making process before she can consider mating with him. One of those
things she looks for are markers of intelligence. As a general rule, intelligent
people tend to be less prone to violent behavior, make more money and are more
satisfying to hang around with because their curiosity drives them to seek unique
experiences in life. Then again, theres the likelihood of passing these genes for
intelligence along to her offspring, which gives them greater competitive
advantage in a modern technological world. Another plus.
I like to think that quick-witted humor, the so-called sense of humor that
women seem to prize when describing a quality of their ideal man, is an obvious
and immediately accessible marker of intelligence for them. Thats why its useful
to display some sense of humor as soon as you can possibly work it into your
earliest conversations with her. You dont need to put on a stupid stage act, just
a flash of humor is enough to show her the marker she needs to see that easily
recognized marker for your intelligence.
Women also prize loyalty and kindness in males, but these qualities take
more time to evaluate. This is what dating is really all about, its an investigation
to gain a sense of such subtle characteristics. Loyalty is sometimes determined
by things such as a roving eye for instance, so be careful about keeping your
focus only on her when youre out and about on a date, resist ogling the passing
tail. This can be a serious deal breaker with some women especially those
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Your capacity for kindness is also evident by taking note of your web of
existing social connections with friends and family, how you interact with kids, and
maybe even how you treat your mom. It may take a few family picnics and
holiday get togethers for her to observe you in action, and so this kind of read
comes even deeper into the relationship for her. Be aware that she will be
observing you closely as these sorts of things unfold.
So its this combination of instantaneous things (first impressions) along
with those that take some time to smoke out that all get plugged into the
equations that go on in her little chickie brain. Everything begins with some
degree of immediate attraction, looks, chemistry and charm, and if shes
intrigued then expands into these other more metaphysical aspects of character
developed over the time the two of you spend together.
One final element is something thats impossible to predict or control but
very powerful I believe, and thats a deep memory match. Our memory libraries
are each distinct and highly unique, formed by the random trajectories of our lives
and the people that have passed through them. They are also unconscious to a
large degree. Im sure youve experienced people of either sex who, at a glance,
you either felt an intense like or dislike for immediately. This sense is completely
irrational and has nothing to do with their behavior. A new guy you just met at
work could seem like a really good dude, but for some reason you just dont like
him. He hasnt done anything wrong, the guy just rubs you the wrong way and
you try to avoid him whenever possible.
Well, I think that this some reason could be a deep memory pattern
match with someone from your past who you came to despise for some reason.
Maybe he resembles the schoolyard bully who used to push you around in first
grade? Or perhaps some distant uncle who tried to grab your nuts at a family
picnic back when you were 8 years old, or whatever.
Heres the thing: you may not even consciously remember these people
any more or even think about them, but the deep memory lies buried in your
unconscious mind somewhere and it is still associated with all those bad feelings
that you had for that person. This can also work the other way too and you can
have an irrational attraction for someone for the very same reason, despite the
fact that they may be all wrong for you. This is how ugly guys end up scoring

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chicks that seem way out of their league, and vice-versa. The mysteries of the
human mind run deep, and this is the gameboard upon which we have chosen to
play. So steel yourself for the sometimes highly illogical results.
The bottom line on attraction is this: there will always be factors over
which you have no control and which are impossible to overcome with
behavior alone no matter how hard you try. You can do everything textbook
perfect and lay the smoothest charm on some chick, but if you happen to make a
deep memory match with some scary creep from her past then there will always
be just something about you that turns her off. X-factors abound in the game of
attraction which can never be completely accounted for or even completely
understood. Thats why this will always remain a numbers game right to the bitter
end. Success will require a substantial reserve of stamina for the search,
determination to press on in the face of ofttimes crushing heartache and above
all a streak of idealism to keep you focused on that one special woman who you
just know is out there waiting for you somewhere.
Im going to try and grease the rails for you in this book as much as I can,
but if youve been ducking out of becoming a man and have yet to pass through
your own personal wall of flames, then get ready.

What Women Want to Hear

I searched around the net and dug up this interesting little romantic wish
list, written by some woman, of how she imagined the perfect man would act
when first meeting her. Heres a summary of what she wrote:
Be very casual and unassuming when you first approach me to
begin a conversation. But do make me understand that Im being hit
on before too long in other words, dont be so vague that I cant
figure out what youre trying to do or how Im supposed to react to it.
Put me at ease! Please, no confusing jokes or strange behaviors
that Im supposed to get. I dont know you remember... so how can
I possibly be expected to catch onto your weird humor or offbeat
style if you just hit me with it suddenly out of the clear blue?

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Keep me talking so I dont lock up! I get nervous when guys come
up to me, start chatting... and then clam up. What am I supposed to
say now?
Dont talk down to me like Im an idiot. Make me feel sexy by
feeling intelligent and youll always have a chance.
Give me an out so I dont have to reject you in a way that hurts or
embarrasses both of us. Its not what I want to do, but I might have
to... so lets make it easy on each others egos. Remember, you
started this... not me!
So there it is from the other side of the fence. Its not just us guys who are
nervous about hooking up... women are obviously just as apprehensive about it
as well. I suppose the only difference is that we get stuck wrestling with all our
fears in advance while they have to deal with being surprised by it. Also note her
anxiety about being confused by a weak or stammering approach. This sort of
puts pressure on you to know what youre doing, at least a little. Dont worry
though, most guys make this shit up as they go and do alright. Youre at least
studying a book and developing a plan for yourself!
Many of the qualities women on the make seem to be looking for are
possessed by our old friend the high status male remaining casual under
duress, keeping things light and friendly but lucid, showing respect for the fact
that shes easily embarrassed by this sort of situation, controlling her mood with
your own in a positive and upbeat way, making your possible romantic interest
clear to her, etc. Even that last item about accepting her final judgment like a
man and not flying off into a hissy fit is characteristic of a guy whos self-worth
does not hinge on a blown chance to meet a girl. The only part of any social
encounter you can grade is that part which you control, namely, your own
performance. If you give it your classiest shot, then you have nothing to be
ashamed of.
You cant get anywhere if your own heart and mind is not on your side so
dispense with the severe self-judgements. Lighten up and become dedicated to
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Complicated Pick-up Lines Kill

By almost universal social convention the man must be the one to make an
opening verbal gambit, so your first goal is to get into the habit of speaking up
when youre around cute women... no matter what! Smile and talk about the
goddamn weather if you cant think of anything else at first. Its the look in your
eye that tells her everything she needs to know about you anyway! Its okay
that you are nervous... a woman actually needs to see this reaction in order to get
a signal from you that a play is on. Your nervousness can be a powerful premating flag, so stop being ashamed to use it.
I dont like to use pre-rehearsed pick-up lines because they are too hard to
pull off in the heat of battle without completely fucking them up. Even worse, use
of a canned pick-up line makes you look like an inexperienced fool rather than the
powerful man that you should seem like when first stepping up to a woman.
Imagine trying to push one of these doozies past your quivering vocal cords:
Do you believe in irrational and self-defeating infatuation at first sight?
My names Mike... and by what name might you be called?... you shining
example of genetic perfection!
I just wanted you to know that 99% of the women who walk in that door
would kill their own mothers to look half as good as you do. (Huh?)
Good God, are you kidding me? If you can articulate any one of these
jawbreakers without sounding like youre gargling marbles then move straight to
the head of the class... acting class, that is!
The fact is theres no need to make things this difficult on yourself when
trying to meet women. They are far more impressed by what seems a
spontaneous encounter than with your ability to remember an obviously prepared
line of ridiculous nonsense. Remember what we just read about the need to
remain clear rather than trying to make her decipher some barrage of way-tooclever bullshit? Suffice to say that you should always keep your opening words
easy to remember and easy to articulate! If you dont believe me then try
actually vocalizing some of these things out loud rather than just reading them in
your head. Go ahead and study one of the pick-up lines from above and then
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you... totally bewildered. Having fun yet? Now go wipe the flop sweat off your
face before you drip all over your nice new keyboard.
Another thing about hitting her straight out of left field with a super clever
line is that it sets the bar incredibly high for you. How do you follow this stuff?
Whats the rest of your great speech going to sound like? You cant just drop
back down to hey, howz it goin?... after delivering a gem like that without
sounding double-dumb, can you?
Women actually despise pick-up lines because they figure you probably
work them on every piece of gash who walks by which implies that none of
these women are anything special to you, just another target with tits who
happened to drift through your cross hairs. It also paints you as the kind of
schmuck who views women as stupid and thus easily manipulated with hot-button
phrases a guy who feels that unless he can somehow trick a girl he doesnt
have a shot. Any type of transparent pretense like this sends a negative
message about yourself, so dont lead with this lame crap. There are better ways
to operate.

Effective Opening Comments

Rather than using clever phrases designed to hypnotize, Ive found the
most effective way to deliver an opening comment is in a playfully casual way
that makes it sound as if a spontaneous thought just popped into your head.
Make her laugh using any sort of humorous remark and watch for possible signs
of interest by seeing how much eye contact she sustains. Remember its all
about eye contact! Try to be light & bright light on your feet in the sense that
you can adjust your approach based on the feedback youre getting, and bright in
the sense of being intelligent and clever. Humor is that all-important marker of
intelligence dont forget, and attraction is all about the search for these markers.
Opening lines are actually forgettable for the most part thats why theres
no sense putting too much effort into memorizing more than one or two favorites
(something simple though, okay?). She wont fully process whatever youre
saying anyway because of the startled surprise that usually accompanies a hit
and makes her momentarily blank-out. It's what happens after those first few
opening sentences that's really important... lots of smiles and lingering eye
contact is what youre looking to exchange with her, that copulatory gaze we
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Heres a few general guidelines to keep in mind when making opening

comments to women. They should be:
Unrehearsed. Something that just popped into your head at that
moment is always the best I feel because its spontaneous.
Appearing a little nervous is okay too, preferred actually, since it
seems like youre attempting to do something that you wouldnt
ordinarily have the stones to try. This makes her feel special.
This is good.
Appropriate to your surrounding environment or the situation in
which the two of you find yourselves. Try to make it seem like you
just bumped into an old friend that you havent seen in quite some
time, without being deliberately corny about it.
Sincere. Taking a challenging posture (neg hit) with a perfect
stranger is risky. By hitting her with a put-down style remark
supposedly done as a joke youre just daring her to blow you off.
At this point she has absolutely no investment in your feelings, so
theres no motive for her to be nice to you. Unless shes just dripping
with a pissy attitude, I would avoid this as an opening tactic though
it might work better later on as a way to keep an edge on things.
Upbeat. If you mumble your words out like some nursing home gumjockey, whats she supposed to do... change your fucking diaper?
No salesman would dare deliver a muttering, uncertain sales pitch
because hes basically telling you that his product sucks. Remember
who the product is here... (you!) Keep your delivery bright!
Non-offensive sexually. This is a big one. Insecure guys like to
make sexually bold opening comments to try and paint themselves
as sexually experienced because theyre afraid their near-virgin
status will show through otherwise. It speaks just the opposite about
you though. Dudes who are really getting laid never feel like they
have to broadcast it to women. They just carry it around as a silent
vibe in the gleam of their eyes. If you insist on being so foolish, you
may as well just stay home and watch Deep Space 9 re-runs until
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I believe that if you stay within these general rules you should at least be
able to capture a womans interest for a minute or two and who knows where that
can lead. Demonstrate some positive juice with steady eye contact and possibly
even a quick touch as well, but always in a classy way on the arm or maybe
with just a lingering handshake. Humor should remain with the bounds of an
observation with an absurd twist about your surroundings or yourself, never
anything put-downish about her. Like we just discussed. Also, try not to burst out
into your full blown comedy club routine if she responds favorably, okay Shecky?

Find Yourself a Sparring Partner

So where the hell do you find available women anyway? I get this question
in my mailbox a lot. It has become a devilish problem especially for guys over 25
who are beginning to run out of the easy social access theyd once enjoyed at
school. After you leave college and enter the working world your exposure to
single women can drop radically, unless you get yourself into some career like a
fashion photography or somewhere that puts you in contact with a steady stream
of hot chicks every day.
For all you younger guys out there reading this, heed these words of
wisdom: the pond will never be more abundantly stocked with fish than it is on
campus. Not to sound like your dad or anything, but dont squander these many
chances thinking that the well will never run dry, because one day it most surely
will. Seize whatever possible social opportunities you receive by learning to say
yes to an invitation for anything any chance to go out with your buddies, to
pull a study date with some fat chick you might have no interest in (because duh,
she might have a hot roommate...). Just say yes and do it even if you think it will
suck, because fate and random chance often work in bizarre ways.
Myself, Ive always felt that the best place to meet women is anywhere and
everywhere they least expect it. Thats where all my best chances seem to have
occurred over the years. Bars and nightclubs (and to a lesser extent, gyms) are
all a tough sell for a guy like me who is not the typical intimidating male specimen
of athletic prowess. Bitch shields are also up in places where men routinely take
their best (and worst) shots at women like nightclubs. Its easier to make a cool
first impression when you catch her a little off guard. You also arent competing
with all the other guys in the bar, where you may have to worry about how you
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can be enough to fuck up your confidence sometimes.

So I would say learn to become more aware of whats going on around you
in terms of any potential chances to pull a flirt. At this stage you dont have to
actually do anything about them, just jot down what you think you observed...
(time, date, place, girl, situation) on a yellow pad when you get home later on,
and keep track of all these events. Then review your flirting logs a week or two
later and Ill bet youll be surprised at just how many possible opportunities to
work a casual flirt you might be waltzing right by absent-mindedly every day. In a
week there could be as many as 8-15 good chances depending on how many
people whiz past you every day and how big a city you live in. Even flirting
harmlessly with 8 girls a week puts you up around 100 flirts in 3 months. So what
have you been planning to do in the next 3 months that was destined to change
your dating life? This simple exercise will build your awareness.
Im trying to demonstrate that none of this needs to be a colossal task as
long as you take things casually and learn to regard flirting as a normal everyday
part of your life rather than a trip to the moon! Heres how its done.

Pull-Tabbing
You look up from your physics book and there she is... beauty shimmering
as if it were minted only that morning. You meet eyes with her for an instant, but
then look away... uncertain. For a moment, the universe itself seems to draw a
deep breath and hold it for an extra count...
Did something like this ever happen to you? Did the stars just suddenly fall
into alignment one day and boom there she was, waiting to be plucked like ripe
fruit? Not just any girl but the girl? Down in the burning pit of your stomach you
realized you had a hanging softball floating right there in front of you, but you
could only helplessly watch it go whistling on by.
I came up with the idea of pull-tabbing in response to this very sort of utter
frustration. Pull-tabbing is a way to continually keep your head in the game by
turning a terrifying action into a routine one. Its not rocket science either... just
imagine if women had pull-tabs on their foreheads like soda cans. Any time
youre curious to know what some chick might think about a guy like you, why not
just reach over, pop the tab and have a look? And if you routinely engage in
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to do the same thing with the occasional 9 or 10 who crosses your path, right?
Picking her up is only actually attempted if we get certain buy signals that Ill
describe for you in a moment.
Pull tabbing itself can be divided into three parts which escalate in intensity
as the web of interest is drawn tighter. This 3 part structure is helpful because
following it prevents you from freezing up and running out of shit to say:
1) Execute the Pull Tab and get a quick readout of
what she may think of you...
2) If theres any interest, begin to subtly communicate
that you dig her, as a man...
3) The Close: arrange some means to establish future
contact under a potentially romantic pretense...
This is the only way in which I approach women now in everyday
circumstances I just pull their tabs and see whats up with them. Sometimes I
do it just to satisfy my own curiosity with no real play in mind. Pull tabbing places
you into a hunting mode... stirring the pot a little to get some action going. Its fun
too.
For instance, a familiar pull-tab that you might already know about is the
old phoney pretense routine... pretending to need directions out on the street or
advice about an item in a store just as an excuse to strike up a conversation. Get
her laughing with an "If I ..." comment like this: "If I walk around this store any
more aimlessly, I might as well just apply for a job here. I wonder if the
commissions are any good?...." Turn the asking for help into a way to get her
giggling. The way in which she responds with laughter plus a willingness to
hold eye contact gives you your first positive signal. Hang around in the ladies
clothing section of a store and pretend to be looking for some blouse as a gift for
your sister... Well, she looks to be about the same size as you... but her hair
isnt as blond or doesnt make such sexy curls across her forehead like yours
does...
When dealing with women no matter how foxy and intimidating they may
seem always treat it playfully, never come across like a wayward beggar looking
for a savior with a grim, frightened face. This is disastrous to your male display.
Drill the idea into your head that you already enjoy a fun life and youre only
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which you will never sink. You are not ashamed to be a single guy snooping
around for a new girlfriend... so fucking what? Remember that just the very act of
taking a social risk is a major marker of a powerful HSM that can raise your stock
in a womans eyes immediately.
Trying to run a full out pick-up routine can nerve-wracking to the max.
You will burn your emotions to a crisp trying to pressure yourself into doing cold
approaches in the face of massive fear. This is the way to torture yourself with
this stuff, not have fun with it. I would rather do 20 pull tabs a day than try to run
a single cold routine on some chick out of the clear blue. Who needs that kind of
stress?
Every so often you get a nice little buy signal, and thats when you can
slide into the simple routine that Ill describe for you in a moment if you wish to.
Even if you fuck up some steps or miss a few, it wont matter just having some
kind of plan in your head rather than working with a blank mind can be enough to
get you moving and maybe all the way to the finish line. You dont have to hit a
perfect bulls-eye to leave her glowing with good feelings, a C+ will be enough to
get the job done with most anything short of Paris Hilton (and who knows?...
shes probably been taken down by a drunken D- more than a few times...).

The Instant of Recognition

Everything that goes on between men and women whenever they
encounter each other for the very first time is energized with unseen emotion and
tends to happen snap-snap, bang-bang. This is true because we each have a
large store of biased information about the opposite sex already deeplyembedded in our minds, and this pre-bias makes much of our early responses
take the form of reflexes rather than well thought-out moves. I always find that
any really great, upbeat first exchange I ever had with a women was preceded by
a brief moment of lingering eye contact which seems natural and almost
magnetic which at the very least seems to signal a significant mutual interest
and some impulse to trade a few words. If they are destined to be, this is the
launching pad from which all successful seductions seem to take flight.
You should understand the importance of smooth eye contact by now.
Remember those hello eyes I described in the last section? Meet her eyes,
smile, hold eye contact. Meet, smile, hold... boom, boom, boom... this nonverbal opening volley should happen in a single smooth motion about two

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seconds after you first catch a glimpse of her. Everything hinges on this
instant of recognition! If you break eye contact too soon, she will look away
herself and consider the encounter little more than a polite trade of smiles
between strangers. If you want it to be more than that then you have to THINK,
and you need to do it as a reflex or it will be too late. Thats why this needs to
become a lifestyle with you. If her eyes linger on yours for a few seconds after
she smiles back (assuming that she does, but most people will model back a
smile as a reflex) you have to say something immediately. If you hesitate more
than a few seconds the moment is lost.
This can be the most challenging moment in the entire process, but if you
nail this initial contact you could find yourself cruising before long as the rest of it
(dating, sexing, etc.) gets easier because that part tends to take on a life of its
own after a while. So nod a greeting if you happen to be a short distance away,
step forward and just say hi like shes an old friend. Its important to close up
any gap of more than 3 or 4 feet and get up onto the edge of her personal
space, but dont crowd her. You dont want to be shouting at her for everyone
else to hear if youre in public, but at the same time you have to respect the fact
that she doesnt know you yet so you have to engage her appropriately in a way
that demonstrates you are normal.
As soon as you can manage to, make a friendly joking comment about
something going on around you and get her laughing a bit. The idea is to place
her at ease and show her that you are harmless and friendly... thats always got
to be job #1. The look in your eye should signal interest, but certainly not the
leering glare of the pervert, right? You want to quickly establish that you are a
normal guy, not a wacko or some creep pulling a memorized pick-up routine.
Remember, theres no big high-pressure push going on here youre just
shopping for interest the way you maybe do two or three times a day with all the
cute women who happen to pass your way. The casualness is particularly
important... the more ho-hum you make doing these little innocent pull-tabs, the
smoother and more practiced you will become at them. Youre just fishing around
for anything that suggests any woman could be game. You wont necessarily be
going any further unless you get the correct signals from her, so the ego always
remains protected behind this aw-shucks friendly guy veneer.
After youve caught her attention the next thing to do is model relaxation
for her. Remember that you are the puppetmaster pulling the strings! This focus
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become still make only very slow, snake-charmer like moves. This sends a
subliminal message that you pose no threat to her. Keep one hand in a pocket,
hold eye contact casually with the barest smile and sway very slightly in a relaxed
fashion. By presenting a visual model of relaxation she will unconsciously fall into
step with you.
Ive seen women go into full pause and completely forget what they were
rushing around doing only a moment before. Snake-charming. You can even
close in on her a bit, but do it ever so slowly so that she hardly notices. Just an
invisible, shuffling forward... not too far into her personal space but right up near
the boundary where a boyfriend might be allowed. Youll have to experiment until
you find this spot, its intuitive. I can tell you that it exists, but not precisely where
its located for every woman. Some of these fine nuances in your technique may
be dependant on your own particular culture as well, so keep that in mind when
reading this and adust your moves as you see fit.
The attitude you want to project can be described as guileless I suppose
sort of open and accepting and in the moment as the New-Agers like to say.
Non-judgmental. Thats important, you should seem non-judgmental and just a
bit fascinated with her. Puppies and kittens are non-judgmental, thats why we
love them! Without become supplicant and ass-kissy (and theres no reason to
go this far) try to model this state for her and see if you cant draw her into it.
Much of this works like a form of mild hypnosis (I hate that word), and women
with a higher TQ will respond to these types of actions more readily than the
logical types will. Also, avoid acting like a wise-ass or serving up a who-gives-ashit attitude because then youll be modeling that instead, and youll likely get
the same in return!
When you first begin pull tabbing youll probably mess up here and there,
forget some of the steps, whatever. No big deal you can always withdraw
before revealing the fact that you have any heavy duty interest in her and thus
avoid serious embarrassment. This is exactly what you cant do when attempting
a full blown pick-up, which is why theyre so scary! Once you step up you have
no choice but to take a full roundhouse swing at the pitch. Yeesh.
With pull-tabbing on the other hand if youre getting a lousy read you can
just taper off your casual chat and say ta-ta and let the whole thing dissolve
away. No harm, no foul. No red face either because you are guided only by her
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nothing meaningful is going to happen. It takes two to dance this tango, after all.
Unless you push for it despite her obvious disinterest theres no possible rejection
involved and therefore no humiliation to fear. Or take a chance anyway and go
for it if you have the urge to do so. Its your judgement call, and once the
adrenaline starts to flow you may discover a reserve of courage that isnt normally
there for you. Youre a Man, do whatever you want.

Just Old Friends?

If you want to play around with this stuff a little bit, you could even try
coming onto a girl you dont know like an old friend that you havent seen in a
while. This perplexes her for a few seconds because she thinks do I know this
guy from somewhere?.. instead of ...whos this guy? Is he trying to pick me up?
You have to demonstrate some certainty in order to seem credible of course,
which might require more acting ability than you can manage. So judge
accordingly if this is something you can manage without looking foolish. The idea
is to disguise the fact that you are running a pull-tab long enough to capture her
attention before she realizes that you really dont know her. Shell just think
youre a super friendly sort of guy, which is of course what we want... friendly and
unthreatening but in a gentle, non-slobbering way that diminishes neither our
male display or mystery.
You can either continue this charade in a teasing manner to try and nudge
her into a playful state, or end it gracefully depending on how she reacts. Take
your cues from her response and feed off of what she gives you. If you say
something like Hi, its good to see you again rather than Hi, its good to see
you... shes going to think that either you mistook her for someone that you
know, or that shes forgotten who you are.
Anyway, heres how to make the GO / NO-GO read:
1) If she seems nervous or distressed...
Blame yourself for the mistake and apologize, but dont bootlick. Drop it
and move on. Say: Sorry to confuse you. You had a certain style about
you that reminded me of an old friend. It was just such a pleasant memory,
I guess I mustve blanked-out there for a moment. Turn the whole thing into
a compliment by telling her that the bright energy or classy style she displayed
reminded her of someone you once knew, a friend from the past. You just

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reacted without thinking. Be cool and laid back about it, but also impishly
pleased that your mistake ended up creating a chance to talk with her. Once
more: "I saw you there and you just reminded me of someone that I once
knew, I must'
ve just totally blanked for a second there... I'
m sorry. This is
the first time that I'
ve ever done that..." Say this with a gleam in your eye!
2) If she seems playful and curious and holds good eye contact...
Shes giving you a signal to keep the flirt going, realizing the possible false
pretense but willing to play along anyway. Be vague and teasing... who do you
think I am?... you sure about that? Keep this up for a while until it becomes
obvious that its all just a flirt, and then let it go. Dont drag it out until the whole
thing becomes annoying. Youre trying to get her into an up state so that shes
in a receptive mood remember, so when you ask for that number or a little gettogether later on shes not already pissed off at you for being such an asshole.

Reading Her Mood

Whenever pull-tabbing, one of the things I try to do is get an immediate
read on a womans mood and do my best to sync-up with it whatever that
might seem to be at the moment... upbeat or pensive, chatty / reserved, wideeyed / slo eyed, flirty / serious, etc. Matching someones mood is an effective
way to create an immediate sense of connection with them, sort of modeling in
reverse. Let them pick the tenor of the encounter and then you (puppetmaster)
simply reinforce it. One critical expression of her mood thats going to dictate
how things will ultimately go down is her willingness to talk. Its not always
possible to tell exactly what you have on your hands based on this factor alone,
but here are my best recommendations based on a lot of fieldwork:
If... she wants to talk: you could have several possibilities at work here.
Does it mean shes simply bright-eyed and interesting, or a non-stop chattyKathy type that will eventually drive you nuts? You mayve even caught a
normally shy girl in a happy moment! Who knows, but you will eventually if you
keep your radar deployed. Just let her yap until she seems to exhaust herself,
and then steer the conversation gently in the direction that you would like it to go.
If... she seems like shes untalkative: (but also seems to be signaling nonverbally with her eyes for you to keep going) then youve probably got a cautious

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thinker on your hands. This is a different kind of play... its done with very few
words and almost has to go down like a scene in a movie. You have to act out a
very sophisticated scene using lots of body language to communicate your
sudden desire for her. This has to seem like a completely unexpected turn of
events. You were just trying to be friendly and, POW!... cupid came out of the
woodwork and knocked you for a loop. Skip the small talk here, its worse than
wasted, its counterproductive. You have to let your eyes and posture and
willingness to gradually invade her personal space do your talking for you.

Signs of Female Interest

Great Eye Contact along with an engaging Smile! (always #1)...
Widened eyes and rapid blinking flash of a raised eyebrow...
Leaning towards you and deep into your personal space...
Palms of her Hands somehow presented towards you...
Lifted or curled shoulders, thrust chest, head tilted to look cute...
Nervously making any slight twirling or pivoting back-and-forth
movement on the ball of her foot or heel (shes dancing for you!)...
Shoots you any obvious I dig you signal like the slo-eyed gaze,
the deliberately-licked lips, etc. The flares dont go off any brighter!

Signs of No Interest
Refuses to hold sustained eye contact, only gives brief flashes...
Seems fidgety (but not in the good cha-cha way described above),
almost more like shed rather fall through the floor than be standing
there talking to you...
Returns nothing more than a courtesy laugh at your attempted
humor, or even stone-faces you...
Rolls her lips into a thin, tight line...
Closed posture, arms-crossed, blah-blah...
Fairly obvious and common sensical stuff, right? The main idea behind
studying things so closely is to try and get a sense of whether you are Go or NoGo before you take the plunge and reveal that youre hitting on her. You can
push forward if it looks like an interesting play may be afoot, or back away with
your dignity squeaky clean if that seems to be the better move. Your choice
you are always in control of the depth to which you run any pull tab.

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Confess Your Fear

No matter how at ease you become at doing this stuff, youll still get
nervous. Pretty girls just have that effect on us. While it might be natural, it
doesnt paint us in the best light and of course it actually embarrasses many of
us. There are various tricks and techniques for dealing with fear and anxiety
(including the NLP rubber band trick from my earlier book), but one of the
simplest is one you mayve never imagined: confess your fear. Its true. I
discovered this by complete accident when I was a sophomore in high school. I
had to get up in front of English class and give a five minute speech on any topic
of my choosing as an exercise in public speaking in order to get a passing grade.
So there was no backing out.
Being sort of shy, I was nervous as hell the day of the speech even though
I knew the subject pretty well (something about communication satellites). When
I finally got up there I was muttering along trying not to sound too nervous, when
all of a sudden my voice completely failed me and I made a very audible gulping
sound. It was horrible! I remember being both embarrassed and stunned at the
same time. But then something weird happened... from that moment on I
became dead calm. It was unbelievable how the fear just seemed to whoosh
away in an instant and I was able to deliver the rest of the speech like Id been
doing public speaking all my life. In fact, the teacher had to break-in and tell me
to wrap it up because I actually went two minutes overtime... I was having so
much fun!
When I thought back to that bizarre occurrence and tried to understand
what had happened, I realized that the GULP sound that embarrassing,
gagging choke had actually been a kind of admission to everyone in the room
that I was scared shitless to be up there talking in front of them. And the instant
I made this confession even though non-verbally the fear simply
vanished! It was an incredible revelation to me something Id never
encountered before. In fact, I remember being totally pissed-off for even
revealing that I had been afraid at all, thats how totally gone the fear was once
my confession had chased it away! I literally couldnt remember having had it in
the first place. Wow!
I decided to try and see if this trick would work on me when I was chatting
up women in a bar setting, something that always used to scare the shit out of
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in a bar, and I had no idea of what that was supposed to sound like and so I was
incredibly self-conscious about everything that I could think of to say. Everything
threatening to come out of my mouth was self-judged to be completely uncool,
humiliating garbage. I applied such ruthless self-censure that I ended up either
paralyzed to say anything at all, or when I did speak it was with this horrible
feeling that I was making a complete fool of myself. This is how I grew to hate
bars and clubs, I simply couldnt function in these environments. And drinking
only caused me to become more withdrawn and anti-social so it acted as a
reverse social lubricant for me and made things worse.
So one night out with my buddies I was making my usual faltering attempt
to talk to some girl at the bar when I just blurted out that it makes me nervous to
talk to a pretty girl for the very first time. It was horrible and I mustve looked like
a fucking deer in the headlights when I said it... but damn if I didnt go dead calm
immediately afterwards just like in front of English class that day! Its like
admitting fear openly to your own brain scares it away somehow. I then began to
talk with a natural confidence from that moment on as if she were an old friend of
mine. We gabbed for over an hour. I even felt good enough to get her phone
number (which I never was able to do back then), and we actually ended up
dating for a few months. We had some fine times together.
Over the years Ive perfected this confession thing into a quick and simple
little sentence: Whew, its kind of nerve-wracking to talk with someone for
the first time like this, isnt it? See how sneaky I say it?... I dont even really
admit that Im nervous, I just make a sort of general statement that talking to a
stranger for the first time is nerve-wracking, and leave it at that. This
announcement is made solely for the consumption of your own unconscious mind
so theres no reason to string it out or embellish it any more than you have to. If
she says something like what do you mean? then just say you know, trying to
impress someone you dont know yet really gets the old juices flowing or
something vague like that, and then just quickly change the subject and keep on
talking. Bury this line of thought by joking about it if you have to and then move
on. Hopefully youll begin to feel more calm immediately. Once the fear lets go
of you, youll notice how easy it is to make conversation in a way that presents
the strongest parts of your personality front and center. Then you can begin to
relate to women just as effortlessly as all those smooth dudes you envy at the
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I believe anyone can benefit from this strange phenomenon of openly

admitting their fear directly to the person whos making them nervous. Well, if
your head is wired up somewhat close to my own it will. Hey, theres only one
way to find out... and thats to try it for yourself and see. Go find some cute chick
today and confess your fear to her... and marvel at the tranquilizing effect it has
on your heart and soul.

Pacing the Conversation

Heres another thing to keep in mind: theres nobody holding a stopwatch
on you, so be aware not to let a situation develop where you find yourself talking
too fast. Your careless modeling will only influence her to do the same, and
before long youll both be chattering away like a pair of chipmunks! You want to
draw her down into a slower, sexier mood instead by modeling that type of
behavior for her as best you can. Women will allow themselves to be
manipulated in this very subtle manner whenever they are in the presence of an
aggressive, dominant male. This is where the process seems to run almost like
magic sometimes.
Women have an unconscious submission instinct that you can secretly
invoke simply by showing off a powerful conviction in what youre doing and
saying. Just dont slip too far down this trail and become arrogant, but otherwise
your deepening interest in her can actually become intoxicating in some way
thats hard for us to understand. Ive seen this happen and its amazing to watch
her submit to your will and let herself be swept up by your lead. Women dream
and fantasize about this stuff dont forget when they find it actually happening to
them in real life I think the romantic pre-imagery they already have in place stuns
them somehow. And the higher the TQ the more stunnable they are likely
to be. Thats why I feel its always best to just assume she has a high TQ and is
likely to respond to instinctive mating actions, at least until you are able to
determine otherwise in the future. But hell, even the low TQs will be in a playful
mood sometimes, so go for it!
Try pacing the flow of the conversation by using both the inflection of your
voice and the timing of how you dispense your words in order to lift her out of the
everyday world that may be surrounding the two of you. Talk with her, not to her.
Give her a chance to add to the conversation, let her lead it off in unknown
directions without acting like a control freak. What does the quality of her
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Sophistication around women can be subliminally communicated with the

simple body-language trick of keeping your peripheral movements slow and
poised... almost cat-like (although certainly not in the feminine sense of the
word...). Graceful, planned movements with very little wasted motion -- like
youre absolutely certain of everything that youre doing. Inhibit as many stray
body movements as you can let there be no jiggling of keys, playing with rings,
rocking the barstool or drumming of fingers. Externalize the image of being
untroubled and laid back as much as you can manage.

Custom Commenting
Custom commenting allows you to say something enticing to a woman
without sounding ass-kissy, which is the problem with many kinds of typical
compliments that makes them unsuitable to use too soon. The canned ones
especially sound like phoney lines that you must work on every broad who slides
through your field of view. And they can make you seem like a inexperienced fool
if you deliver them in a nervous, cracking voice. To hell with complimenting
make a Cool Observation & Warm Comment instead using this format...
A Cool Observation (about her style / look / manner)

A Warm Comment about it.

A comment, not a sappy compliment. Scan around for something that
looks unusual or remarkable about her, make sure its something positive, and
then make a casual, friendly comment about it. Women remember this sort of
thing. Be classy, try to pick out something that shows an appreciation for her own
unique style somehow (hairstyle, jewelry, tatoo, piercing, pet on a leash,
rollerblades, etc.). Something like this:
Those hoop earrings are cool, my sister wears them too. It
brightens a guys day to run into a woman with style.
I love the way that high-collar coat goes with your hairstyle.
Thats the kind of look I wish I saw more of.
That was a great shot (putt, break, volley). Thats the kind of

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play that inspires me to keep improving my own game.

Heres the simple format: observe something cool about her look, style
or attitude, and then make a positive comment about it. The custom
comment can change the dynamic between two people in an instant because it
reveals possible romantic interest, but without being too obvious about it. She
knows you are trying to make some kind of connection with her, and now its her
turn to pick it up and run with it (or not). If she gives you a curt thanks and fails
to make eye contact its a pretty sure sign of disinterest. But... if shes a teensy
bit intrigued, you may get a GO signal instead cute smile, a girlish blush, that
nervous dancing fidget, things of that sort.
AN IMPORTANT NOTE: Perhaps these sorts of statements may sound a
little or even a lot silly to you, but please dont make the deadly mistake that I
used to make by pre-judging your every possible word as inadequate before you
actually try them out on someone! I used to stand around in a bar and ruthlessly
pre-edit everything that I would like to say to the pretty girl standing next to me
(often signaling for me to open a conversation with her!) as being idiotic or
ignorant or uncool or whatever, rapidly in my head. I would run dozens of
seemingly too obvious or banal statements such as these through my mind and
reject them all stubbornly holding myself to impossible performance standards.
I would edit myself into complete mental exhaustion and eventually end up mute
and withdrawn.
My guts are churning with regret recalling this exercise in self-hatred even
as I write this stuff today, and so I would like to pass along this one bit of old guy
wisdom onto all you younger guys out there who are pre-thinking yourself right
out of a social life in a similar fashion: it isnt what you say to a woman thats
important, its the intent behind your saying it. She reads the intent, and
disregards the actual words. Hell, most times she doesnt even hear the friggin
words! Just remember this if nothing else:
Its a signal, not a clever speech, that youre trying to make!
I like the way the sunlight is shining off your hair, its
giving you a little halo, you say. You mean like an angel? she
flirts, but sometime angels can be worse than devils... But devils
sound like more fun, you laugh, Could I interest the devil a cup of
coffee? Sure, she says, flashing you a wicked smile.

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Many women will respond to even the slightest nice word from a stranger
like touching a burning flare to the wick of a skyrocket. Custom commenting
crosses the line of formality and begins to hint at potential desire. If things go
well at this stage, then were getting close to revealing that the hit is on which
advances the pull-tab up to the next level.
ANOTHER NOTE: Some of these newer systems for
meeting women recommend that you knock a chick off balance with
an obscure put-down a so-called neg hit. This is supposedly
necessary if shes a 7+ whos had her fill of supplicant guys kissing
her ass 24/7, and you must demonstrate above all else that you are
not this breed of desperate joker. While this neg hit might have
some merit in a nightclub setting with the super-hot model-types who
need to have their cages rattled, how many of those do you run
across every day? Most ordinary women wont appreciate a neg hit.
Many wont even understand that youre coming on to them, theyre
likely to think youre just some kind of woman-hating nut case.
Remember what she said about not wanting your approach to be so
obscure that she cant figure out what youre really doing?

Revealing the Hit

At some point during the pull tab she has to get the idea that youre actually
hitting on her. This guides the encounter on to a discrete conclusion so that you
dont end up floating in some vague limbo where shes not exactly sure what to
make of you, and you dont know what to do next. Making it clear that you are
interested in her makes it appropriate for you to inquire about getting her number
or having her accept yours. This is important because to just suddenly spring a
number grab on her at the end of an otherwise neutral conversation might seem
awkward, so youve got to hint at it beforehand and make sure she sees it
coming. The female is often compared to a feline in many ways and nowhere is
this more true than in her proclivity to be done in by her own curiosity. This gives
us a point of leverage to manipulate her feelings. She should walk away from
any successful first encounter intrigued to know more about who you are.
Remember, what she doesnt know she will tend to fill in with fantasy...
And so now we must move the conversation across some invisible line with
the intent of transforming ourselves from nobody special to an intriguing stranger.
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play... that Fate is somehow responsible for tossing the two of you together right
here, right now!
To get this mojo working for you, simply make an observation that
suggests you have some kind of intuition about her. It doesnt have to be
anything extremely clever or Nostradomus-like... where she works, common
friends, career field, etc. The important thing is to work the word feeling into
whatever you say in order to suggest that youre having some kind of sixth sense
moment with her:
"I just had a feeling that..."
we worked on the same floor...
you were from my old neighborhood...
I would bump into someone interesting wearing a red pin today, yadayada... like that. Drop the word feeling into the first part of whatever you
say to her. This can instantly intrigue most women, some more than others
depending how high their TQ happens to run, and make them experience an
immediate connection with you.
Another thing you can do is make an Irresistible Statement to deliberately
get a rise out of her. This one is my favorite because women are all paranoid
about how they appear.
You just have such an... exceptional look about you, it'
s something
Ive been on the lookout for lately."
"What kind of look? What are you talking about?", she will likely ask. You
just gaze into her eyes and smile (very slightly) but kindly. You dont have to go
into a whole dissertation about her entire appearance just an approving
comment about one aspect of her look that caught your eye, an odd piece of
jewelry, tatoo, t-shirt slogan, belly piercing, should make the point. Similar to the
whole custom commenting thing. The idea that youve been on the lookout is
designed to intrigue too. Are you some kind of photographer or artist? What
could be the deal? Let her twist some, and then explain innocently that you were
thinking about getting a salon appointment for someone like youre your sister for
her birthday so she could get a hairstyle just like yours. So where did you get
that done anyway?...
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suggests an expertise in some field... and then ask her if she teaches it.
"You look like youre into (yoga, aerobics, sculpting, ________ ), it'
s
something I always wanted to try. You don'
t teach it by any chance?"
To look so good or appear so skilled at something that you might actually
be an instructor? The compliments dont get any smoother than this my friend.
Of course, shell probably say that she doesnt. Then you just say:
Oh sorry... I just had the feeling (theres that magic word again) that
there was a little destiny at work.
Destiny?
You never know where a chance encounter with someone can lead.
An exchange like this should get her thoughts humming. Keep your
conversations with women elevated up out of the routine even if only just a little
bit. This steers you away from that boring nice guy zone where most ordinary
conversations that fail to provoke any emotion ultimately lead.
The formula for this type of dialog is simply this:
Make a provocative statement that contains
some form of gentle compliment

+
Attribute your assertion to a
sudden intuition that you had
about that person
You can also comment on a certain kind of vibe youre getting from her
which makes you think she could be into some kind of unusual occupation.
"I noticed you looking at those __________ over there, you have the
look of an artist or something. That'
s the kind of sense I have. Are you into
______ art or music?"
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You have a sense about her... youre taking a wild guess based on a feeling.
Even if your guess is way off base, the notion that you would think so is flattering
to her, so dont get tangled up overthinking everything.
Look for an opportunity to point out something that the two of you have in
common even just the experience youre both sharing at the moment can be
provocative. Admit the obvious... that youre digging this chance encounter and
would like to see something more come of it. Another form of confession, I
suppose. "Hey this is really cool bumping into you like this. Isn'
t it amazing
how pure chance works sometimes?
The big idea is to step beyond the ordinary and get her thinking differently
about you. When a hmmm, this guy is different... light pops off in her head she
may even begin to catch that first elusive whiff of chemistry. From here you can
flow directly into asking her out since by now all pretenses have been dropped
and the hit is revealed.
When you reveal that a play is on, youre also revealing a desire for
affection, so if that desire is shame-bound (see my other book Without
Embarrassment for a complete treatment of this subject) this moment is going to
pull up a lot of fear along with it. Take a deep breath and deaden your anxieties,
exhale quietly so as not to tip her off. Now deliver the following line from a place
of centered calmness:
"Well... isn'
t this something..."
"What?"
"This," you smile knowingly. Unfaltering eye contact is required here and
a lowered tonality in your voice as well. The non-verbal exchange of looks
speaks far louder than words.
Remember that seduction is a form of benevolent manipulation, and heres
where we begin steering things to our advantage. So far weve established
contact with a girl who was a perfect stranger only moments before, received a
fairly good response from our cool observation and warm comment, and have
been applying a little humorous charm to get her thinking that we're a different
sort of guy. But we're still in that grey area where she's trying to get a read on us.
Nows time to give her what I call the "smitten look". The word smitten is an old

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fashioned term that describes a feeling of sudden romantic attraction towards

someone that you've just met.
Heres how the move is executed: widen your eyes in mock surprise and
give her a holy smoke... sort of look. This is a wide-eyed look, (careful... not a
wild-eyed!), and you only flash it for a second or two, so make sure youve got
good eye contact established first or she wont see it! Then you catch yourself
and quickly get back under control. Give her a slight, knowing/devilish sort of
smile, invade her personal space with a slow tiny step forward, (her breathing
may actually halt, Ive seen it happen...), and say the following words:
You really have a great... (Pause here as if youre struggling to come
up with the right words, ... sort of... energy (or passion, vitality, etc.) about
you.
You can actually memorize this one line if you want to and practice it. Drill
it in there like a familiar song lyric. If she responds, What do you mean?, tell her
: I mean, it just struck me how cool you looked (standing, relaxing, doing
something, etc.) there, I guess youve caught me admiring...
This "youre really doing it for me" revelation has to seem like it just
unexpectedly knocked you off balance. You want her to get the idea that you did
not expect this to happen and that now youre trying to make sense of it.
Do not underestimate the effect your being suddenly smitten can have on
a girl. Its a knockout compliment of the highest order, the sort of stuff she will
remember forever. A cleanly executed first impression can carry you for a lifetime
with the fond memories it conjures in her heart. I think its fun to mess with
women in this manner... imagine how infrequently a guy makes a play this
smooth on any girl out there. Most women will never experience such a smooth
hit in their lives! Why do you think theyre glued to those shitty soap operas all
day long?

Now, Make a Smooth Recovery

Alright then, lets review. We: 1) invaded her personal space and gave her
the deep look (copulatory gaze) -- 2) made a sexy comment about how she has
great energy and how silly ol me got caught up admiring it -- 3) then we backedoff so she doesn't get overwhelmed. The idea is to let her know that you dig her

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without coming on so strongly that you scare her off. Balance is important
here... you want to communicate your sudden romantic buzz, but do so without
going overboard just for the sake of being dramatic.
Perhaps you think the gentlemanly thing to do is to try and protect her
from all this romantic high anxiety, but I've got news for you... life is full of anxiety
and she loves it! Unlike us emotion-evading guys, women live for this kind of
heart-stopping stuff, so don't worry about being responsible for causing a little
anxiety to come into her life. She'll thank you for it in a few weeks after you've
given her 3 monster orgasms in a row! (refer to Part 5 please...)
Its these quick bing-bang sort of moments that will really imprint
themselves in her mind forever. If you pull it off smoothly, shell be reminiscing
that there was just something about you when she excitedly tells all her friends
about it later on that night on the phone.

Set Her Up for the Close

Closing is all about getting a woman into an upbeat and happy mood, and
then striking when the iron is hot... meaning, NOW!
Her regard of you as a cute-clever-nice-sexy guy will never be higher than
at this moment. This is the climactic point when whatever good vibes have been
building up need to be exploited. Observe her closely... does she look like shes
anticipating your next move with some excitement, or is she getting ready to cut
and run? Is there a longing in her eyes, or a get me out of here! look of terror?
Youre the one who will have to decide if youve got a play available or not, and all
you can do is use your best judgement here. This is not an exact science by any
means so you can still get a pie in the face even if every signal looks like a GO.
Dont ever forget that were dealing with frivolous women, and thus the
uncertainties abound. Everything Im teaching you here improves your chances,
but ultimately guarantees nothing.
Women have a fear reflex just like guys do which makes them jump to a
no a self-protective response when they really may have wanted to say yes
if they were only given some time to think about it even just a few seconds.
You next job is to serve up those few seconds for her, and you do this by
splitting the question. Give her a little advance peek at whats coming so that
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splitting the question into two parts, and make her ask for the second half! Neat
trick, you say? Well sort of but it is one that will require maximum verbal control
on your part.
Splitting the question is done by starting to ask the question and then
pausing until she cracks and demands to hear the rest of what youre about to
say. If you worked things correctly up to this point got her laughing and
connected and pulled the Suddenly Smitten trick and all shell know that you
mean business if nothing else. So when asking for her number you should split
the question like this: Look, I know this might seem a little off the wall for
me to be asking you... At this point, pause as if youre uncertain how to finish
the sentence. The key to this technique is to hang the question in the air and
leave it there until she grabs for it.
Now comes your First Big Test of Wills! Stare into her eyes and say
nothing until you hear her say, What?
In a situation where youre dealing with a perfect stranger, you simply cant
know what the status of their love life might be... unless you ask. Splitting the
question is the fastest way to smoke out if a woman has a boyfriend or husband,
and is therefore probably (although not certainly) unwilling to hook up. By letting
her see it coming, she will stop you if she isnt going to be able to entertain your
offer. Shell let you down with what amounts to a soft rejection usually by quickly
mentioning something about her boyfriend or husband before you can even finish
the question. This creates a decision point you can either take the hint and bow
out or ignore this initial resistance and ask her out anyway. You can try reading
signs until the cows come home but ultimately none of this is science so if you
want to go with your gut instincts then by all means do it!
Anyway, lets assume she cant take the silence any more, cracks first, and
asks you What?. You then say:
Well... you seem really cool. Id like to give you a call or meet you for
lunch sometime very soon. (ANOTHER PAUSE) do you think that would be
possible? Now comes your second big test of wills... you must once again
shut the hell up and let her be the first one to speak! Do not keep embellishing
the offer like a sweaty used car salesman trying to cover up butchered collision
work. She gets it... youve made your pitch she must now decide!

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The pressure on both of you can be substantial at this point. This is where
the men stay calm and the wimps start chattering to fill the dead air. This is NOT
the place to start acting like Woody Allen on crystal meth! Let her answer yes or
no, and then proceed to the next step of card sharking that Ill explain in moment
if you get a positive response. If not, then withdraw gracefully with a ...too bad,
its been delightful chatting with you. Take care. Like that. Stay classy and
dont give in to anger and start acting like a 5 year old who didnt get his way.
This will only confirm for her that she made the correct choice by rejecting you.
Preserving your dignity is important for the next time remember. If you know you
can dive in deep like this and still escape unharmed, your confidence will remain
intact and fear wont be able to derail you in the future so easily. This is
extremely important because this game is not won by smashing home runs over
the fence every time youre at bat, but rather by poking in singles and doubles inbetween a lot of strikeouts. Once you become too scared to step up to the plate
though, youre dead.
This is how people meet and hook-up in the real world. A little chance
taken here, a flirt there. And some plain old desire to keep you moving forward in
the face of uncertainty. No big words, no fancy jawbreaker pick-up lines to
choke on. Just a pull tab now and then plus a willingness to escalate on a good
signal in order to keep things going.

Card Sharking
Now its time to wrap things up. Theres two ways to go at this point: try
for contact information so you can get in touch with her again, or try to entice her
into doing something with you right now. Which one you offer all depends on the
situation that youre in. Pull-tabbing at the supermarket, you both are probably
doing chores and so its probably best to shoot for future contact info. At work,
there might be an opportunity to take her somewhere nearby for lunch besides
the crummy old company cafeteria. Use your head and adapt accordingly. I can
only give you guidelines, but you ultimately have to design your own specific path
to each seduction.
Its a smart idea to always have some standard thing to do hanging
around in the back of your mind so you wont draw a total blank in a situation like
this. It can be anything from a nearby place to go for coffee to something as
elaborate as a complete night on the town. Whatever you do, figure the whole
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over again until the words come out polished and smooth. This way, when youre
face-to-face with some doe-eyed smokin hottie, at least youll be able to spit out
something halfway intelligent, even if its by rote. Make your unconscious mind
do as much of the work as possible by pre-installing intellectual software. You
may even want to come up with two things, or even think up something related to
the particular area that youre in, a lounge or a coffee shop close by. The idea is
to use your wits and pre-plan as much of this stuff in advance so that you dont
have to jump through mental hoops of fire when the emotional bullets are
whizzing overhead!
"You seem really interesting, I would like to get to know you. Would
you like to go get some (coffee, a drink, lunch...) right now?" You can make
your pitch more specific (and make yourself seem more sophisticated in the
process) by dropping names: How about I take you over to the Anchor Bar
for lunch tomorrow, Ill treat you to a dish of the best Buffalo Wings on
earth. What do you say? When brainstorming up ideas for your standard
thing to do, including extra enticements like a dish of the best Buffalo Wings on
earth can make you come off as more cosmopolitan. If you dont know of
anything special that goes on in the places that you would like to suggest then get
your ass over there and investigate! It will make you seem more worldly if you
appear to have specific knowledge about a particular bistro, restaurant, bookstore
caf or club. Find out something unique about the place (a menu item, a special
hidden shelf of rare books at the nearby independent book store, etc.) and
include that in your pitch.
Or you can go for her number for later. But try to pin her down on
something right then and there because otherwise women can blow you off with a
general yeah sure kind of response and asking them to make some kind of
actual commitment, even a small one, will smoke out the liars. Say something
like: "You know, people can be pretty hard to get a hold of sometimes. Why
don'
t we set up a time and a place right now? How does [time] and [place]
for about an hour work for you?" Then shutup and let her answer. If she
wont commit then get her number anyway, but know that this could be a low
percentage shot. If a chick digs you she knows immediately (remember
chemistry?) and will agree to a specific time and place in the near future
because she trusts her feelings more than reason at moments like these.
And heres an attitude tip: you should always come across like a guy who
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the vibe that suggests you already have an interesting and fulfilling social life...
and would she like to hop aboard for a ride? Women want to be appreciated by
guys whom they sense are a "catch" not by some lifeless numb-nuts or leering
old bastard with snots running out of his nose. If a woman thinks your day
consists of endless daydreaming about getting laid by all the passing "10's", she's
not going to consider you anything but creepy. You are the worst sort of loser
she wants nothing to do with. What will make her think you're interesting is if she
finds that she's going to have to work for you. Even in this particular situation
where you are asking for the sale, youve still got to project this type of attitude
that you are valuable and worth becoming involved with. It will double your odds
of success.

Get that Inkjet Ready To Go!

To facilitate the smooth trading of contact information, you should always
be prepared with two things upon your person at all times: a 1) a custom-made
Me Card, and 2) a stubby pencil (about 2" long). Dont lug around a fancy flair
pen because it suggests youre a number-collecting loser, whereas a half pencil
makes no particular such negative impression. Its just some junk that happened
to be in your pocket. Get it? Heres a sample dialog when presenting the card:
"I'
m just fascinated to have met you like this. Could I give you my card? It
would be great to meet you for lunch or maybe just a cup of coffee
sometime soon." Smooth and simple.
So whats a Me Card? Its a small personal-sized business card that you
make up on your own, which therefore gives you complete control over what
information goes on it. Ill show you the exact format to use when designing
yours in a moment. In a pinch you could hand her your company-issued
business card I suppose, but these things are as dry as desert dirt and they dont
really cook up any juice. Plus, there could be information on there (like your work
number!) that you dont want her to know about just yet. Better to crank out a few
Me Cards instead and control who knows what about you.
The big idea behind the Me Card is to create a custom communication
tool that is uniquely enticing to women because it gives you a chance to show off
your stuff in a way that gives you: 1) an instant boost of credibility, and 2) an
exciting thing to do on a first date! Theres two main goals here: introduce some
hobby or skill that youre good at, and present it in a way that suggests you
teach it. You dont just participate in this sport or hobby you give private

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lessons or are a personal instructor of some kind!

For instance, suppose you enjoy sailboating, and you own a small boat.
So, make up a simple card like the one shown below that proclaims you give
sailboating lessons! Naturally, you dont hand these away to just anyone, but
only to those cute women whove responded favorably to a pull tab. She reads it
and wonders Hmmm, you know how to sail? You say sure, and oh by the way
would she like to go out for a free lesson this Saturday afternoon?
BINGO!... youve got yourself a fascinating and unique first date! Plus its
an action date the importance of which well discuss completely in the next
section. (For now just remember that action = passion.) And since this is
something that you like to do and are competent about doing, you will be at your
best and sexiest showing off a cool skill that youre both comfortable and
confident about. Perfect!... Move over James Bond!

Capt. Mike Quint

111-5555 (Cell)
777-8978 (Work)
564-9876 (Home)

Navigating & Steering

Rigging & Tacking
Shark Hunting

You can whip up Me Cards for yourself by printing them out on special 10up card stock right from your own printer. A few bucks spent over at OfficeMax or
Office Depot for the actual pre-cut business card stock puts you in business. I
use the Avery 8371 style pre-perforated cards, and I layout the text and graphics
using WordPerfect. Theres 25 sheets in a pack and you can print out 10 cards
per sheet. Your dick will fall off before you can hand out 250 cards.
Proving that I practice my own crazy ideas, heres an example of my very
own Me Card. Whats my big thing in life that Im interested in? Well, Im a
writer. Freelance and internet self-published which is hardly Random House
certified but so what? Emphasize the good stuff and sweep all those,

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ahem, minor details under the rug. So I churn these little babies out in
bunches thusly:

Just look what a little chunk of 2x3 card stock accomplishes for me: it acts
like a personal advertisement for a potentially impressive skill that I have, gives
out my full name and however many different phone numbers that I want to, plus
my e-mail address. Everything she could possibly need to get in touch with me
and its not goofy like some lame-o singles dating card (puke!). In addition, I
can tweak the truth or just flat out lie like a fucking dog if I want to! Notice how it
says I write childrens books? Although I suspect I could probably write one of
those things with my bare feet on the keyboard (sEee dicKK rrun...) I never
actually attempted one, but why let her know that? Oh, you write childrens
books too, how sweet... Yep thats me! Also notice that theres no mention of
my website address on the card? Its not a good idea to let on to the women that
Im trying to meet that I write books about trying to meet women!
Finally, you can use the back of a Me Card to conveniently write down her
information for yourself by using your little 2" pencil stub. You know, the one you
always carry around in your breast pocket?
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opportunity to add some intrigue to yourself by teasing her with the answer. Its
okay to puff up and embellish the story to make yourself into an expert, but don't
break into a half-hour dissertation about what a wonderful sewer pipe layer you
are. Hold back some friggin mystery!
And if you happen to be amature gentleman reading this, theres no need
to get stupid and make up cards that proclaim you to be the worlds best
snowboarding instructor. For instance, maybe you like to build furniture or do
woodworking in your basement shop, maybe just as a hobby. Youre pretty good
at it... so toot your friggin horn! A Me Card for you might look like this:

Jim Skinnedknucles
555-3498 (Work)
911-5555 (Cell)
555-7685 (Home)
[email protected]

Custom Cabinetry
Kitchen Remodeling
Patios & Decks

Help!... I cant stop myself! These things are like taking a dump... here
comes another one:

Benny Sweetleaf
111-5555 (Cell)
Sativa / Indica
(Forget it narcs, its
Sinsemilla
a hacked number)
Custom Clones
[email protected]

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Hey dont laugh, Ill bet this would work at a Phish concert. Just have them
printed on cards that look like e-z-Wider papers and pass em out!
What if youre a garbage man or a dishwasher? Who cares?... Im sure
you can come up with something thats speaks more to some passion in your life
rather than the shitty job that you happen to make a living at. Maybe you like to
custom airbrush motorcycle gas tanks as a part-time hobby, or volunteer your
spare time at the local zoo to help hose down the baby hippos. Women dig this
sort of thing... it means you have a goddamn life! So proclaim it proudly this is
all part of your Male Display, your peacock feathers. Dont be afraid to show
them off.

Phone vs. E-Mail

There are generally two types of contact information you can get from
people nowadays, a phone number or an e-mail address (which includes all these
various other channels like chat ID, MySpace, AOL buddy lists, etc.). The phone
is always better because it allows a more personal interaction (although its never
as good as seeing her face-to-face, remember that), but there is more reluctance
for a woman to give this information out. The e-mail is easier to pull, but its only
marginally useful. E-mail is far simpler for her to manage than having to deal with
your persistent phone calls. E-mails are also easy to delete if your messages
come across as uninspiring or if you start to pester her too much. In addition,
women like to bait guys into revealing too much about themselves with backand-forth e-mail exchanges, and this almost always ends up with you finding a
way to put your foot in your mouth and blow the whole deal.
So if you go for the phone number first and she seems reluctant, you can
always accept an e-mail as a backup since its better than nothing. If however,
you ask for the e-mail first and dont get it, then asking for her phone number
seems like an intrusion. But if you try for the safer e-mail and get it, then youre
left wondering if you couldve gotten the phone number instead. Now it seems
rude to ask. So my rule is to go for the phone number first and then the email as a backup play if you cant get it... not the other way around. (Whew,
man was that confusing...)
Anyway, after you get her contact info look her in the eye and say
something like: This is great, Ill be looking forward to seeing you soon,
Ann. Im sure itll be fun, see you then. And then get the hell out of there!

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Especially if youre in a bar or party, dont let her watch you hanging around
hitting on other women use your friggin head! This isnt a contest to see how
many cards you can pass out like some slimy lawyer at a wheelchair convention
youll have enough work just reeling in the one thats been nibbling at your hook.
Beware also of falling into continuing happy chat after the deal is complete
because this diminishes your male mystery. Most people only want what they
cant have, and you can easily tap into this bit of reverse human nature with a
little forethought. Make yourself seem scarce. Mysterious exits will get her
dreaming about you and building you up in her mind in preparation for your
next encounter. This primes her for that all-important first phone call, which well
discuss in the next section on Dating Her.

Meeting Women in Bars and Clubs

Bars and Clubs are tough. As far as seduction is concerned, they are not
part of the normal world where many of the regular social techniques that I just
described for you are operant. The women look extra hot and are densely
concentrated in one big room, but thats where the advantages over ordinary life
end for most of us. Everybody has their eyes and their dreams focused on the
top 20% of the hottest bodies moving around them like sleek, beautiful animals
(and this goes for both the men and the women).
Because of this understandable fantasy phenomenon, the rest of us look
lessened and low quality in their shadow. For instance, if you happen to have
the male disease of shortness like I do, you will seem even shorter and perhaps
even comical standing beside the towering muscular Sven or his rap star lookalike buddy at the nightclub. Its an environment that requires a thick skin for
rejection if you happen to strike an average pose, is all Im saying. Girls who
would otherwise pick up a flirt in a grocery store isle will reject you in a heartbeat
simply for failing to make that top 20% cut. This means its damn hard to get a
viewing, much less a hearing, from most of the women! So you can look but dont
touch. Frustration avenue.
So here's 4 important things to know about working in bars and clubs:
1) You always have to OPEN strong with a dramatic, playful flirt...
something like "Hey baby, you looked really smokin' out there on the dance floor!
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appearance), it's great! Your delivery should be big and grand and done with a
jocular demeanor. A meek little "Hi my name is Joe..." will be completely ignored.
You just wont show up on her radar giving off personality power this weak.
Extroverts do much better than introverts in this environment because they just
naturally take to the whole dancing-drinking-romancing thing like a fish to water.
In many social situations introverts tend to turtle up and become cautious, and
this behavior will make you invisible!
The bar / club scene demands that you participate in the culture of what I
call the 3-Ds... dancing, dressing and displaying of attitude. You know what
Im talking about here and if you dont then you need to visit a few of these places
and observe the dynamics going on for yourself. Guys who play the part
expected of them by the foxy bar-queens that populate these places do the best.
Whereas guys who stand around and watch, well... they stand around and watch.
If these kinds of behaviors dont come natural to you, then youll have to learn
how to playact your way into this mindset because its the only way that youll
have any sort of reasonable success-to-rejection ratio.
Get into the habit of frequenting some of the best places near you. Watch
and study the players who see to always have women buzzing around them.
These guys did not simply show up one day and rule the roost they paid their
dues by spending many evenings dancing and drinking, flirting and getting shot
down, staying at it until they made a few breakthroughs... and finally making
some friends of a feather. This doesnt happen overnight. It takes a
commitment of time and money... cover fees, hot clothes, bar tabs, etc. These
do not come cheap. It takes a determination to want to bury yourself deep down
into this scene, and thats why extroverts excel at it because they seek this stuff
out anyway. They are hooked into all the people who make up their reality. This
type of guys social connectivity and ability to network gives him an in with an
ever-expanding group of desirable women.
Into this strange world steps the introvert. This club cosmos is completely
alien to him and he understands few of the customs of the local natives. His own
favorite world is mostly an internal mental one and so he spends more of his
spare time thinking rather than interacting with other people. This means his first
and most powerful instinct is to stand around and watch and puzzle over what
sort of conversations everyone else seems to be happily engaged in. This
meditative bias is completely at odds with the prevailing culture that values action
and movement, and it makes him more or less socially inconspicuous.

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See what Im getting at? A withdrawn demeanor is simply worthless here,

and you will just end up quietly staring at all the activity and participating in very
little of it yourself. Action is the key to the club scene... dancing, joking, touching,
hugging. Ill describe later how your first date with a woman should always be
characterized by action of some sort as well, but Ill give you an insight into the
rationale behind this right now.
They did some neurological studies of human emotional responses which I
read about recently and the researchers established what many are now calling a
rather eye-opening cognitive link between fear and sexual arousal. The fact is,
these two emotional states are directly related in such a way that invoking one
provokes a near automatic appearance of the other. Fear and arousal. This
process can run back and forth both ways. For instance, many of us are familiar
with the nerves and anxieties (fear) associated with having sex, especially with
someone for the first time. Well, it seems that if you turn this around and create a
little bit of fear, you can draw up a certain degree of sexual arousal almost
against someones will, kind of like a conditioned response.
Perhaps this finally explains the allure of the bad boy?... a guy whos out on
the edge so that he seems dangerous on some level and that whiff of danger is
what turns women on. In a similar fashion, maybe all the action involved in the
club scene, the dancing and drunken groping, simulates a form of danger that
gets those sexual circuits provoked? The extent and degree to which this
happens is probably debatable, but something is happening you can see
evidence in how hot and bothered many of the women in this environment seem
to be.
One last point... the motives of women in nightclubs is not always the same
as that of the men, who are basically either trying to meet some hot bitch or get
laid that night. Many of the women are perfectly happy to tease men and get
their rocks off on all the slobbering male attention instead. This does it for them
somehow. They drink this psychological goo up like sweet honey and the more
determined they are to make a spectacle of themselves the more certain you can
be this is what theyre probably all about. Only the top players who are deep into
the culture have a shot at these type of sexy airheads.
Outside the club, many girls sport completely different personalities, which
is why I say its best to try and meet them where they least expect it in everyday
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big pile for you to ogle and hit on, whereas the opportunities are certainly far
fewer and of a lower quality in real life. This means you need patience. For
those of you with limited patience, or who feel that there arent enough
opportunities available in your daily life to effectively pull tab, then the clubs are
probably your better option. Just understand these major differences and adapt
to them. If you cant get into all the hoppin and boppin, high-energy aspect of it,
then maybe those quieter corner bars might be a better bet for you. The only
problem is that these too can present only a limited number of regular bar floozies
after a while, and when they lose their charm where do you go? To the next bar
down the street, I suppose.
The bottom line is that every venue for meeting women has its good and
bad side, youll have to decide what fits your temperament best and design your
working strategy around it. Anyway...
2) You need to have excellent non-verbal communication skills. Why?
Because most of these places are so loud you can barely hear yourself fucking
think much less communicate! Typical club music booms along at volume levels
that will make your internal organs shudder, so if the strongest part of your game
revolves around youre brilliant conversational skills you wont get to display much
of your talent here. In fact, you will just suck and melt away into the wallpaper
before too long.
Communication in clubs consists of a lot of long looks, touching and
groping, making out, staring into each others eyes... in other words, a lot of
physical stuff. Next time youre out at one of these places just watch how much
of this is going on. You might be surprised. It takes a willingness to dive head
first into this mode and get bold with your hands with women you hardly know.
Does this sort of behavior fit your temperament? Can you grease up with a few
shots of Ol Grandad and get into it the spirit of things even if youre normally a
big puss in this regard? Remember that were not talking about reality here, but
rather the strange universe of club reality. There are a lot of other annoying
dynamics going on as well, like the hot chick whos surrounded by her entourage
of cock-blocking fat fuck friends that you somehow have to blast your way
through, etc. Shit like this gets pretty damn tiresome after a while, and it
eventually drove me away from the whole scene. But I do remember all the
frustrations of trying to chat up women with words alone. It was impossible to get
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So gear-up to get non-verbal with em!

3) Watch her eyes! The eyes tell the tale, and they tell it immediately.
If you get good eye contact and she picks up your flirt then you have a shot. If
she won't even bother to meet your eye when youre trying to talk to her, then I
would suggest you bail out immediately. She's a Queen who's not interested in
you for whatever reason, probably because she doesnt recognize you as being
in her particular club clique. Youre not a full time player you see... just a poor
amateur looking for a few thrills. Pushing further is likely to draw a more
publically humiliating rejection than anyone should have to suffer (like I did
several times). So you should be ready to sort through women fast in this
environment. Speaking of which...
4) Everything is time-compressed in the Nightclub Universe.
Someone get Einstein on the Twilight Zone phone-to-the-deceased, I think we
found a crack in the cosmic egg of Relativity!
In the Nightclub, time is accelerated beyond the normal, and events speed
up. There's no messing around pulling phone numbers after long, sunny
conversations. Clubworld is all about ACTION and moving around and letting the
DJ put you in a trance. Its about styling like a peacock and dancing and 3AM
blowjobs in the parking lot. I cant imagine trying to card-shark in one of these
places... Dude, little miss club junkie gasps, do you think Im going to fuckin
call you? How like, totally lame! I never actually tried C-Sharking in a club. You
can capture numbers, but only straight into a cellphone memory or your
Blackberry or by using some hi-tech gizmo like that. This kind of techie-style
grants an exception. All in all however, this is not a venue for meeting women
with the idea of dating them in the future it's all about TONIGHT! Thats why
lots of touching, flirting, sexual innuendo are in order. The women are there to
get fired up and excited and have some kind of adventure that evening. This
could mean anything from a hair-ripping catfight with some other nasty bitch to
getting porked by dreamy Mr. Disco. They are certainly not there to meet nice
guys for later dating. If thats who you are then you can just go home now.
But... if you can learn how to take on a "club-face" for yourself dance,
circulate, get gossiped about by the women, become recognized as a familiar
face, etc. then you can thrive in these environs. Youll have to train yourself to
compete against all the other top dog males just like an athletic event, so get
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A Fictional Example of Pull-Tabbing

By now you must be thinking, aw hell... Im never gonna be able to
remember all this shit.... And I can hardly blame you upon re-reading this
section I agree that it serves up a lot of mental grub to digest. You need to
remember though that these actual dialogs happen bang-bang-bang and take far
less time to happen in real life than they do to describe on a written page. When
you add in the fact that there are more options available than you can possibly
use on any single encounter, I can see why you might be feeling overwhelmed by
now.
Since weve already got one famous Guru of Ginch out there serving up
perplexing dialogs that would be a challenge for the Rainman to remember, Ill try
to simplify things for you with a sample of the types of ordinary dialogs that Ive
found typically occur during a run-of-the-mill pull tab. Youve still got a long way
to go before any seduction can be considered complete, but an ability to
effectively meet women in a way that creates some juice sets the table for the
following steps of Dating and Sexing and makes everything else possible. So its
important for you to comprehend this part thoroughly. Remember that a standard
mate-hunting routine is one of those seven necessary skills you should cultivate
as a man. Pull tabbing provides you with a simple, repeatable set of guidelines
for implementing that routine.
The following is an example of a pull-tab that goes straight out of the
ballpark. They dont all go like this of course, hell, 75% of them usually go
nowhere at all -- but theyre so easy to do that it should be no skin off your ass to
waltz around all day long doing pull-tabs here, there and everywhere. The
hardest part is just getting started and remembering to jump on the first few
opportunities that you see. Read and learn the steps, memorize the flow (Ill give
you a quick summary later to help move you up the learning curve) and then just
try a few. Start small with fuggly women you dont really care about or who dont
intimidate you, and work your way up the scale as your confidence grows. I
started out as a complete retard at pull-tabbing, but now Im pretty good at them
and its been my most important tool for keeping my social life supplied with an
endless stream of cute little options.
(During the following teaching story, my own silent thoughts that
accompany the first person spoken dialogs are placed in italics). Also, Ive
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Another afternoon at the mall bumping along the crowded main walkway,
looking at nothing in particular except all the delightful female scenery. I decide
that maybe I'll check out a few CD's at Media Play. On my way there I pass by
the 4-5-6, a dress shop for petite women where Im stopped by the sight of a
sweet little fox flipping through some skirts on a 20% OFF rack. I wonder what
the deal is with her? Nice tight wispy bod, really fem looking. To pull-tab or not
to? What the hell... itll only take a second to see if she would have even the
slightest interest in a guy like me. You never know.
So I duck into the store and pretend to be looking around for something a
fish caught way out of my element for sure. And then the doubts begin to crowd
my brain... I'm doomed... I don't know shit about anything in here! A chick this
fine must have a boyfriend anyway. I don't see a wedding band, so I guess shes
not married anyway. Tick, tick, tick... don't think about this too long or you can
forget about it... When your mind is racing what do you I do?... Start talking!
Its like coming up to a tall fence. To force yourself to climb it, just toss
your cap over to the other side. Then youll have to go and get it!
Quickly, before I completely puss out...
"Hi there." I smiled, uncertainly. Yeesh. I must look like a lost child...
"Hi," she said, looking up at me with the most perfect aqua eyes. Deep
breath now, drawn carefully so she doesnt notice...
"I was wondering if you would know where I could find a sundress in this
store? If I don't find the perfect birthday gift for my sister this time around, my
reputation as the family's black sheep will be sealed," I laughed. Notice the If I
opening? This always leads smoothly into any sort of little joke to get her
laughing and break the tension.
"Black sheep? What have you done to deserve it?" She giggled. A good
sign so far. And shes looking right at me too...
"It wasn't me. It was always my twin brother. I was framed by him, it's

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really an ugly situation." She laughed more freely this time, how about that! "My
name's Mike. And you?"
"Sharon. So you're looking for a dress for your sister?" she wondered with
some amused suspicion. Teasing?
"Do I seem like a liar?" I teased back.
"Well, you are the black sheep."
"Remember I was framed."
"Oh that's right. In that case I guess I can help out. What size is your
sister?"
"A little bigger than you maybe, same height though."
"There's some sun dresses right over there," she pointed, "You walked
right past them."
I leaned towards her a bit, closing into her personal space. She held her
ground (good sign). "Truthfully I wouldn't know a sun dress from burkka, I said,
And if I walk around this store any more aimlessly I might as well just apply for a
job here. I wonder if the sales commissions are any good?...." I stepped back just
a bit, returning some of her space to her, but not all of it.
She giggled again and led me over to the rack of the sun dresses that I'd
been "looking for." Cripes, I didn't even have a sister! Now what?
"Hey look, I really appreciate your taking a moment to help me out, I'm glad
I bumped into you," I told her.
No problem.
"You know, when I first saw you, you had a certain style about you that
reminded me of an old friend. It was just such a pleasant memory, I guess I
must've blanked-out there for a moment."
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"Just the way you were looking at those clothes. Doing that little thing...
feeling the cloth with your two fingers going in little circles like that." I was staring
right into her eyes and babbling away with this nonsense. Man-o-man...
"Really?
Holding solid eye contact now, I edged forward into her space again.
"It's just that, I could tell that you really had..." I lowered my voice,
"discerning taste", I nearly growled.
"Oooooh, big word." Her mouth sounded dry.
I guess you just caught me admiring, sorry..." a little wink and smile. "Hey
it brightens a guy's day to run into a woman with style," I added quickly.
"These are flannel robes Im over here looking at. Still like my style?
Alright, flannel... all fluffy and sexy, nice." I said, using my best leading
man voice.
She laughed. "Nice try!" She was digging this flirt. Hey if this isnt a Go
signal then what the hell is?
"So... what's her favorite color?"
Whose color?
Your sister.
"Right! Ah, red. I think. Or maybe pink or something. I don't know. You
decide."
"You want me to decide what your sister's favorite color is?"
"Sure. I trust your impeccable judgement in this matter."
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"You're already better at this than me. I would've never imagined that
something like color could be important."
Sharon sighed and rolled her eyes, picking up on the flirt. I think. Shift out
of joke mode. Say something more profound now. "I have a feeling destiny
could be at work here," I said. Remember to make an appeal to her possible
high quotient for Self-Transcendence and all things mystical, fateful, etc.
"Destiny?"
"Sure. Chance encounters can be the most important moment in a
persons life." Such a philosopher...
"Really?" Sharon was twisting back and forth nervously on one foot ever
so slightly. So damn cute. She seemed entranced by all this playing around I
could tell that I had a connection. I let her watch me take a deep breath let her
see my excitement and some of my anxiety as well.
"Well... isn't this something..." I just about whispered. My voice was
beginning to fail. Emotions are running high now...
"What?"
"This," I smiled knowingly. There. I revealed the hit. As if she didnt know
this already.
She looked away briefly, but then back just as fast. "I suppose it is."
"I'm wondering... if it's possible..." let her hang, let her hang... Split the
question...
Her eyes widened. "What?"
"If it's possible to get to know you a little better. You seem really friendly
and, like youd be fun to get to know..." Enough. Shut the fuck up... Wait for her
to speak next. Dont crack! Seconds, minutes... hours seemed to crawl by.
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"How about I meet you at Mickeys for lunch tomorrow, I'll treat you to the
best plate of Buffalo Wings on earth. What do you say?"
She looked at me with that cute little sideways glance that women have
been driving men crazy with for centuries. "I'd like that."
Without waiting for her to think about it too long, I dug out my wallet and
laid a freelance writer Me Card on her. "Is there a number I can get a hold of you
at, to set up the time?" I had her write her number on the back of a second card
and kept it. Unbelievable!
"You write?" she wondered.
"For Internet clients," I said with some authority, offering no further
explanation. Let her guess, keep some mystery. "You know where Mickeys
is?"
"On Hertel street."
"How about I meet you there at noon tomorrow?"
"Alright. Sounds like a plan.
Cool.
So... what about your sister's sundress?" she raised an eyebrow. That jig
was up. Don't hang around. Not like I'm out shopping with her or something...
"I think maybe I changed my mind. I'll pop over to Media Play and grab a
couple of CD's for her instead."
"Awww, and we were having so much fun in the girl store."
"Your right. This has been fun," I reached out and shook her hand, turning
it very gradually so that her hand was above my own just the way a knight poses
with a damsel before kissing it. I loosened my grip but waited for her break
contact first. She looked at me with a mixture of curiosity and... something else.
It took her an extra few seconds to release my hand. (This is the handshake
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"I'll be looking forward to seeing you tomorrow, Sharon." Imagine if..."

"What?"
"I don't know. Me and my crazy destiny again, never mind. Look, its been
great meeting you like this. Very exciting. I'll look forward to seeing you
tomorrow." Sometimes if you end with an incomplete half-comment, you can
get a woman thinking about you for a long time after youre gone.
"Bye Mike." It gave me a thrill to hear her use my name, but I was careful
not to show any sign of it. Don't be giddy, don't be stupid. She was so beautiful I
wanted to hug her as if she were my girl already. Not yet, but soon.
I turned and left the 4-5-6 girlie store and headed for Media Play, but I
didn't stick around there very long. In fact, I was headed home soon because I
didnt want her to see me again until we met on our get-together tomorrow.
Mystery!
There was a spring in my step as I crossed the parking lot that afternoon.
And a 7-digit dream written in stardust sparkling in my pocket!

Naturally, this kind of thrilling escalation of a pull tab will only go down this
smooth if the girl picks up the flirt and runs with it. But that must never stop you
from doing pull-tabs anyway just to see what happens. And how else are you
ever going to know if you can click with a particular girl unless you get up in her
grill and give her a chance to see who you are? How many mismatched couples
do you see walking around out there? How do you think they found each other?
Time to get New Age on you a little now... this deal doesnt work by
having you chase after women thats a scarcity mentality. Think of it like this
instead: you have to open yourself up to accepting the abundance of lovely
women surrounding you. You must allow yourself to become immersed in their
universe of love...
Heyyyy, lets spark up a blunt and go stare at the lava lamp for awhile!

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Seriously, theres no lower risk way to sort through bunches of women with
such expediency than by pull tabbing, where you only go as far as the signals
take you. For instance, after giving Sharon the 'black sheep' line in the above
story, if shed just pointed to some rack across the store and walked away, that
would have been a clear No-Go read and that would've been the end of it. I'
m
either not her type or she'
s not on the market or whatever. Take your pick.
No harm no foul because there was no actual hit involved, just a test for potential.
If there's a cleaner way to determine where you stand with any woman without
laying your ego on the chopping block or using imaginary mind reading powers, I
don't know what that could possibly look like.
Pull tabbing allows you to trade-in your dreams, desires and idle
wonderings for hard data.
Men often tell me they can actually meet women easily enough but that
those women soon get bored with them and stop answering their calls and emails before long, and they dont understand why. A large part of the answer lies
in the way that you start off with her. Its tough to develop any passion with a
woman after the fact if there was none there to begin with. This is why
techniques such as pull-tabbing where you actually meet women face-to-face
are superior to all these remote methods like online matchmaking or blind dating
where chemistry is a big unanswered question and lack of it usually kills the
deal... sometimes at first glance.
Plus, if you take the time to go through the process of establishing a
connection with a lively flirt from the very first moment the two of you meet, it will
make the continued advancement of romantic action on future dates seem
natural and appropriate. Thats because your very first actions demonstrated
your interest in her as a Man. And it doesnt require black magic to accomplish
this feat either just a few shared laughs and a warm buzz can often be enough
to do the trick. They spell it like this: C-H-E-M-I-S-T-R-Y.
With my pull-tabbing method, if you start off with a chick at all its almost
always with a tickle of this elusive chemistry that women lust for and this alone
can give you 1000% better odds to run a seduction right through to its completion
because the woman is inclined to give you a complete chance. And man, that
makes an enormous difference! Perhaps this is the single most important point to
take away from this entire section on meeting women: because of its stepstaged delivery, pull tabbing is a way to move forward with only those women

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who are at least somewhat interested in you right from the very start.
This one critical change can make the entire game fun for you rather than
mega-frustrating. You shouldnt need to have to dredge up the motivation to do
this stuff once you come to view it as fun. And there-in lies the true power behind
this method: the fact that it will become emotionally self-sustaining for you
before long. That means you can embrace pull-tabbing as a lifestyle and put the
pick-up moon missions to bed forever.

Section Summary:
Having any kind of plan to approach and talk to women is better than no
plan at all, because...
A Blank Mind = Fear = Hesitation = A Lost Opportunity!
In descending order of importance, here are what men and women are
generally looking for in terms of attraction:
1 Healthy genetics
2 Stable personality
3 Positive deep memory match
During the courtship process, both sexes seek "markers" for these physical
and emotional characteristics in the people whom they choose to mate with,
employing as many of their senses as possible. Whenever we encounter
exceptional facial symmetry in someone for instance, we instantly recognize it
as a marker for healthy genes (good stock) even if that recognition is wholly
subliminal and unconscious. Quick-witted humor, the so-called "sense of humor"
women love to wax poetic about is an obvious and immediately visible marker of
intelligence which is why women claim this to be a prized quality in the men
they find attractive.
The only part of any social encounter you can grade is that part which you
control, namely, your own performance. If you give it your classiest shot, then
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The most effective way to deliver an opening comment is in a playfully

casual way that makes it sound as if a random thought just popped into your
head. Demonstrate your intrigue with steady eye contact and possibly a quick
touch as well, but always in a classy way on the arm or maybe with just a
lingering handshake. Humor should follow the lines of an observation with an
absurd twist about your surroundings or yourself never anything cruel or
put-downish about her that shes supposed to get.
Seize whatever possible social opportunities come your way by learning to
say Yes! to an invitation for anything.
Pull tabbing can be divided into three parts which escalate in intensity as
the web of attraction is drawn tighter. This 3 part structure is helpful because
following it prevents you from freezing up or driving the conversation into a
pointless ditch:
1) Execute casual contact to get a quick readout of
what she thinks of you (pull tab)...
2) If there's any interest, begin to subtly communicate
that you dig her as a man does (reveal the hit)...
3) Arrange some means to establish future contact
under a potentially romantic pretense (card sharking)...
Meet her eyes, smile, hold eye contact. Meet, smile, hold... boom, boom,
boom... this non-verbal opening volley has to happen in a single smooth motion
about two seconds after you first catch a glimpse of her. Everything hinges on
this instant of positive recognition!
The attitude you want to project can best be described as guileless open
and accepting and "in the moment". Non-judgmental!
Whenever pull-tabbing, try to get a read on a woman's mood and
sync-up with it whatever that might seem to be at the moment... upbeat or
pensive, chatty / reserved wide-eyed / slo eyed flirty / serious.
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directly to the person who's making them nervous. This simple action can shortcircuit your anxiety instantly. Just keep such an admission casual and classy,
and immediately move on dont keep embellishing or wallowing in it. This is
done only for the benefit of your own unconscious mind, not her.
Sophistication around women can be demonstrated with the simple
body-language trick of keeping your peripheral movements slow and
poised... almost cat-like.
To hell with complimenting... make a Cool Observation & Warm
Comment instead by using the following format:
A Cool Observation (about her style / look / manner)

+
A Warm Comment about it.
Remember thats a comment, not a sappy compliment. Scan around for
something that looks unusual or remarkable about her, make sure it's something
positive, and then make a warm comment about it.
Work the word feeling into your conversation somewhere to insinuate that
you're sharing some kind of sixth sense' moment with her, and use solid Who
are you?-style eye contact (see page 103):
"I just had a feeling that..."
"we worked on the same floor..."
"you were from my old neighborhood..."
"I would see a cool necklace like that somewhere today..."
When asking for her number, split the question like this: "Look, I know
this might seem a little off the wall for me to be asking you..." At this point, pause
as if you're uncertain how to finish the sentence. The key to this technique is to
hang the question in the air and leave it there until she grabs for it. Then, ask
the second half of the question.
Have a standard thing to do rattling around in the back of your mind so
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You should always be prepared with two things upon your person at all
times:
1) a custom-made "Me Card", and
2) a stubby pencil (about 2" long).
The idea behind the Me Card is to create a communication tool that is
uniquely enticing to women because it gives you a chance to show off your stuff
in a way that gives you: 1) an instant boost of credibility, and 2) an automatic
cool and exciting thing to do on a first date! There are two main ideas to
consider insofar as properly formatting your Me Card: 1) Introduce some hobby
or skill that you're good at, and 2) present it in a way that suggests you teach it.
You don't just participate in this sport or hobby you give private lessons or are a
personal instructor of some kind. Work this idea into an action date somehow.
Four important things to understand about Bars and Clubs:
1) You always have to open strong with a dramatic, playful flirt.
2) You need to possess excellent non-verbal communication skills.
3) Watch her eyes! The eyes tell where you stand with her, and
they tell it immediately.
4) Everything is time-compressed in the Nightclub Universe.
One-night stands are a better shot than collecting phone numbers.
If you go through the processes of establishing a connection with a lively
flirt from the very first moment you meet a woman, it will make the continued
advancement of the romantic action on future dates seem natural and
appropriate. This elimination of pretense from the very beginning diminishes
awkwardness on a first date since your possible romantic attraction to her is
already well established and assumed by then. No wondering if I should kiss her
or hold her close...
Because of it's step-staged delivery, pull tabbing is a way to meet only
those women who show some interest in you right from the very start. This single
critical change can make the game fun for you rather than an exercise in pulling
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hen I wrote my first book Without Embarrassment, I focused mainly on

the most exasperating problem that men typically have with women... how to
meet them. More specifically, how to overcome their own fear of making fools of
themselves so they could take the action necessary to meet them! Ive now
expanded on the subject still further in the previous section of this book I believe
where I tried to load you up with even more strategies and ideas to help you out.
But Ive changed my mind somewhat that meeting women alone isnt quite the
bulls-eye that I once thought it was. Heres why...
Wading through waves of e-mail sent in by hundreds of readers during the
past three years, Ive slowly come to think that maybe its the dating portion of the
seduction game that gives guys more trouble. I here the same sad story of how
they can meet women just fine, but after one or two dates can no longer even get
her to return their calls. The worse part is that none of these women seem
interested in instructing these poor slobs as to why they got the boot. This leaves
them positioned to make the exact same mistake whatever it was all over
again! This amounts to double the frustration for a lot of guys, as it cancels out
the otherwise great success they have actually meeting women. Its like a
football team that marches up and down the field, but keeps turning the ball over
on the opponents 5 yard line and never actually scoring any points.
If a woman is refusing to return your calls it means she wants to break
away from you but doesnt know how. Or I should say, she doesnt have the
courage and honor (remember the female lack of honor?) to be straight up with
you. Then shed have to actually explain her feelings to you and thats a problem
because she either doesnt understand why she didnt like you (lack of
chemistry probably) or, more likely, doesnt give enough of a shit to even bother.
Once women emotionally disconnect youre just a bag of old garbage to them that
needs to be kicked to the curb. Women view men as sentimentally-challenged
retards anyway and so they justify their callus actions as probably having caused
no harm anyway since, well... theres nothing inside that empty skull of yours to
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Personally, dating itself never presented that big of a problem for me.
When I was struggling with this whole issue of hooking up with women, meeting
them was the problem. Maybe Im in the minority, I dont know. I also dont know
if what I have to share on this topic is all that earth-shattering, but Ill do my best
to try to pull everything Ive learned over the years into a valuable experience for
you in this section of the book. Ill see if I cant distill out what Ive been doing and
present it to you in a way that you can adopt to your own situation. Your basic
personality will dictate just how comfortable you may be with some of this stuff
and therefore how much of it youll be able to use. Hey when it comes to selfhelp guidance, what else is new?
Im something of a kooky, humorous bastard when you wind me up and
turn me loose though you might never have imagined so if youd seen me
standing around frozen in fear as a young man in the bars and clubs afraid to talk
with any of the girls. A Jekyll & Hyde sort of guy if there ever was one (splitpersonality Gemini!). But... once Ive got the pretense of the date finally
established and ding-dong finally show up at her door, Im usually okay.
In that spirit, here are some of the things Ive learned along the way that
might assist you in your own dating efforts.

The Dreaded First Phone Call

Unless you made a date for a casual get-together right when you first met,
youll have to contact your new friend to set everything up and that means youll
have to get on the phone and call her. This first call can be a big landmine
sometimes because women like to bait guys along in lengthy gab sessions for the
express purpose of getting him to slip-up and reveal something about himself that
you would rather she didnt know. So you have to be careful about what you say
during this first chat and be cognizant that you must be the one to direct the
conversation where youd like it to go. Dont surrender this responsibility and let
her do it or you may not enjoy the results. I hear from a lot of guys who complain
to me they can get phone numbers like crazy, but when they make the call for
some reason the girls demeanor has changed and they get rushed off the phone.
When they try calling back again the chick will either blow them off entirely or
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Heres an example of what Im talking about. This is an exchange I had

with one of my readers who expressed a common frustration:
Mike,
I am reading your book Without Embarrassment for the
second time now, and I have a question for you. How do you
handle the flakey bitch? Ya know... you work to get the phone
number, you talk and she seems to dig you, she wants to meet next
week... her schedule is clear. Everything seems good. Then you
call next week and get some shitty unenthusiastic response, and she
never calls you back.
I find that many women seem willing to pull this kind of shit
without a care -- is this just happening to me... or what the fuck?
Barry
My response:
Hey Barry,
When you make that first call, spend some time "re-selling"
yourself. This is important because the first impression you made
when you got her number, no matter how good it mayve been at the
time, has probably begun to fade a little. Getting a first date is really
a duel operation that requires two good first impressions and the
second one happens when you make that initial phone call. Get her
excited a bit tease, use some innuendo, be somewhat mysterious
and hard to figure out, get her laughing... remind her of why she
should be excited to want to see you again!
The best time to ask for the date is at the peak of these good feelings!
A woman will make her decision whether or not to hook up
with you based on these combined impressions. If the second one
falls flat, theres a good chance she's basically going to reject you.
But women, being the cowards they usually are, rarely blow you off
directly face-to-face. They just starve you of further contact by

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playing the screening calls deleting e-mail game in the hope that
you'll just give up and go away.
Anytime that you get torpedoed in this fashion you know you failed to
re-sell yourself adequately on that first call. In the early stages of courtship,
everything is all about creating the anticipation of future passion.
The behavior of women can often seem maddening to men, but the guys
actions can also play a factor as well. What we need is to take a careful look at
the dynamics involved with each partner. For instance, much of the tendency
women have to act capriciously derives from the way in which the man comes
into possession of her phone number in the first place. Some guys take a
scattergun approach to meeting women that involves getting numbers anywhere
and everywhere that they can. No qualifiers, no real sense of connection. Just
give me your number and Ill go away for now. There are two motivating ideas
here, fear control and dumb luck. Guys attempt to bulldoze their fear of rejection
by developing a frenzied pattern of action which they train themselves to repeat
almost robotically whenever they come into range of any cute girl.
Essentially they say little more than Hi, I think you look really awesome,
could I get your number and take you out next week? No attempt at any sort of
connection, no modifying of their approach based upon the girls character or
mood or the situation. Just give me the number so I can run back to my room
and beat off. They do this because they know that if they stray too far away from
this direct, hammerhead approach they might get caught up in an actual
conversation that threatens to reveal just how shallow and socially awkward they
really are. What they plan on doing with this contact information is not something
I believe they let themselves dwell on too much theyre just happy to get The
Number. They won... theyve scored! Collecting numbers for guys like this
represents action... theyre doing something, taking steps to change their life.
Theres also this idea of playing the numbers where if you can just
manage to put yourself in front of a large enough number of women some of
them will eventually pan out for you. There is some truth to this approach of
course meeting a person that you can really click with involves some luck. But
theres a right and a wrong way to go about this without killing yourself
emotionally (and financially!). If youve been running pull tabs as a lifestyle
routine like I described in the previous section, youre at least screening for some
kind of initial interest and connection first, and I think this gives you a better

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chance in the long run. You might have to go through 5, 10 or maybe at most 20
girls to really find a gem that you hit it off with, whereas using a non-connecting
type of hit-and-run approach could put that number somewhere up in the 100's!
Plus, you need to have an occasional success in order to stay motivated. We all
have different tolerance levels for pain, but none of us can face too much
rejection before we finally throw in the towel and figure that a soulmate just isnt in
the cards for us. Thats why Ive tried to develop a system that will produce some
encouraging moments along the way to keep you on the playing field.
Heres what happens between getting a girls number and that first phone
call: they think. They have fears they wonder if they did the right thing, wonder
if they havent lost their mind by giving out their number to a guy they just met on
the street or in a bar. They have regrets. All of this stuff builds up like a brick
wall growing out of the ground. So heres the deal, and its a good-news / badnews sort of thing. The good news is that you overcame your fear, made a
connection, got a number and possibly a commitment to get together with some
hot chick in the near future. Now the bad news...
Due to this steady rot of regret going on in her head since then, you
havent accomplished a goddamn thing... yet.
So during this first phone call you must convince her all over again that
shes fortunate to have a great guy like you taking an interest in her. You must
re-sell yourself. Anything else doesnt get it done. You must project good
strength and confidence in both your voice and the flow of your conversation.
For an example of how not to do it, heres how an unplanned, unstructured,
unguided conversation might go:
Hello? cute girl says.
Hi, hows it goin?
Who is this?
Its me, Mike?
Mike?
Yeah you know, we met Tuesday over at the pumpkin festival. By the
chicken cages. Remember how bad they smelled?
Oh yeah, right.
So... hows it goin?
Not bad. Hows yourself?
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Cool.
Yeah, so like I was wonderin if you wanted to do something.
Like what?
I dunno. What would you like to do?
I dont know.
Well, I was thinkin we could go over to Ebenezer Park and hang out by
the waterfall. Its pretty cool. And theres a place right over there where we can
get tacos or a hamburger...
You get the idea, pointless and ill-prepared. It gets her thinking ...was I
nuts to give this joker my phone number? How am I going to get rid of him?.
Once that thought crosses her mind, youre pretty much floating belly up. You
need to begin the re-sales job right out of the gate and never let up thats the
best way to keep the odds in your favor.
Im not a big fan of using texting or e-mail to make this critical first followup contact incidentally, although I realize these technologies have hopelessly
swept up the world and theres no stopping them now. Call me old-fashioned but
I think its just far too difficult to get the proper sort of connecting-emotion to
project through typed words, unless youre a very good writer. And even then if
you get too poetic on her shell probably just think you copied it from a book!
Talking to her voice-to-voice is always the preferred way. Of course, if you were
only able to get an e-mail or Myspace username in the first place then thats what
youll have to work with, but remember that its a poor substitute and thats why
you should always try for a phone number.
Whether using the phone or messaging, be careful not to get into a big
self-reveal, as youll end up shooting yourself in the foot by letting her in on
something too personal that you didnt want her to know about yet. Some women
will try and bait you along with a smoke screen of chatter to see if youll slip up
and expose something negative about yourself that youre short tempered,
jealous, already married, yada-yada. Something to use as an excuse to get rid of
you right away without having to go through the drudgery of a formal date.
So try to talk about only the best stuff about yourself and your exciting life.
Remember, its a re-sales job that youre still doing at this point, even in text-chat.
You only want to tell the prospective customer all the good stuff about what hes
about to buy, right? You want to hide the fact theres been collision work on the
rear left fender, know what I mean? This is not disingenuous (unless youre a

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maniac serial killer trolling for a victim) youre just presenting an attractive side
of yourself. This is perfectly normal... we all want a prospective mate to see us in
the best light possible. Women drop tons of cash on hair, make-up and clothes
to accomplish the same thing that a man can do with his words. Seduction is a
mirage dont forget a dream for both of you to get lost within.

Heres the three big concepts to keep in mind when making this critical
first phone call:
1 ) Re-sell Yourself to be that guy she wants to see again...
2 ) Get Her Laughing and thinking Fun Thoughts about you, then...
3 ) Strike when the Iron is Hot! And ask for a specific date!
Lets expand on these ideas now.

Re-selling Yourself
When it comes to this first real conversation, keep in minds that you need
to be the one who takes command of the conversation right from the very start,
because if you let her do it theres no telling where she will lead you. So
understand your responsibility to be the guide. This doesnt mean you must blab
away like a fool, only that you maintain a firm idea of what points you want to get
across.
Make sure you have all the details of what you would like to do with her
worked out in advance and written down when you call. However, if she suggests
something different or seems enthusiastic about doing a certain thing than by all
means dump out of your plan and go with hers you can count on the date going
better and her being in a sweeter mood if the date centers around something she
wants to do. Stay flexible and embrace her input and ideas, and speak with a
smile while youre talking. This imparts a brightness to your voice that is very
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her spirits elevated shes likely to consider you in a better light... more funny,
more interesting and exciting.
Whatever you do, dont act like one of these anal-retentive types that gets
everything worked out in advance and then gets pissed off and starts pouting
when she makes a counter suggestion of something she would rather do instead.
Brother... relax. Keep this thing in perspective shes not your girlfriend that
you can order around! You want to make the customer happy.
But I bought these tickets for the hockey game Friday night, and I though
you would like to go with me... I dropped almost a $100 bucks for them... you
whine. Bad move. Dont go crazy and buy tickets or making expensive
arrangements for any pre-scheduled event assuming that you have the date in
the bag. This is dumb and expensive and youre only setting yourself up for
disappointment. She is under no obligation to say yes to anything, and a
transparent manipulation like this will only piss her off. And then youll both be
pissed off and you havent even been out on a goddamn date yet!
Hey, this phone call is going swimmingly, isnt it?
No. The way to play this is to lay back and welcome her input. This is
all part of the vibe you want to project for yourself after all... you are powerful and
in control of things and know what you want, but are gentlemanly enough to defer
to her wishes. The powerful man exhibiting graciousness to the weaker damsel!
I bought these tickets for the hockey game Friday
night, and I though you would like to go with me...
I dont really like hockey. Could we something
else?
Sure, what do you have in mind?
Theres this little place over on Catalina Street
called the Blue Lagoon thats supposed to have
awesome seafood...
Say no more, sounds good. We could go there
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brother Tom...
See that? Nothing bothers you its all good!

Get Her Laughing

We discussed in the last section how women look for a sense of humor as
a marker of an intelligent, quick-witted mind. Humor is more than that though, its
a gauge people use to determine the general likability of someone. Neurotic
guys never seem to smile or laugh do they? Nothings funny to them except
when someone trips and smashes open their skull. Some stupid ass hurt
himself?... ha-ha, now thats funny. I concur with women in this sense, I can
always spot a crackpot by the 24/7 scowl on his face. Thinking up new places to
find new victims to chloroform is serious business. No time for clowning around.
As part of the job of re-selling yourself on the phone, you need to remind
her of the fun-loving personality you bring to the table, so mix in a few jokes here
and there during the course of the conversation. (But please... NO formal jokes
that start out like... ...so this pollack, a gorilla and a priest go into a bar..., you
know what Im saying?). Humor is a delicate thing that youve got to hit just right
on several fronts: slant, content, and timing are especially important. Girls are
tickled by a clever wit more than anything else. Everything about the use of
humor needs to be understated and as subtle as possible. There should be no
bald attempts to manufacture a laugh when one isnt there because lame stabs
always come across as the work of a guy whos trying way too hard. Its the
oddball observation, the casually understated delivery... and especially the
patience to wait for the perfect moment to spring a gag that gets the job done.
These are the elements behind humor that works to paint a charming and
uplifting picture of yourself.
You never want to seem like a guy whos trying to be funny, but rather that
youre a naturally funny guy. The more effortless your humor comes across, the
more genuine and believable it will appear. Guys who are naturally funny never
feel the need to pour it on thick either, which only demonstrates lack of
confidence. If youre confident in your ability to project humor at all the right
moments, youll have no need to be on all the time. Its tough to coach humor in
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Strike While the Iron is Hot

Now that youve re-established yourself as an interesting and fun guy,
youre in a much safer position to ask for the date. I like to wait until I sense that
Ive brought all the good feelings and laughter to a peak, and thats the moment
to act. You should have at least two things ready and written down in front of
you on a note pad (so you dont forget any important details like times, directions,
etc.). Have a primary thing youd like to do, and a backup if she doesnt go for
the first idea. Of course, you stand ready to receive any counter offers that she
makes, right? As well discuss in a minute, you should try to steer her towards an
action date if possible for that first date, but sometimes you have to take what
you can get if shes really enthusiastic about doing something else. Go with her
plans instead and stay flexible. You can always back burner the action date for
next time, at this point the idea is just to keep her happy.
Once you get a yes to a date and have all the various details figured out
and written down, make a little bit more flirty chat with her AND THEN GET THE
HELL OFF THE PHONE! Do not horseshit around acting all giddy and stupid
now that youve got a date like a 14 year old schoolboy! Youre a socially
experienced guy and a Player remember scoring dates is no big deal for a guy
like you. So act like it. Be polite, be cool... and then begone!
I know Im probably flying in the face of a rising new technological tide by
even suggesting this, but Im recommending that you resist the urge to fill in the
time between this first call and the actual date by IMing or e-mailing or texting her
with cutesy little messages during the interim. I think this continuing gibberish
steps all over your male mystery and even makes you seem like a bit of a
borderline kiss-ass if youre not careful. I dont care if its the cool new thing to
do, its NOT cool in this particular situation especially when youre just
beginning to work a seduction. I have guys write me about this all the time and I
can see how they are fucking the duck with this messaging crap and dont even
seem to know it. Every time she sees some little pop-up message from you she
knows that youre sitting around with nothing better to do than dream about her.
This is not the behavior of the high status male, is it?
Think about it... if youre supposedly a busy HSM guy with an active
business and social life then you should have little time for this sort of schoolboy
shit, shouldnt you? All the excited daydreaming and fretful anticipation is her job
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racing off in circles whereas you are the confident dude always in control.
Its okay to respond to messages that she initiates of course, but dont be
the first one to reach out like this. I think it makes you look like a puppy dog
whining at her front door and Ive had women tell me this. Maybe Im off the deep
end with this topic, I dont know. Use your own discretion if you think Im wrong.
Just dont piss and moan to me when after 5 or 6 of your cutey-tootey little
Blackberry messages she texts back that she suddenly doesnt feel well and cant
make the date tonight. After all your hard work to build an image, you dont want
to risk flushing it away with an easy to avoid mistake like this. So I recommend
you keep your cellphone in your pants for now.

Image, Investigation & Escalation

Alright then, you made your way through the minefield of the first call, reboosted her first impression of you and now youre hooking up for a real date in
person. This stuff can be stressful and perplexing to a lot of men, and one of the
main reasons for that is that most guys dont have enough of a concrete plan
firmed up in their mind ahead of time of what exactly theyre supposed to do on
the date in order to give them a feeling of being totally prepared for it. And men
get stressed-out to the degree that they feel unprepared and out of control so I
believe that it helps to have a design in your head of what youre actually trying
to accomplish, for the stress relief if nothing else. And I dont just mean some
vague idea along the line of Id like to get laid. Of course thats the ultimate
goal, but there are a lot of steps that have to happen before you get there... and
they have to go down correctly or pop goes the seduction.
To begin, as just a general rule not specific to any particular date,
whenever youre out and about with a woman that youre just getting to know
there are 3 ideas that you want to keep in mind Image, Investigation and
Escalation...
1) Create an Image for yourself along the lines of an
interesting theme and stick with it.
2) Investigate her thoughts and emotions surreptitiously by
listening carefully for clues as to what her ultimate romance/sex
fantasy might be. This is helpful data youll need when you will
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3) Continue to Escalate and press forward towards intimacy in
a reasonable step-by-step manner with appropriate touching leading
to the First Kiss and beyond. Dont let the fires grow cold.

Image
The image you may want to project about yourself can be anything that
suits you... the High IQ guy, tough biker-motorhead guy, bright-eyed and amazed,
artsy and sensitive, the travel & adventure bum, an adrenaline junkie, a weird
science kid, reasonable and level-headed adult, the bar bum, fitness fan, sports
nut, soulful lover boy, the hippie New Ager, etc. Or mix and match several to
come up with something that excites you.
Its important to get clear and decide what this Image that you project to
women will be like. Is it going to be something you change to match what you
think a particular girl you are targeting would be fascinated by... or are you going
to carve it in stone? When you take the time to do this in advance, it prevents
you from coming across as wishy-washy and boring... which is one of the capital
sins of dating.
Boredom is more of a problem with some women than you might imagine,
and the magnitude of the issue goes up in relation to how hot the woman is or
thinks she is. Hot chicks especially bore easily because of that nagging pressure
they feel to do something special with their hot chickness superpower like we
talked about before. Being a hot chick doesnt come with an owners manual and
many stress out trying to determine what the world wants from them. Theyre
viewed by most men as trophies to be scored, fucked and disposed of, which
doesnt help matters either. By extension, you also come under this umbrella of
pressure by trying to get close to her life. Does her becoming associated with
you somehow enhance the extraordinary quality of her life as seen by those who
would judge her by these high standards, or diminish it instead?
What do you bring to the table?
A focused presentation of yourself, one that mystifies and delights and
keeps her interested in you, is the key to keeping boredom at bay. It doesnt take
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content to fade away into the faceless mass of humanity. Dont let this be you.
To design an image that you may want to put forth to the world, start by
considering these questions:
1) What are the top three things you like to do with your time? (Mine are
reading, writing and building stuff around the house) __________________
2) Who is a favorite male actor that you respect for both the types of roles
he plays and the way he handles himself in real life? _________________
3) Why? What does he do that makes him seem cool? ___________
You may come up with a new you from playing around with this line of
thought. Stay true to whatever image might seem reasonable even if it seems a
bit uncomfortable at first give yourself time to grow into it. Also determine what
appears appropriate for your current age before you settle on something
permanently. Here are some guidelines:
18-24 Youre a with it guy whos clued into the current popular culture in
terms of style, dress and tech knowledge
25-30 You are on a hot career track and going places financially
31-37 You are beginning to accumulate some wealth, notoriety or power in
your field of endeavor
38-45 Youve got some success in life and a bit of experience with women
that makes you comfortable around them maybe even a divorce or
two as well as other social battle scars
46-55 You have achieved a fair degree of competency in your lifes work,
whatever it may be, and have traveled and otherwise enjoyed the
fruits of your successes and have developed some world-wisdom
56+

By now youve acquired a fair amount of sophistication about

life and love and have hammered out a niche in life that you
are proud of. You have the means to show her a good time
and impress her with money and worldly experience.

Use this to gain a general understanding of where you should be at in life

(even if youre not really there yet ), and thus the level of competency that youll
want to project about yourself... your vibe of maturity. Adjust your wardrobe to
match your image so that it begins to feel more natural and becomes an everyday
part of who you are. Deciding on an image is important and shouldnt be
dismissed lightly. Thats because youll want to attract the type of girl who digs
the kind of guy that you really are. Otherwise youll eventually be faced with
disappointing her when you are forced to reveal the real you. Of course, within
reason you can change your look on the fly depending on the situation. For
instance, it would be alright to be a suit & tie guy during the workday because
maybe your business demands a professional look, and to meet her for lunch
wearing this persona. On your own time however, you might be more the bikertype so it would be okay to jump into this wholly different look when you come
over on your Harley to pick her up on Sunday afternoon.
You might even want to play around with several different images and
change things up now and then just to keep yourself interesting and her a bit off
balance. There are no rules with this sort of thing other than to stay true to your
heart and dont be boring. The only skill this technique requires is an ability to
subtly exaggerate a few key aspects of yourself. Just pick out a couple of
qualities and make them bolder or more pronounced. You dont have to go too
crazy, just a taste. She should be sharp enough to pick it up.
As you get deeper into embracing your image, you may want to change the
kind of vehicle you drive, your living situation or even the layout of your apartment
to match your new style. A cowboy-type ought to live on a small spread of land
with at least a modest free-standing house... not in a downtown high-rise
apartment. It just doesnt seem right somehow. An artists loft is cool for the
writer-artist-musician type of dude... the intellectual-scholarly type should have a
study with a big bookshelf home library... the travel & adventure guy will have lots
of framed photos documenting his foreign escapades plastered over his walls...
and so on. Your image is part of an overall theme that best describes who you
are and what youre about. And remember, you dont have to go nuts with this
stuff, just enough to intrigue.
Myself, Im 52 now and like to play it classy. My goal is to achieve
Oneness with the complete James Bond look someday... (Ha! Dream on... first I
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Investigation
Like a grand chessmaster, striving to gather a sense of your opponent and
anticipate his next move is paramount to your success. You want to be outthinking him by one or two steps at any given moment. Translated in a romantic
sense, this means that youll want to understand a woman well enough to guess
where her emotional hot buttons lie before you accidentally step on the wrong
ones. Therefore, whenever you two spend time together, one of your secret
missions is to stay tuned-in for clues that speak to the overall fantasy model she
has about love and men in her mind and take note of them.
If you really listen closely, here and there youll catch her getting excited
when she talks about certain subjects or activities that seem cool or romantic to
her. Take special note of these details and when you get home jot down a some
notes on a yellow pad. This growing list should include anything and everything
that you can glean from her without doing a lot of intense questioning. Dont
interrogate your date constantly or youll come off like an obsessive, impatient
loser who wants to know right away if she has any disqualifiers so he can bail.
Try not to be this cynical. Let her bring the information to you in her own way and
on her own schedule, you just keep your radar ears open. Its okay to lead the
conversation when it looks like she might be dancing around some issue that you
would like her to further clarify, but do it subtly and casually. After spending
maybe 5-10 hours with her out on dates, you should have built up a page-full of
random items that describe all the things about life and love she holds some
particular fondness for. You can then use this information to help yourself design
a customized seduction for that particular woman.
This idea alone and your actually having the wits to conceive of it in the
first place puts you light-years out in front of the pack of ordinary chumps
floundering around aimlessly in the dating universe. You are a Man with a Plan!
Things that seem to intrigue her could be certain holidays or times of the
week (birthdays, spring break, Friday fish fries, lazy Sunday afternoons), certain
places (beach, jazz bistros, the zoo) or times of day (morning sex) or night
(midnight dog walks), types of philosophy (astrology, politics), styles of indulgent
trinkets like jewelry (silver with topaz) or bath oils (eucalyptus), houseplants or
wall hangings (NOTE: women are not into electronic gadgets like most men are,
they like decorative things with little or no functional purpose). She might have an
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volunteer work in their spare time. Whatever... a million possibilities. Like

snowflakes, no two women will be alike in what mix of things about Life, Love and
Men get them perked up. Your task is to keep your antenna tuned-in and figure
out what as many of these things might be.
Now, instead of a standard dinner and movie, you maneuver her out to a
little beachfront bar because she mentioned two dates ago that she used to love
watching sunsets when her dad would take her fishing as a kid. This place has
awesome Friday fillets or a killer shrimp plate (she mentioned her fondness for
shrimp when you were texting each other last week)... and you sneak in a single
white Tiger Lily under your coat (her favorite flower...) and have the waitress bring
it to your table along with the food (for an extra tip, of course!).
Ever watch a pinball machine go nuts?... ding, ding, ding and it starts
rolling up mountains of points? Well, thats the explosion of delight going off in
her head right now and those points are all racking up in your column brother!
This is what its all about man... intrigue. How come youre so different than
other guys, shes wondering? Whats the deal with you anyway? She needs to
know this real bad now...
See whats happened? Youve elevated ordinary old dating to a new
realm of romantic fantasy a level she mayve never personally experienced
(but has definitely dreamed about from her teen years, you can be sure of that).
What Im trying to demonstrate is that doing something clever doesnt have to be
a big elaborate deal with brass bands or an expensive I LOVE YOU banner
being towed around the sky. Nothing of the sort. Once you understand a little
about where her emotional trigger buttons lie, a custom romantic scenario will
just about write itself.
The fact that you invoke something special that only she
would especially dig because it appeals to her particular tastes
means that you have been listening to her and applying a
degree of thoughtfulness to what youre doing something that
most guys are completely clueless about!
Romantically thoughtful guys are so rare that its like finding an albino
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The laughable part is that the whole big secret behind this superpower is
merely an ability to listen and to know enough to keep a few notes. Sometimes
these clues can be buried deep in conversations so they tend to be easily
overlooked if youre not watching out for them. But unlike most guys, youre
vigilant. The degree to which investigation and date customizing will work
depends to some extent on how high she scores for the self-transcendent
qualities like I talked about earlier. A woman whos more emotional or dreamy is
more likely to give up choice tidbits that you can use. This is because her world
is rich with imaginings. For instance, many of your conversations may include
things like astrology or artistry or music and concerts fertile ground for the
romantic / fantasy ideas that you seek!
A more down-to-earth, serious type woman (low self-transcendence score)
will likely spend less time talking about dreamy stuff and will thus offer slimmer
pickins for your spy work, but thats just how it goes. There are loads of different
variables in the seduction game and no single strategy can account for them all.
Some women will just be easier to set up for a romantic knockout punch than
others. No big deal not having a rich fantasy life may simply mean that it may
take something less elaborate to impress her than the kooky hippie-type.
The really big payoff behind all this investigating happens when you
determine what kind of sexual fantasy might be a real bell-ringer for her. It
more than likely wont include any of the perverted shit youre thinking about right
now (not yet, anyway), but rather some particular element which makes it exciting
for her specifically. Maybe she would like things to start out with a shared
sensuous bath, or possibly the thought of doing it in a hotel room in a nearby big
city meshes up with some latent fantasy? Rose petals on the bed? Sounds silly,
but you never know so dont pre-reject anything. Remember that women think
much differently than us. Stay alert whenever youre talking with her something
useful may bubble up to the surface when you least expect it.

Escalation
When it comes to the entire subject of dating and all the various debates
that rage on about one aspect of it or another, Im here to tell you that as far as
youre concerned there is only one single overriding element that you absolutely
must understand as a man, and that is the idea of escalation. There are a few
things that will absolutely blow the deal when it comes to seducing a woman, and
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This escalation of passion doesnt have to be anything incredibly dramatic,

but somehow she should be getting the sense that every time she sees you the
noose of intimacy (granted, not a very nice analogy) has drawn just a little bit
tighter around the two of you. Women dont mind waiting around for the train as
long as they can see the headlight coming towards them in the distance. But if
she doesnt get this feeling of growing closeness from you, I can almost
guarantee that the seduction will soon grow stone cold.
You simply cannot afford to be timid here: women will interpret your failure
to escalate as a passive-aggressive form of rejection.
Guys will make the big mistake of thinking that the girl somehow knows
they are shy, and that they just need some time to gather their courage. They
DO NOT automatically know this they may think you dont dig them! As a rule,
women do not understand the anxieties of men because they think we are
mindless lumps of hairy protoplasm driven by the nerve-impulses radiating from
our drooling dicks. I kid you not my friend. Females have little sense of what
drives men beyond pure sexual desire, and if they sense youre cooling off on
them they just figure your cock has sent up some kind of signal to the effect of
forget it, shes not turning me on... and so therefore youve lost interest in her.
This is why escalating is important its a visible display of your growing desire
that she needs to see in order to tamp down her own insecurities.
The early stages of a seduction are as flimsy as a soap bubble remember.
Much hard work can be completely lost with the most seemingly inconsequential
of mistakes. A semi-critical, throwaway remark about some minor aspect of her
body, a cool peck on the cheek when she was ready for a real kiss... or maybe
even a kiss that fails to linger long enough. Any or all of these can sink you
depending on what she secretly holds to be a meaningful type of behavior on
your part. So its necessary to strike a balance (theres that word again) between
being too timid and cautious, and being an insensitive barbarian.
Escalating the intimacy level in your budding relationship is crucial as is
being constantly aware of when youre about to go too far by taking things for
granted too soon. This is part of the refined romantic sense that every seducer
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So in Review...
Pour over the following checklist thoroughly before every date:
1 ) Does my look and attitude support the theme
or image that Im trying to establish for myself?
2 ) How do I plan to escalate the intimacy and
passion with her this evening? Whats the plan?...
close dancing, lots of touching, frequent hand holding,
the first kiss, a deeper soul-kiss plus some petting...
what?
3 ) Am I in a playful and fun mood and ready to
flirt with her throughout the course of the evening?
4 ) Am I ready to keep my rabbit ears open for
any clues to help me tune into what she really finds sexy
and enticing about a man?
Dating is not rocket science and Im not trying to turn it into that, I just want
you to have some rudimentary plan in your head instead of stumbling into these
encounters on a wing and a prayer. This is how you remain ahead of the curve
and give yourself the best chance to succeed. Seduction by its very definition
suggests a pre-conceived series of actions. Were not trying to be sneaky rats,
just rational guys wrapping our clever minds around a complex problem.

The Three-Date Master Seduction

Alright then, let the seduction begin...
I read somewhere that the average American male achieves first sex with a
woman after 5.5 dates. In Europe it takes 4.5 dates to make it to the sack, and in
Sweden about 4.0 keeping the fantasy of easy Nordic women alive I suppose.
Im going to lay out a plan for you that will attempt to get this down to 3.0, which
is a significant acceleration from these averages. But I certainly cant make any
iron guarantees. A lot of your success will depend on the personality that youre
dealing with and just how fast the click of chemistry happens between the two of
you (or doesnt). Infinite variables equals infinite possibilities and never more

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so than when youre dealing with a collision of the two most complex systems in
the known Universe... human minds.
This is especially so when it comes to dating because the mixture of
emotions and preconceptions that both parties bring to the table can be highly
unpredictable. For instance, I remember dating this one girl who was very
bright... you could just see the gears turning behind her eyes. But she was so
reserved I quickly discovered that it was almost impossible to get a firm read on
her. She was the type that you had to pull every word out of like bad teeth, and it
was really tough to keep a conversation going. This was before I realized that
women such as this sometimes respond to physical touch better than words,
and today I wouldve handled her much differently. Simply because a woman is
non-talkative doesnt necessarily mean shes a prude or that she doesnt like you,
but I didnt know this at the time and so I stopped calling because it was just too
exhausting to keep bouncing unappreciated words off of her. I also wondered
what kind of relationship you could have with a girl so highly internalized.
Unfortunately, I never found out. These are the types of personal failures upon
which my books are built, incidentally.
The point is that women can have many of the same hangups about dating
that we men have, including a fear of success which can manifest itself in all
sorts of self-sabotaging behaviors. Sometimes she panics and tries to de-rail
everything... stops returning your calls, starts acting argumentative and bitchy for
no apparent reason, etc. This is when you really need to be strong because as
men we have a tendency to feel that when we are performing correctly we will get
the result that we expect, but this is not always the case with women. Women
are not like computer applications or machinery... they are fickle and irrational
and are prone to changing the rules in the middle of the game if it suits them. So
stay ready for anything and try not to lay the blame for everything that goes wrong
on your own shoulders. Doing so will gradually crush your confidence into dust
and make it impossible for you to face the long term task of seduction, a process
that takes some patience.
The idea behind the Three Date Master Seduction is to compress the
time involved in this entire process by designing each of the dates to cater to a
separate need and create a unique emotional state that pulls the two of you
closer together, until you ultimately collide in bed. For instance, instead of dinner
and a movie, the first date works better if it involves some kind of movement and
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good feelings. Against this biochemical backdrop its easier to create states in
her that will make you seem more attractive. You will look better, brighter, more
masculine and even sexier to a woman when shes pumped up doing something
active like dancing or chasing you down a ski slope! And in this game of love
remember that perception is reality. There is no other reality amidst the
emotional storms of courtship except those that you manufacture for her,
deliberately or inadvertently.
The Three Date Master Seduction is designed to accomplish this goal
first with action, then emotional connection, and finally with sexuality. And
because the closeness evolves in a way that seems rationale and proper to her
female mind, she has a tendency to slide right into lockstep with your designs.
Theres lots of talk about hypnotizing women into doing much of this sort of stuff
against their will. Well, you dont need to snake-charm with a flurry of fancy
words. Just the fact that youre a man with an apparent plan can intrigue her
enough to want to take the ride all the way to the end just to see where it goes.
Think of all of your careful attentions as a gift that you the Man, bestows
upon her. And try to deliver it with some degree of confidence to maximize the
impact it has on her.

Beware the Pyre of Self-Destruction

Of course there can be countless other issues many of them lying in wait
within your own head that stand between your dreams and a successful
conclusion to all your romantic efforts. Judging from the slant of a large volume
of my e-mail, many guys are deep into the self-sabotage thing and dont even
seem to know it. And they like to use their relationships with women as a primary
instrument of self-torture because this is where the pain can apparently be made
to hurt the most. When some guys start getting too close to the finish line they
like to screw the pooch somehow, usually by picking a fight over nothing (such as
something stupid like politics or a similar insufferable topic that matters not a bit
to the seduction!) or by doing something otherwise obnoxious to deliberately piss
her off.
You can see this sort of thing in action on some of these TV dating shows
where the two blind daters start trying to one-up each other with their sharpwitted little quips, until they finally end up arguing non-stop for the remainder of
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at the dude by the end of the program! Of course the date ends up a total bust,
but its all great entertainment for the viewers. This certainly isnt the way you
want things to unfold in real life. These blind date shows are actually instructive
because they illustrate how just a few ill-placed remarks here and there can
quickly snowball out of control and blow everything all to hell in the blink of an
eye. It doesnt take much to pop the bubble of seduction remember shes not
your girl yet and therefore has little incentive to suffer your nasty shit. Even a bit
of bullheadedness on your part can get her to completely shut down on you, and
then its game over when that happens.
So check your motives and make sure that this twisted desire to selfdestruct within sight of the goal line isnt the source of many of your dating
problems!
Men can also develop a great deal of latent anger towards women as a
result of the accumulated slights theyve suffered during their quest for romance,
so you might want to do a head check on yourself and see if a pattern hasnt
developed that may signal a problem. It sets itself up as a push-pull dilemma in
your mind: social pressures pull you towards the world of dating as something
that you should be doing, but other elements in your own consciousness are
pushing you away. Probably to avoid further pain and disappointment. It is within
this crucible that all our hidden motivations are forged.
Once youve got these cobwebs cleared out you should be able to throw
yourself into this stuff with enthusiasm. And try not to get so wrapped up worrying
about the minutiae of technique that you forget to have fun along the way! This
stuff can be maddening, triumphant, bewildering, exhilarating and sometimes
even crushing. But it is rarely ever dull. So prepare yourself for what likely will
become a most delightful cascade of the unpredictable.

Date #1 The Action Date

One of the worst experiences of my pathetic early social life was the
notorious duck date. I took this girl that I was dying to hump on a first date to a
fancy restaurant. There, I ordered the most expensive thing I could find on the
menu, which happened to be something called oranged duck. Man, I was going
to impress the hell out of this chick with my brazen willingness to throw away
money in her direction! Her legs were sure to fly open later that night! This was
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So here I am, the debonair cultured guy munching down this greasy fuckin
orange duck (tough as rawhide and no white meat to be found anywhere) thinking
that I was in like Flynn. Needless to say, after swiftly recovering from having
nearly shit my pants when discovering the bill to be in triple figures, it was back to
her place and my just reward. Not so. My dreams of sliding into her molten hot
pussy remained forever locked in fantasyland, for once at the threshold of her
front door (I didnt even make it into the house!) I was given the summary kiss
of death... the cheek peck! Thats right, I had been instantly dismissed as a nice
guy. A loser! And that was the end of my little seduction.
But I was confused, what the hell had I done wrong? Wasnt this the way
to impress the seriousness of my amorous intentions upon a woman? Was I not
an honorable suitor playing the game of love as it was prescribed to be played?
Maybe in 1875 when men merely needed to perform well-understood
romantic signaling behaviors by rote which the Victorian women of that day
graciously accepted, but in 1975? Not a chance, and the women today are even
more cynical and difficult to impress. No, Id unwittingly played the part of a
complete asshole on that date, which I will elaborate upon in a moment. But
before I go there, let me tell you about a First date that actually worked for me,
and now acts as the basis for my action date theory. I used to scuba dive quite a
bit when I was younger. Nothing too amazing, just some sport diving in the
nearby lakes and flooded quarries around the area. A girl Id had my eye on for
quite some time got to talking with me about it one day (she was a waitress at a
local diner I used to frequent for breakfast). She seemed interested in learning
how difficult it was to put on all that heavy junk and go swimming with the fishies.
So we made plans to go to a nearby quarry near Lake Erie and I would show her
how its done.
For me, that afternoon was spent delightfully strapping her bikinied little
bod into some scuba gear and taking her out for a demo dive. Just some shallow
stuff down to about 15 feet so as not to scare her. Those quarries can get pretty
dark and cold even in the summertime. Well, she absolutely loved it and we had
a great time. Even better, I had cleverly positioned myself as the expert at
some cool skill! If you didnt make a big genetic splash in the looks department,
then you have to let her see you doing something that you are competent at,
remember? Competency compensates for average physical attractiveness, and I
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Afterwards we loaded the equipment in the car and drove five minutes to a
nearby lakefront beach bar where we grabbed a plate of clams, some corn on the
cob and a few beers. We found a spot in the sand and watched the sun go down.
It got cool, the two of us snuggled and made out... and that was the start of a
terrific 4 year relationship. And it all began with the absolute best first date that
Id ever had, a date that was hardly even planned when I think back on it. But it
easily could have been, and thats the key!
I firmly believe that this scuba-training lesson + clams and beach party
date worked so superbly because that day we had fun without any manwoman heavy romantic pressure on us. I demonstrated myself to be a fun guy
to hang out with first, and then a possible lover in addition to that. Not only did
this action plan work great for me in that particular instance, but Ive had friends
tell me similar stories... that they always scored big with a chick when they took
her out for a motorcycle ride, dancing, dirt biking, rollerblading, snowmobiling or
skiing in the winter, etc... as their first date instead of doing the tired old dinnerand-movie thing. Remember those Me Cards I showed you how to print up in the
previous section? Theres the basis for your action date right there! Got
several different action-type hobbies (hey, even golf counts)? Then make up
cards for all of them and find out which ones seem to be the most enticing to the
type of women you usually meet. Customize yourself!
I think that being in physical motion paints you in a sexy light because its
masculine to be doing things and taking charge and showing off your skills at
something youre good at whereas sitting around and talking is rather low
energy and possibly even too wimpy-intellectual for a lot of women. It just
doesnt fly as well, because many women still hold onto the time-honored fantasy
of being thrilled by a man and swept away by him. Im convinced the action date
is the best first date theme there can be because action literally gets her juicedup and many chicks will end up transferring this high energy back towards the
closest guy around.
Oh, that would be you!

Action = Passion
Heres the major problem with heavy romance-style dates... they assume a
level of intimacy that doesnt yet exist. In the old Victorian days it mayve
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view the too-soon romance date as manipulative and cliche the idea that if you
ply a girl with enough expensive wine and chow youll get laid. Seduction and
romance now demand an entirely new approach from what worked in your
parents day. Theres too much cynicism spread around so that even if your
motives are pure (in the sense that they are genuine) they are still highly suspect.
Too many thousands of hours of watching soap operas and movies have
convinced women that men are conniving bastards with only one thing on their
mind and that they are not to be trusted.
I asked several women I know about what they feel is wrong with this sort
of standard romance dating deal straight out of the box, and their answers all fell
along the line of How can a guy take me out and pretend to be all sorts of in
love by treating me to a lovey-dovey big dinner date?... when he doesnt even
know me yet!
Ah-ha... and therein my friend lies the answer: he doesnt even know me
yet. Because no emotional connection has been established, it isnt legal in her
mind for you to be pouring on the romantic charm full volume...yet. It may be
appropriate to do so very soon, but only after a base of mutual attraction has first
been effected. How to bring about this attraction is the key to everything. The
first step is to demonstrate that you can be a fun guy to hang out with then you
can expand this to position yourself as a hot guy to fuck as well.
So if you stick with the theme of action and physical movement youll do
much better because, if youre anything like me, you are far more at ease doing
something rather than yakking about it. Too much talking too soon = danger
of saying something stupid and sinking yourself! Been there, done that.
Now lets have a look at how to avoid a few common first date mistakes.

First Visual Impression

If your social lifes been in solitary confinement for more than a few years,
or youre the kind of guy who only shops for clothes when his pants, socks and
shirts finally disintegrate into a cloud of organic dust, it likely means that
everything you own is far out of date and way behind the current style. Im talking
about a wardrobe that screams guy who never dates women OR gets laid! The
shitty sports windbreaker, ill-fitting jeans, the shirt you got two Christmas ago that
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just because this stuff may be freshly laundered doesnt cut it either. Women
have a weird relationship with clothing that most men have difficulty
comprehending. The clothes we wear are as important to them as a tight female
ass is to us! Ive heard girls remark that they will take a guy and, in their mind,
imagine him dressed in clothes that make him look hot! How bizarre is that? We
men spend all our fantasy time removing the clothes from the women we know
and imaging them naked, whereas they fantasize about dressing us up!
If there is a more clear example of how the female and male brains are
wired completely differently, I dont know what it is!
So if you think its okay to show up looking like you just rolled out of a
fashion time capsule, its not you will go down in value in her eyes immediately.
She probably wont be so bold as to call you on it, but the silent damage is done.
This is so easy to fix, all I can say is just do it! Buy some popular mens
magazines, check out the fashions and invest in at least one good currently
stylish outfit for yourself. Spring a few bucks for a leather jacket as well. You
cant go wrong with leather, women really dig it. Or, you can take the slick route
and go for the snappy suit. (Of course, the date will have to be formal enough to
warrant using it.) Always dress appropriate for whatever youre doing with her.
You can go casual if youre taking her out sailing or surfing (remember those Me
Cards?...).
As long as its appropriate its a plus for you rather than a negative. Thats
the big signal hidden in your appearance: I have a brain thats tuned into popular
culture and its working properly. You want to look like you venture out of your
bear cave once in a while.
Most men are unaware, incidentally, that shoes are a really big deal with
women. Yes thats right, I said shoes. I know, I know... there was a time when
my own complete shoe collection consisted of a pair of dirty sneakers, black
dress boots (the kind that go with dirty jeans) and clunky winter boots. Thats it,
done. Why women give a shit about the shoes youre wearing is beyond me, but
they all universally seem to feel that they get some kind of highly important read
about a guy from the kind of shoes he wears, especially on a date. Every woman
Ive talked to about this subject confirms this idea (although they cant seem to
explain why... only chick brains apparently understand this oddity of nature). So
it would probably be a good investment to get yourself a happening pair of new
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whenever you happen to be reading this, which could be years from the time Im
writing it -- so youll need to grab your sister or one of her girlfriends or some
other girl you know and drag her down to the mall with you.
Have her take you around to the appropriate stores and dress you up in the
coolest threads, then nab a couple of pairs of shoes and/or dress boots or
whatever to go along with it. Chicks know about shoes and clothes and the
hottest mens styles in the same way Einstein knew how to split atoms. Let her
play Ken doll with you for the afternoon and take charge of things. Just make
sure the girl helping you out is 1) single, and 2) the approximate same age as
you. Someone whos out there on the playing field and aware of whats going on,
in other words. You dont want your mother in on this mission or the old married
broad from across the street whos sole experience at dressing men for the last
ten years has been wrapping her henpecked husband in checkered clown shirts
from the WalMart SuperSaver aisle. Know what I mean?
One caveat: try to keep your dress style consistent with the image youre
trying to create for yourself like we talked about before. Stick with something you
can feel comfortable walking around in, otherwise youll get all self-conscious and
your confidence will falter. Be who you are, just put some polish on it. If you nail
the clothes and shoes test then youve at least scored high for first visual
impression, which is an important part of the total seduction job.
And finally, keep the way you dress appropriate for the activities youll be
doing on your action date, just make it as stylish as possible. An Armani suit
looks ridiculous on the golf course or ski slope.

Flowers and Candy?

Absolutely not! To some of you guys this might be obvious, but I get
enough questions about this subject that I need to briefly address it here.
Romantic gifts are strictly reserved for after youve had sex with a woman and
heres why: it all has to do with power. In the beginning of the relationship, the
woman holds all the power because it is the man who is doing the courting. The
man pursues and the woman is the prize being sought after, thats how the
players line up. And the prize is always considered more valuable than the
treasure hunter chasing after it, right? Even though you are in the supplicant
position however, you must allow your disadvantage to show through in only the
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insists on it, but you must do it just enough to demonstrate your possible romantic
interest and no further.
Guys think they can cajole their way into the puddy parlor with a cute little
gift of roses on the first date, but gifts only work if the power issue is way in your
favor. If you are a super-mighty-mega High Status Male, you can get away with
any sort of graciousness because it comes across as magnanimous and
altruistic. If the King courts the lowly peasant girl, she is flattered and
overwhelmed by his attention. All his gestures seem magnified in their allure -but its not the gifts that get to her, it is the alpha male power aura of the King!...
Poor little girl... I could dominate and mistreat you so easily, but look at what a
gentle soul I am instead. See that? The powerful HSM can make these sorts of
gestures and not surrender any of his status, because the little peasant girl isnt
swayed by the gift... shes dizzy from being in the presence of such a powerful
Man. Its him and his aura, not the crummy gift, that overwhelms her.
On the other hand, ordinary poor working slobs like you n me dont get this
kind of pass when we choose to arrive bearing gifts. It makes us look like asskisses coming forward hat in hand, and our stock begins to drop immediately!
The only exception might be if you bring her something that connects with a prior
conversation the two of you had. For instance, say you were talking on the
phone or e-mailing each other prior to the date and you got to chatting about a
new band that you both dig. Maybe you have their new CD. So you bring the CD
with you and give it to her to listen to later on. You lend her your CD, you dont
go out and buy one for her, understand?
This gesture can work because its an extension of something that the two
of you were already talking about. There was a prior connection already
established which youre reminding her of. The crucial thing is how cool you play
it (or fail to). You must make NO big deal about the gift its just a friendly ol
thing and so what. She puts the CD aside for later, and the two of you are out of
there. Dont have her play a few cuts because you may be tempted to start
singing for her or something!... (yeesh, just kill me now...) Make no further
mention of this gift for the rest of the date, whatever points you did or didnt score
are on the board now and thats that. Again, this is a special exception to the rule
and only if its appropriate because of some prior setup... and you still have to
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Bottom Line: If you show up at her door like Porky Pig blushing with a
fistful of dandelions, youre dead. Understand me?

Setting Yourself Up for the Second Date

Now some of you might be thinking, but if we pal around on this action
date isnt there a danger shell start thinking of me as her buddy instead of a
potential lover? Isnt this whole thing a ticket straight to the friend zone? Not
necessarily, as long as you continue to do those things to communicate nonverbally that you view her as a hot chick and really dig her as a man would. Its
all about your attitude towards her. Faithfully keep flirting and dont start treating
her like your sister!
There will be no second date if you fail to connect with a woman
emotionally on this first date. Keeping the activity level high can create
excitement and a fun experience for her, but that experience will be incomplete if
she doesnt feel the juice between the two of you. The way to make this happen
is to keep her in an upbeat mood as much as possible and mix in a generous
amount of touching and physical contact along the way. Important note to
Type-As: dont get so locked in on your performance if youre supposedly
teaching something like sailing or snowboarding that you scold her or get pissed
off at her. Cool as they may be, the activities we do on these dates are
background noise to the main mission... which is to communicate our fascination
with her as a person and desire for her feminine delights.
Non-stop physical action wont do the complete job of course, youll
ultimately have to talk your way into her heart and pants, but the action date
attempts to avoid the dangers of putting yourself in a situation where all you do is
talk. Heres the big secret of communicating in a way that intrigues instead of
boring her to death: just give out little peeks about yourself. Your passions and
goals, past relationships, family, etc. All that good stuff. Self-revelation should
be done in dribs and drabs, almost a verbal strip-tease to some extent. Make her
think that there's something about you that goes deeper than mere appearances.
Drop little comments here and there hinting at your personal knowledge or
expertise at some skill that she might find impressive... musical talent, business
wheeler-dealer, past athletic achievements, whatever. The idea is to get her
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When she does her postmortem of the date with a girlfriend on the phone
the next day she ought to say something like, "...there's just something about this
guy that's really different..." Women are made crazy by their curiosity about the
men who find them attractive, nothing gets them more perked up. Successful
mystification has now been achieved! The last thing you want to be is an
open book exhaustively revealing everything about yourself so that theres no
mystery left.
This is as bad as shooting off your load in your underwear while hurrying to
get your pants off in her bedroom! Relax, make her wait for it.

The Perfect Ending

One of the stupidest things you can ever do at the end of a first date is to
essentially ask the girl how did I do?. Did you have fun with me? Do you like
me? Do you think Im cute? Yuk! Youre begging her to give you a letter grade
for your performance. Never do this!
But... if you turn this around and do it to her instead you can score some
major points. Dont ever ask how did I do? instead, tell her that baby you did
great!
At the close of the date theres a really great way to end things on a high
note and set yourself up golden for the next time the two of you hook up. The
idea is to give her a kind of grade of what you think about her, but dont use
letters A,B,C or anything ridiculous like that. Always, however, make sure to use
the word impressed. Impressed. You say to her you know what really
impresses me about you?... then you tell her something such as how easy it is
to converse with her, how she slips so beautifully into the proper social role for
the event youre attending. Maybe how brave she is for riding along on the back
of your snowmobile! Whatever. Use your head here and think up something
appropriate based on the sense you have about her. As part of your investigation
(remember that?) you should be taking note of what impresses you about her
character and have this stored in the old memory bank for the end of the
evening. Then find a quiet place or moment where you can both focus on each
other without distraction and say something like this:
( Take her hands in your own and face her, look straight into her eyes
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You know what I find really impressive about you?

What?
How naturally at-ease you seemed all evening long. Its very classy. I had
a great time tonight just being seen out with you.
Now, that might sound like soap opera bullshit when you first read it, but go
back and really think about those words again. Imagine if some girl said those
exact same words to you instead? Close you eyes and run the fantasy, run the
dialog. Ah, ha! Different, eh?
Thats the very same kind of effect you can have on her. When you get
right down to it, shes little more than a pile of quivering Ego just like you and me.
If you feel this sort of verbal transaction is too uncomfortable for a first date,
then youve failed to do enough non-verbal emotional-connecting work! Have
you been touching her and teasing her throughout the date? Why not?
You really know youve sparked up some serious juice if shes reluctant to
let you say goodbye and keeps trying to forestall your departure. Shes high on
the good vibes and wants to keep toking them all night long! Give her an A+ and
a Gold Star for the date. She was fun and exciting to hang with and it made you
feel great! Most every woman will dig this ultimate compliment and reflect some
of these warm feelings right back at you. Thats your in to escalate and go for a
great goodnight first kiss!

What If I Dont Like Her?

Hey, it happens. Sometimes these women are a drag when you get them
out actually doing stuff... bitching and complaining about every little move you
make, whining that its too cold to ski, yada-yada. If shes a pain in the ass now,
it will only get worse when she feels youve sunk in deep enough and that now
youre her man. I say that at the first hint shes loaded with quirks you dont like,
bail out. If you want to try and bang her anyway then nows the time to pull a bold
move and directly ask her to spend the night and fuck since you dont give a
shit if you get rejected at this point anyway, right? This is a risky move normally,
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On the other hand, if you like her and it looks like the feelings mutual, then
youll want to go no further than a passionate kiss and maybe a bit of lingering
make-out, but always leave her wanting more. Draw away and break off the
closeness while its still smoldering. Remember, this is seduction, not speed
banging! Trust me, its better this way. This kind of heat creates the bridge to get
you through the thinking zone that separates the first and second date that
period when she can somehow convince herself that youre not the guy for her.
You want to make sure that theres enough emotion present to affect her
judgement in your favor. Like I speculated in my earlier book, we fall in love
when were away from the object of our desire. She needs to be thinking about
you often during the interval between the first and second dates. She sells
herself on you in the quiet space of her thoughts.
If she comes out on the next date loaded with questions, then you know
youve executed that first date successfully. Shes seriously thinking about letting
you go all the way and needs to know a lot more about you, and so here come
the questions. Trust is a monster issue with women she must feel that she can
trust you or the whole thing is off, and so she needs data. Her focused interest in
you is a great victory!
Youve made a great first-date impression, now youve got to start passing
her tests.
First Date Quick Review 4 Main Things to Remember :
1) Its an Action Date!
2) Dress Appropriately and Stylishly
3) No Supplicating Gifts!
4) Give her an A+ Grade to get her Thinking and Dreaming...

Date #2 The Connecting Date

The second date is the talking date that most men make the mistake of
doing first. It can be a considerably more relaxed affair, as much of the
nervousness and anxiety of that first date is now behind the both of you. Here is
where you will use words and employ the fine art of conversation to strengthen
what was hopefully a burgeoning bit of chemical connection buried in all the
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opening up to a woman and start revealing bits and pieces of your past history
and psychological makeup? When she becomes interested! Until then you are
wasting your time and likely boring the shit out of her. The goal of the action date
is to create a primal-level bond that speaks to deep instincts and unconscious
thought patterns. This entire process acts as the set-up work, the basis of
developing her interest in us as men so that she will be receptive to what we do
next. Now when the two of you trade a few secrets and probe into each others
backgrounds, the delivery will be worth the effort! By that I mean the things that
you will tell her will have far more impact because shes hearing it from a man
that shes beginning to develop some feelings for.
Comfortable might be thought of as the theme for date number two, along
with creating a lasting memory or two. This could occur because of the particular
place that the two of you are at somewhere out of the ordinary and memorable
like an overlook restaurant at Niagara Falls, a nearby state park with some vista
thats exceptional or whatever. Even just a quiet beach bar with a great band
playing in the distance and a perfect view of the sunset can do the trick.
Something imaginative that will stick in the memory long afterward. The setting
doesnt have to be expensive or faraway, just different.
Keep an eye out for such places as youre out and about and write them
down so you wont forget them. A lot of the specific information that you need to
work the women in your particular city or town can be compiled and kept in a
file... places, specific seasonal events, phone numbers to call for tickets,
community events, bistros and nightclubs, etc. Why keep doing all this thinking
up shit over and over again? Just keep a running file and compile a listing of all
these places and events that you can refer to for ideas whenever you need them.
Use your head and plan ahead.
This connecting date should NOT be something like a movie, where the
two of you cant focus on each other. Thats okay for the third date where
closeness is the buzzword, but not yet. Make this one a dinner date in a quiet
place where you can communicate without yelling over the din. Let her talk about
herself as much as she wants while you listen (use your magnificent listening
skills here...). Here and there try to do something that adds to the memorable
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Also be careful not to get so comfortable you start gabbing about your
disgusting illnesses and injuries, or about the fantastically stupid stunts you pulled
in college. You dont want to deliberately paint yourself in a bad light just for the
sake of making her laugh. Its okay to make her laugh, but not too much at your
own expense! Know the difference between a bit of charming humor and the
mistake of describing how you started your nuts on fire while trying to light the
grill at the family picnic last year. Remember theres still a line of male mystery
that mustnt be crossed just yet.

Testing, testing...
Along the way you will surely find yourself having to answer a few of her
sneaky little test questions here and there. One of the big ones might be
something along the line of: "how many women have you slept with? (or
more likely shell say dated, but you know what she really means...). Shes
trying to get a sense of how experienced of a guy you are socially, not necessarily
sexually. Most women dont really care about your sexual-conquest scorecard
unless theyre uptight virgins or demanding nymphos, but they are often curious
about your general experience with women. Thats because inexperienced guys
tend to be clingy and needy and jealous, and she might have done that drill
already and isnt interested in babysitting another character development project.
It also gives her a sense of how much of a catch you might be. Remember,
every relationship youve had acts as a vote by some other women in your favor,
and thats important to her because women love to snatch the hottest guys from
each other. Its like a game with them. Thats why if you happen to be on the
other side of the glass with your sad puppy eyes pressed against the window
youre likely to stay there for a long time. Puppies, they feel sorry for. Low Status
Males get the boot.
But what if your own experience with the fairer sex is, shall we say, limited?
Then use this simple formula:
YOUR CURRENT AGE MINUS 16 DIVIDED BY 2 =
NUMBER OF PAST SEXUAL PARTNERS
Have this number worked out for yourself in advance so you dont have to
start scribbling on a napkin. What this formula suggests is that, during the
sexually active portion of your existence (minus the first 16 years of your life), you
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sexual activity seems normal I would guess, neither too ill-experienced or

absurdly promiscuous. Apply this formula with these two caveats: adjust the
numbers downward if a large portion of this time was spent married. Assume
only one sex partner during the entire span of your married years (even if that
wasnt the case, its certainly none of her business). Secondly, our rate of
acquiring unique lovers generally falls off in early middle age. So figure a new
one every five years after the age of 35 or 40. Use your judgement. Heres two
examples to illustrate for you...
Youre currently 35, got married at 22, and were married for 13 years. How
many lovers have you had in your life?.... Answer : 4
35 -16 = 19 (19 years of possible sexual activity)
19-13 = 6 (for 6 years of it you were single)
6/2 = 3 (3 unique lovers during that time)
3+1 = 4 (3 + your wife equals 4)
At 55 you were married briefly once for 4 years between the ages of 26 and
30. How many?.... Answer : 12
Split the formula into two parts for the younger and older portion of your
life, using age 35 as the boundary:
35 -16 = 19 (years of youthful activity)
19 -4 = 15/2 = 7+1 = 8 (for the first 35 years of your life, the
marriage is too short to affect the count very much. Maybe bump it down to 7 if
youre a stickler for accurate math work)
55 -35 = 20 (years of reduced activity)
20/5 = 4 (for the last 20 years when you began to slow down a little)
8 + 4 = 12 (Total)
Comprende, amigo? (Sorry if I gave you a headache with that...)
You might even want to trim each number down by one or two to adjust for
an extended courtship period with your wife. Whatever. This is not an exact
science so theres no need to work your own number out to seven decimal places
(like I know some of you uber-nerds will be sure to do...) Just a reasonable
answer to get you off the hook of this possible test question without any damage.
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just having this number safely tucked away in your head can have a positive
effect on your attitude. It eliminates any nagging anxiety you might have about
this issue. It can be... clarifying.

Spark Her Up
Lets assume youre seeing the woman who is the object of your attention
for the first time in several days since your action date. Maybe you talked
together on the phone or e-mailed, but now youre hooking up in person again.
The very first thing you want to do is change her state and get her feeling good
about herself. Why? Because you are there! So the first order of business is still
similar to that early phone call in that you have to re-sell yourself a little bit.
Continue to tickle her emotions with lots of teasing and flirting behavior all
throughout the date. Make her feel great about herself remember the power of
charisma! Never forget that seduction is a sales job with yourself as the product
and the first rule of selling is to get the prospect to like you before you can get
him to open his wallet (or in this case I guess, her legs ;-).
The moment you first set eyes on her give her the flirtatious once-over and
comment in an amazed tone of voice about how hot she looks: Wow... look at
you... Im going to feel like a million bucks being seen out with you tonight.
You might even take her by one hand, raise her arm up and give her a little twirl
to playfully check her out from every angle like a cute little ballerina. This move
never fails to surprise and delight and more importantly, kick her into an
enchanted mood!
Remember shes probably been quite nervous ruminating about the date,
fretting over all her supposed flaws... and what a pleasant relief it is now to see
how impressed you are with her appearance (and not afraid to show it!) Now
she can relax... youve broken the tension. More importantly, your stock has just
shot up like Googles IPO! You dialed straight into her silent fears and knew just
how to discharge them... what an amazing guy you are! What will the rest of the
evening have in store for her? Male mystery comes in all shades and flavors... it
isnt just about standing around looking cool remember. Sometimes its all about
being classy.
Finally, be careful not to repeat the same compliments again that evening.
She gets it. You can continue to support this smitten sense that you have about
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and review the High Eyes look on page 104 as an example of what I mean.

5 Critical Steps to Avoiding the Friends Zone

Theres a special set of behaviors which a man engages in when courting a
woman that signals to her his genuine mating intentions. Failure to adopt these
signal behaviors (or do exactly the opposite) fails to elicit any sense of romantic
excitement in her. No heat, no chemistry. There are five fundamental
behaviors which are especially critical to driving home the fact that you are
interested in her in a sexual sense, and not merely an intellectual one. These
help keep you from tumbling into the friends trap. Lets have a look at these
highly important actions right now.
1 ) Dont Let Her Turn You into Her New Girlfriend
There are certain topics that she may try to bring up which you must
immediately stonewall and simply refuse to engage her in. Thats because
these subjects are best discussed with a non-intimate friend rather than a
potential lover. Whatever else you do, resist the temptation to allow her to start
making chick chat with you like she would attempt with one of her girlfriends!
One thing thats off limits for instance, is you listening to her bitch about her
ex-(or worse, current! ) boyfriend or husband. This is not something that you, as
her possible new boyfriend, want to know anything about. Let her go ahead and
gab on the phone all she wants about that asshole to one of her girlfriends, but
not to you. You are not her new gay buddy! Also make sure that she
understands she is not free to confide in you things that paint her in a bad light as
well, things such as gross personal habits, failed relationships, mundane medical
problems and the like. These are things that she wouldnt discuss with a
person with whom she was thinking of becoming intimate. The fact that you
wont indulge in this naked attempt to lure you into the buddy-boy zone makes a
statement about the direction that you intend to take things. It also demonstrates
the kind of self-respect that separates the dominant male from his lesser
counterparts... something that her primal instincts will pick up on immediately and
file away in the PLUS column.
Theres no need to get nasty about this sort of thing either, just tell her
something like, Id rather we didnt discuss this particular topic if you dont mind.
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girlfriends and that youre not interested in hearing about old boyfriends and
relationships, that youd rather look ahead to the future. Then just gently change
the subject and forget about it like it never came up. If this was another one of
her tests, then youve passed it by gently establishing some boundaries with her
and this should be enough. Shell get the hint. If she doesnt, then you need to
consider what type of numbskull you might be dealing with. In effect you are
saying to her, hey, lets at least give this thing a chance and not start dropping
depth charges into the water already!
Other out-of-bounds topics would include things like chronic poor health or
elaborate family feuds, anything that you would normally NOT want to talk about
to anyone that you were trying to impress. Force her to play the game on a
high level and keep everything in romance mode. By this I mean the
pretense of proper presentation that two potential lovers put on with each other,
also known as courting behavior. Any attempt on her part to break this pretense
and steer things inappropriately towards buddy-buddy type talk must be nipped
in the bud. Act swiftly with a deft cleverness that guides the conversation in a
new direction without making a big stink about it. This is a finesse play not
some hammer-headed undertaking designed to scold her or make a big scene
that will only do worse damage. Finesse... where you keep your emotions out of
the way and the larger goals always in mind.
The Final Verdict: anytime you reach the end of the evening and are
uncertain whether or not it seems appropriate to kiss her goodnight or slap her on
the back, then you know youve probably allowed whatever romantic pretense
there was to slip away. Best to just shake hands, say goodbye and throw her
number out when you get home.
2 ) Keep the Sexual Tension Up
The primary dynamic between men and women of reproductive age is
sexual tension. Nature demands that this be so, but we humans often seem
intent on burying our desires by using our higher mental capacities to hide our
true feelings from each other. Fear is the culprit here of course... fear of being
judged inadequate and then rejected... fear of violating some cultural invective
that seeks to restrain the more embarrassing aspects of man-woman relations,
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Lest we forget however, these primal urges and other needs of the flesh
are designed to guide us towards behaviors that insure the survival of our
species. Reducing them below our level of awareness so they dont bother us
leaves only the higher intellect in charge... and we all know what an over-judging,
endless-excuse-manufacturing bastard he is! So these feelings need to be
honored and never suppressed. The trick is to honor them in a way that doesnt
disgust or frighten.
Physical contact for instance can be electric if the tensions have been
steadily building up between the two of you, and is a powerful tool of sexual
provocation. So get into the habit of maintaining constant casual contact with a
woman right from the very first moments or you may find that an awkward
psychological barrier has grown between the two of you that will make it seem
inappropriate to touch her after a while, and that will send things careening off
into a ditch for sure. Closeness cannot just be switched on suddenly at the end
of the night in a desperate grasp for passion if it hasnt been gradually building up
all along. If the table hasnt been set by then its probably too late... so get ready
for the cool cheek-peck dismissal.
3 ) Physical Motion = Sexual Heat
Get up off your ass and dance, god dammit!
Of course you already know by now that theres a genuine connection
between physical motion and passion, the heart will always win out over the
head, if you engage it. How many women wake up the next morning and cant
believe theyre in bed with some guy they only just met last night? Thats
because the dude got them moving and energized and provoked primal
passions that she ultimately lost control over. By the time she applies reason, its
too late... the boundaries of intimacy have already been broken. She may yet
decide in the cold morning light that shes made a big mistake and end up tossing
the dude out the door, but hey... ;-)
Remember too that it will feel more comfortable to take her into your arms
and make out with her if this move is merely a logical extension of the smoldering
passions that have been building. Action creates this kind of energy. Even if
its a relatively quiet date, seize any opportunity you can to get her moving out on
the dance floor or doing something a bit physical. It doesnt have to be a big deal
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difference in how she feels about you by the end of the night. If nothing else, it
will certainly keep you out of Friendsville.
4 ) Dont Be a Problem solver, Be a Problem Creator
This is one that I myself learned the hard way, and not until after having
fucked the duck not once but several times. This land mine is actually easy to
avoid because its all about knowing what not to do. This backwards idea of
being a source of problems rather than a problem fixer illustrates another one of
the key differences that separates friends from lovers and male thinking from
female. For the most part, our friends are a mainspring of comfort and aid to us,
whereas the intimates in our lives are as likely to be a source of aggravation as
they are of great joy and even ecstacy. The difference here is especially
profound in the womans case because the potential to create static or not is part
of the basic criteria that she uses to decide into which category any particular guy
fits.
Heres how it works: problem solvers get slotted into the friends category
(a valuable asset coming moving time or when the sink clogs up), while problem
creators... well, they may piss her off, but hey... is it getting hot in here or what?
See whats happening? The White Knight is cool but he creates no
passion, no buzz. That dirty bastard Black Knight on the other hand, who stiffed
her on that concert date she had her heart set on last Sunday, well... How many
times have you listened to this kind of crap as you played the role of thoughtful,
sympathetic friend? The dude treats her like shit but she sticks with him anyway.
She loves it all for no logical reason. By now you ought to realize that logic plays
little or no role in a womans thinking when it comes to matters of the heart.
Therefore I am telling you at all costs to avoid the urge to become her
White Knight with a Toolbelt by offering to assist with whatever everyday sort of
problems she might be having, from fixing her car to helping her paint the living
room (man did I ever screw up in this regard on several occasions, sheesh...).
Instead, you should think about creating just a bit of what I call Courting Stress.
Forget to return a call every now and then, be late for a date, etc. Just little stuff
is all thats required, no need to start a nuclear war. Things rarely run smoothly
when men and women are first going through the process of negotiating a
courtship. There are always some bumps along the way, some hurt feelings,
misunderstandings or whatever. And you know what?... women love it!

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This is one of the absurdities of the female mentality that many men just
cant seem to fathom. We would like everything to work smooth and happily from
hi, howya doin all the way to the bedroom, but women seem to thrive on
relationship tumult and insanity. It must be some kind of signal to them that
meaningful emotions are crackling through the air! Maybe it somehow satisfies
their need to spar with a dude before allowing herself to be conquered by him?
That son-of-a-bitch did this and that to me, I cant believe what a prick he is...
yada-yada. By next Saturday night shes smoking his bone... while her nice guy
buddy whos been such a helpful and comforting friend to her is home polishing
his meat puppet with the leftover plumbers putty from the new faucet he installed
for her (God, how these memories continue to torture me...)
So please understand the bizarre connection between turmoil, passion and
niceness in the female noggin and try to stay on the correct side of the line, at
least if you desire to end up between her legs rather than in her pocket.
5 ) Be Sexy Without Being a Pervert
Many guys have an intuition (and it is a correct one) that in order to get a
woman thinking about them in a sexual way they have to keep reminding her of
the fact that Im a man and youre a woman. The end game to all this dating
and chatting around is to get busy with the horizontal bop, right baby? While this
idea itself is dead-on, the way in which many guys execute it by using coarse,
sexually overt language is often so clumsy that it gets the woman dreaming all
right... about his execution! Heres what you need to remember:
Sex is always suggested with and in your eyes... never with the use of
your filthy tongue! By filthy tongue of course, Im not talking about your Gene
Simmons-like jawsnake... Im talking about those filthy words that slide so easily
from it!
Talking very dirty or overtly sexual at the early stages is a pretty high risk
play unless shes sending open for business signals all over the place. If she is,
then the hot talk could send her over the edge but if she isnt then you may end
up both turning her off by making yourself sound like a pervert. One important
factor is something that I call pre-heating, a sense that shes already begun to
entertain a few naughty ideas about the two of you. If theres no pre-heating
going on with her yet then these types of sexy remarks will be mostly unwelcome.
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Or not. Yeah I know, another judgement call.

Speaking of using your own eyes in this play, heres how to do it: avoid
talking about sex explicitly... instead, think about it. These internal thoughts will
make themselves visible in your face somehow, however subtly. Allow her to
intuit your erotic imaginings in your eyes. But be careful not to leer! The
expression you want is a look of knowing anticipation, the sort of thing thats
difficult to describe in print unfortunately. (Review Lust Eyes on page 104).
Youll know youve nailed it when you glimpse the tantalizing look in her own eyes
being reflected back at you.
Although there is a time and place for more direct sexual talk and this
generally isnt it, there is one exception to this rule as I already mentioned, and
thats where she starts it first. It could be a green light but BEWARE, this could
also be a test to see if you will drop your charming facade and reveal the genuine
drooling beast lying just beneath the surface. Lots of testing goes on during
courtship of course, and the perv trap seems to be a standard one. Dont take
the bait. She knows youre probably just another horny bastard like most men,
but shes curious to see what sort of control you can exercise over your urges.
The best way to handle sex talk Ive found is to rachet it up in gradual increments
and take note of her reaction sort of like slowly boiling a frog one degree at a
time.

If you can keep these five ideas in mind and execute them as necessary, at
the very least you should avoid becoming her buddy-buddy eunuch-boy with a
date to stop over next Saturday to fix her busted screen door. And that in itself
for a lot of you guys can be a major step forward in your dating life.

Your Behaviors Create a Trance

Alright then, at this point you should still be glowing with positive vibrations
left over from Action Date #1 as long as too much time hasnt passed since then.
If it has, dont forget to spark her up again with a classy, focused compliment like
you did at the onset of your first date with her. Hell, give her another twirl! In
fact, its a good idea to always spark a woman up when you first set eyes on her
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going for awhile. These special little moments that you create are gold deposits
in her memory bank and trust me, women remember everything! You never know
when something that you consider a nothing, throwaway move like opening a car
door for her or something will score major points in her mind. Everyone is
different in how they process reality, and this goes double for women.

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This spark-up deal should always be a somewhat reserved, Im just really

happy to see you again sort of action dont let it de-volve into something all
slobbery and kiss-ass. However, no matter what you mayve read elsewhere,
compliments are not automatically subservient as long as you are classy and
genuine with them (and dont repeat them over and over too much). Its all in
how you deliver the compliment with a solid HSM attitude which communicates
the underlying message: I am a powerful, accomplished Man, but gracious
in your presence. Like that.
These types of actions can almost create a very subtle trance working in
your favor. Watch her reaction carefully, observe how she responds to what
youre doing and adjust your moves accordingly. If shes the more straightlaced and no-nonsense low TQ type, then you may wish to trim back a little.
Shes probably a fast study and gets it. But dont think that eliminating these
moves altogether is best, it is not. She still needs to have romantic signals sent
her way, but do them subtly and without fanfare. They will make a greater impact
on the more sensible-minded. If on the other hand shes more the starry-eyedtype and really just drinks it all up when you make a fuss over seeing her (High
TQ), then its safe to make a bigger deal over the spark-up.

Hypnotic Impressions
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accomplish for a moment. During the human mating ritual, all the actions and
movements of the male attempt to create a pattern that the female will recognize
as something vitally important in her environment that she should pay attention
to. That something of course is the fact that an opportunity to satisfy the
primary biologic imperative of reproduction is at hand. Powerful instincts that
reside deep within her unconscious mind compel her to respond with interest
even if her rational mind is telling her to ignore whats happening. Its important
to understand that women cannot control the fact that these instincts will pop up
they are hardwired into their old brain. She may consciously decide to fight
them for some reason (youre not her type, etc.) but she cannot stop them from
setting off alarm bells. You can control the appearance of this reaction in her
with your behavior.
In effect then, your behavior can be used as a tool for hypnotic induction.
Now I know that the concept of hypnosis and this subject of picking-up women
are linked at the hip and are somewhat controversial, but Im not talking about
using words and verbal patterns here per se. Rather, by doing a few significant
things here and there throughout the course of the date its possible to animate
her mating instincts very gently, very subliminally. Ive seen this work in amazing
fashion especially with the Hi-TQ types who can end up staring at you longingly
like Sparky waiting for his biscuit by the end of the night!
The triggering behaviors of which I speak are ordinary things such as
frequent physical contact, snuggling, speaking in a conspiratorial voice, deep
looks and lots of eye solid contact, casual kissing and just a general non-shyness
about enjoying her as a woman. This behavior is the highest compliment you can
pay a woman, but you actually have to do it with some degree of certainty and
confidence.
For example, there may be moments when you have a chance to rachet
up the closeness but instead of just hugging her, a better move is to lure her into
your arms by presenting her with an inviting pose. Stand facing her with your
arms spread to either side of you propped on some nearby structure. The perfect
setup is a railing, or even better a curved railing like you sometimes find near a
waterfront. Lean your back against it and rest your arms in a stretched-out, open
position in either direction. This inviting open posture compels a woman into your
warm grasp by calling out to her instinct to seek protection from a male. Hold
steady eye contact and when she gets within a foot or so, gently close your arms
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This creates a natural moment to slide into a makeout session!

Think about what youre doing as you manipulate her moods throughout
the night. That calm, soft-talking, seductive speech pattern with controlled
movements is designed to draw her into a romantic state. If she starts getting
frisky pick up her lead! Always stand ready to toss your plans out the window
anytime she suddenly starts getting hot and heavy its hard to predict when you
might suddenly just click-in for her!
I guess Im saying that you cant figure women. Big revelation, eh? Still, it
seems that after youve performed a certain number of the correct moves most of
them will eventually light up. Thats been my personal experience anyway.
There have been some crash-and-burn jobs too you cant bat .1000 at this stuff
because there are too many screwballs on the loose. These actions Im
describing will stir the pot in a way that makes things interesting though. The big
uncertainty in all this is finding out where the okay Ill do him threshold point is
located for any particular woman. Only she knows where it is your job is to try
and tease it out of her.

Non-Verbal Signs of Interest

As your trance unfolds youll need to adjust what youre doing based on
the feedback that she reflects back at you. Body language is the most genuine
signal that youll ever get from anyone, so you should cultivate an eye for it. Of
course as we discussed earlier, when it comes to females showing signs of
romantic interest there is only one best signal to know about and thats
sustained eye contact. A woman simply will not hold eye contact for any length
of time with a guy who turns her off, plain and simple. Very primal mating signals
are exchanged via eye contact, so women are careful about how they use it.
Therefore you can be sure whatever shes saying with her eyes is significant.
There are two good indications to watch for. One is where she will slightly
widen her eyes as if shes surprised to see you (this is a very good one!). The
other is the turning of the eyes downward, which is the classic signal of female
submission in the presence of a powerful male. If she refuses to meet your eye
while you are trying to engage her she is chilling you out. If this is a first meet
pull-tab type of situation you probably dont have much of a shot. If youre out on
a date with her, then youre failing to connect and youd better change course fast
before you slip into the no chemistry just friends zone.

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I hate to plunk a Simple-Simon list of body language signs and signals on

you because human mating behavior isnt always so cut-and-dried as this sort of
list may suggest, but I realize that guys of all ages will read this book and some of
you dont have a lot of social experience, so this stuff may be helpful. Just keep
in mind its a good idea to avoid placing too much weight on any single signal. It
usually takes a cluster of signs to get a good read. Like so:
Hey, I'
m Interested...

No Sale!

Solid eye contact or repeated

glances your way
Slits her eyes at you (sexy!)
Posture is relaxed
Preens and adjusts hair
Faces her body toward you
Tilts head to be cute
Licks her lips

Tight Lips
Fleeting or No eye contact
Displays wedding ring
Posture is stiff
No concern for appearance
Sagged shoulders

First Conversations Signals that tell you how youre doing....

Keep Talking baby...

Keep on Walking!

Alert and bright-eyed

Flashes her palms
Dangles a shoe
Touches you frequently
Loosens collar or clothing
Leans forward into your personal space

Tapping restlessly
Shows back of hand
Leans away from you
Never touches you
Tightens clothing

And so on and so forth. Incidentally, more than a few women have told me
that guys whom they were signaling to make a move on them had blown their
chance by going for a dumb pick-up line instead of just coming forward and
saying hello simply responding to her call without leaning on a lot of goofy
tricks, which shows a lack of confidence. So try not to be too clever and out-think
yourself a good opportunity can quickly turn to smoke simply because you dont
believe its possible that a particular girl could be interested in you. Have some
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One final point before moving on: how to handle her shyness. Deal gently
with any possible shyness you may detect in your date the same way in which
you would want someone to handle yours... by NOT pointing it out! Dont make
any direct note of her reserved behavior, directly asking her why she seems so
quiet or anything of that sort. Shy people may be secret attention whores, but
they hate having their shyness pointed out to them! Its like casually mentioning
that someones nose is big and ugly. What the hell can they say about that?
The way to put shy people at ease is to draw them into the moment
and help them stay psychologically invisible in your presence. If you make
the shy feel comfortable, they will open up and learn to enjoy your company... and
eventually become endeared to you. More trancing in action! This is an easy
way to score points with shy girls, and dont be surprised if they thank you by
spreading their wings. Sometimes these shy girls can go completely nuts when
they decide to open up sexually to some guy.
Try to keep this bulls-eye pointed at yourself!

Date #3 The Romance Date

Fear is the lock, and laughter
the key to your heart
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Crosby, Stills & Nash, 1969

No Fear in the Red zone

The ball is inside the 20 at the doorstep of your opponents goal line. Just
as in the game of football, the field becomes squeezed in this so-called Red
Zone... events becoming time-compressed on the shortened playing field. In the
charged atmosphere of the third date, things also begin to take on a little different
flavor. Some degree of chemistry and emotional connection should have been
established by now, and so the next phase of the seduction pays honor to the
primary dynamic that defines every man-woman encounter... sexual tension.
While it may take 4-5 dates on average for the typical guy to get laid, youre
not this typical guy any more. By following the plan laid out for you so far and
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those first two dates, youve set yourself up nicely to take things into the sexual
realm now. This is the payoff to dating with a purpose and having a goal in mind
for each date.
My one essential rule for this third date has always been to keep the
evening as private as possible. This is not going to be like that action date you
had a week ago. No big crowds or loud events to create a distracting
background. You will seek to create a focus on each other rather than the
surrounding excitement. This date should be mellow and relaxing, preferably
located in your apartment. There should be an assumed closeness between
you by now with lots of touching and longing looks going on throughout the night
as the passion steadily grows. If youre going to enjoy a restaurant instead, then
it would be a good time to spring for an upscale one (beware the oranged duck!).
If youre going to invest a few bucks in a seduction then doing it on the third date
rather that trying to impress some chick who couldnt care less on a first date is a
much smarter play. Look for a setting that creates a fantasy atmosphere that she
can get caught up in. Quiet and cozy with a lounge like a jazz bar or something
of the sort. She should be right on the edge of letting go with you sexually, and
this is the perfect way to gently encourage her along.
There must be absolutely NO conflict whatsoever on this date! No
Blind Date-style nitpicking or seeing who can be the most stubborn about
choosing the wine or any bullshit like that. This is a magical night that will end in
your first lovemaking if things go well, so make it memorable. Avoid all
contentious topics of any sort politics, religion or anything where personal
opinions are required to keep the conversation popping. Instead, allow
yourselves to dream about future (non-sexual) things that youll soon be doing
together, places you would like to visit or experience as a couple, etc. Fun stuff
only!
Keep a lid on any and all judgmental crap this evening as well it will only
spawn bad feelings that lead to a complete breakdown of everything youve been
working towards. Everything she does tonight is fine with you... you catch all
problems in your soft hands and make them disappear! Its important to resist
putting forward a half-assed effort at this stage when youre getting close, simply
because you think that will make it easier to excuse any failure afterwards. Fuck
all that self-sabotaging horseshit... its time to drive hard now and put the ball in
the fucking end zone! Keep your head straight. No fear!

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You need to possess a steely determination to see this thing through to the
conclusion you desire, and that could mean embracing your most selfish,
darker instincts. If youre one of these people-pleasing nice guys who doesnt
want to hurt anyones feelings you will fail. Not enough push. You have to
become the kind of selfish prick that you probably hate... the guy who gets what
he wants because thats all he cares about and to hell with everyone else! You
know him, you hate him. And now you have to become him!
Im not telling you to act like some kind of asshole or to start putting her
down (neg hitting), I mean you have to quietly refuse to let your fear or her
resistance throw you off track. She could be uncertain of exactly how she would
like to see things to go down, so its got to be your job to keep the passionate
momentum moving along on this date. Your job. This is why I insist you need to
be somewhat selfish. I know this kind of goofed-up thinking isnt a problem for all
of you guys reading this, but for many of you it is so Im trying to hammer it out of
your skull right now!
Start thinking of your masculine attention as a gift. Thats right, youre
giving her a gift... a gift of yourself, of your desire and of your eventual love. If
you can manage to re-frame everything youre doing in this magnanimous way, it
will give your unconscious mind a green light and will go a long way towards
making all your actions seem natural. Remember how we talked about modeling
the kind of emotions and attitudes we want to see being reflected back towards
us?
Everything flows from the controlling influence that you exert with the force
of your Will, either positive or negative. If you choose the path of fear and
tentativeness, she will pick up on this vibe and withdraw thinking youre either
not ready to make a move or that you dont like her. If you choose the path of
courage, she will be swept up in your positive romantic energy and things will be
well on their way towards a happy ending!
The key word here is choice get clear on whats happening, understand
your weaknesses and the intrinsic workings of your own mind, and then choose
to be powerful instead. You must believe everything thats about to happen this
evening to be your birthright as a Man and that it will be a gift to her. Get your
head wrapped around this idea, and let it power you forward.

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Benevolent Manipulation
The general premise behind everything that were trying to accomplish on
this romance date can be summed up in two words: psychological manipulation.
No, this is not some mind-control junk, I only mean that you need to model the
kind of mood you desire firmly enough until she picks it up and follows your lead.
Since there is nothing intrinsically sinister in any of this, it is benevolent. Keep
both the verbal (flirting) and non-verbal (body language, touching) signals going
strong all evening long. Show her how you want her to act, but do it mostly with
your own actions. Conversation should be all about fun topics like her future
plans and dreams, interesting experiences shes in the past. Her stuff, get it?
Never forget that all of this attention is your gift to her, right?

Home Sweet Home

This third date is exciting because theres a good chance youll be getting
laid if things go well, so youll need to sweep the stage and polish the brightwork.
And I dont just mean cleaning and polishing yourself, I mean getting your
apartment ready for love! Yes, the absolute best location for this date is your
place (if you can swing it) but it likely needs a once over...
The four areas of concern are the bedroom and bath, and to a lesser
extent the living room and kitchen. Needless to say you should shovel out the
empty beer bottles, stale pizza boxes and assorted dead animals that mayve
gathered around the house. Run the garbage out to the nearest landfill and crack
open a few windows while youre at it too.
The bedroom is key and should be clean, cozy and enticing. A masculine
look is fine, dark cover spreads, etc. But fluff up a few extra pillows and seed
them around. Your bedroom should seem inviting to her, a place where she
wants to dive in and drink up your manly essence and stay the night all wrapped
up and warm and contented. The bathroom should be well stocked with toilet
paper and tissues and other consumables that women tend to need in mass
quantities for some reason, and of course paper cups or clean glasses and soap.
Put some bath oils or even just bubble bath nearby in case you can convince her
to start things out with a nice, sensuous hot bath. A few candles at the ready will
help set the mood. Also, make sure you have lots of big fluffy towels all laid out
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apartment. Make sure all of this presents an inviting visual for her when she first
steps into the bathroom.
If any of this seems incomprehensible to you and youre beginning to feel
woozy at just the thought of doing housework, at least get in there with your HazMat suit and chisel the impacted fecal matter off the rim of the throne, wouldja?
Then spray some industrial-strength disinfectant around liberally. The sink, tub
and head should all be impeccably clean if nothing else. Also, be sure to hide
any embarrassing medications (Cialis, Viagra, Zoloft, Vicadin, Paxil, GHB) or
ointments (Preparation-H, Rogaine, Fleet Enema Kit) that you dont want her to
find in your medicine cabinet. Women are snoopy in this regard.
As for the living area... make sure that the couch or love seat is clear of
debris and made to look inviting with a few cozy pillows, etc. Have some soft
background music standing by and loaded into your stereo. You might be doing
lots of making out here before heading to the bedroom, so it should support this
activity comfortably. The kitchen should be stocked with some snacks, ice
cream, something chocolate -- and maybe a couple chilled bottles of wine
(Chablis and Zinfidel are sure bet favorites) and / or a classy beer like Corona or
Heineken. No paper cups... spring for some real glasses made of real glass.
And please, do the goddamn dishes. There is no greater buzzkill than to find
yourself standing awestuck and nauseated before a putrefying pile of 2 week old,
spaghetti-encrusted plates in someones shitty friggin apartment. If you find they
are beyond even something as drastic as sandblasting due to the long term
effects of Jurassic-like fossilization, throw the fuckers out and put a new set on
your moms Christmas list for yourself! Sheesh.
And finally, if your present living situation is such (parents, sub-human
roommates, free-roaming pet tarantulas, etc.) that you cannot bring her back
there no matter what, then call around your nearby no-tell hotels and check out
the vacancy and room rates. You might have to do the old Mr. Smith check-in
deal. Whatever. Just make sure that youre prepared with a plan and
enough cash in your wallet to make where to do it? a non-issue for
yourself.
And fer christsakes, not in the back seat of your car! How sleazy and low
class is that, especially if youre more than 19 years old?

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Whatever you end up doing, do NOT anticipate going over to her place.
She may offer and thats cool but do not count on it. Youre just adding another
unknown X-factor into the mix that could end up putting a blade into an otherwise
textbook seduction. Make sure you have all the accommodations worked out and
ready to go, whatever your plan is. This is totally your responsibility! As an
added benefit, doing all this prep work will make the upcoming date seem real to
you and pump up your subconscious expectations of success. Denying yourself
this kind of positive juice can be a motivation killer, especially if all of this is new
to you.

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If You Can Cook... Do It!

If you can cook a meal at your place, then by all means do it! Ive found
this to be the number one way to impress women. Theres something about a
man cooking that just knocks them on their ass. Ive heard them refer to it as
cute, thrilling, seductive... even amazing. But they mostly all agree that its sexy
in some way. Dont ask me, Im just delivering the mail here. And if you dont
know how to boil water, then my suggestion to you my friend is learn. Get some
cookbooks. Really, you only need to know how to make maybe 4 or 5 meals.
The key is that they should each be a little unique, not just the same sort of
thing you can get at any restaurant. For instance, dont just broil up some fish.
How boring is that? Make her some grilled salmon with cucumber dill salad.
Dont just make chicken, whip up some chicken fajitas. How about an eggplant
tureen for the non-meat eater? Always be sure to lay the big fancy name on
her, its impressive! You think I know any of this stuff by heart? Ha... Im
reading if from a cookbook right now! This stuff is simple, you only need to go
shopping the day before and grab all the stuff youll need. Naturally, try all these
dishes out on yourself first before subjecting other humans to your cooking
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Besides, your first try wont be perfect anyway, so its a good idea to practice
each one.
It would also be a good idea if your 5 dinners spanned the main entree
groups to please every taste... something centered around a steak, a fish,
chicken and a pasta dish. Maybe even a non-meat deal just in case you run
across a cute little vegan (really, how many guys could she expect to be able to
make her a vegan dinner? Youre headed completely off the charts suggesting
something like this... and in a very good way!).
Working from your home lair gives you a chance to show off your
apartment a little, perhaps impress her with trophies (placed discreetly of course),
the new widescreen HDTV, your musical (or other cool hobby) tools of the trade,
etc. You can tailor the environment just the way you want it with the lighting and
background music, coziness and creature comforts, special treats in the fridge
and so on. And most important of all... you can have wine... lots of wine!
This elixir has been the lubricant of love for centuries, so be sure to have a
complete sampling of all the types women like to drink (Chardonnay, Chablis,
Zinfandel) chilled and ready to pour. Make sure you buy the wine that comes with
a cork and not the cheap twist-off, wine-o cap. The decantering with the
corkscrew affords you a chance to act sophisticated. You might not like wine but
its likely that she does, and women can get light-headed pretty quick on the stuff.
So bottoms up dude! Of course, youll run into the occasional stiff who wont
drink anything stronger than Pepsi. In that case youll just have to get by without
the advantage of any adult lubrication. Im personally bored by women like this
but to each his own, so adjust your game accordingly and proceed.
Back to the cooking... (hey, all Great Chefs are men, remember that!).
Invite her over, crack open some vino and get to work on one of your favorite
dishes. The really hard chopping, sauce brewing and other messy stuff should
be done in advance, so youll just be doing the fun stuff like adding the
ingredients together and toking up all the delicious smells. And dont get all analretentive and become one of those got-to-be-done-just-so assholes either... let
her help out and join in on the fun! Instruct her without lecturing (especially if
youre older than her, dont lecture her like a wizened old ass. Try to remember
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Remember youre seducing, not teaching class. Its okay if things clump
together out of order youre the master chef anyway, right? So just quietly fix it
while remaining always of good cheer (aided by the flowing good spirits!). Also,
make sure you dont whip up something thats sloppy and slurpy to eat either
like spaghetti or greasy ribs. Youll both want to keep your composure while
dining, so keep the meal limited to something that can be cut up into small bitsized pieces. This isnt the time for your killer impression of Bluto in Animal
House making like a festering pimple.
Some of you guys may be a bit leery about showing off cooking skills, as
you might feel it looks too domestic, and youre now declaring me to be a big
homo. Nonsense women love guys who can cook. Be completely committed
to showing off your culinary skills whether you just learned them or are an old
timer. Embrace it and be proud! The benevolent manipulation doesnt get any
more delicious.

Negotiating Closeness
At some point after the meal or the entertainment you need to maneuver
her into a situation where you can begin to close the gap of intimacy. This is why
I recommend whipping up a dinner at your place... you can easily toss in a DVD
and move the party to the couch. And dont forget to drag the drinks along too.
You can see why I said that privacy is the major consideration on this date
because the idea is to cross the line with her sexually, and this is a tough move to
make in public.
The moment of first sex forms a line in the sand between men and women.
It is an action bristling with power issues... the relationship power flipping over to
the man soon after this pivotal event. This flip-over isnt a sure thing of course.
Sometimes depending on the personalities involved the woman continues to
dominate, but she can never be sure of that. That makes it still something of a
risk for her and therefore one of the things she needs to fit into the calculus of
her final decision to have sex or not. Does she wish to cede this power right now
and allow both herself and her emotions to become vulnerable to your whims?
First sex anxiety for men is usually related to worries about performance.
With women however, its more about the consequences afterward. How will
things be different between the two of you once she gives it up? She is laying her
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woman youre working mayve been burned before by guys looking to get laid and
flee the scene. This means you could face the ol I think we should wait... deal
as a test of your commitment, so prepare yourself. Whatever you do, dont get
mad! At no point during the initial attempt a man makes to bed a woman does he
reserve any right to get angry at her refusal. The only exception might be if she
were really leading you on with lots of big time teasing and then suddenly pulled
the rug out from under you, but how often does that actually happen? Only once
in my experience, and I turned that into a game that eventually had her begging
for it (ha!... a taste of her own medicine).
What Im saying is that women generally possess some sense of fairness
in this regard, although the occasional man-hater out there might be looking to
take you for a ride. It all depends on if youve given her any real reason to
disrespect you during the run-up to this moment. Pricks and wimps draw this
kind of treatment from women. Still, females hold the right to say no inviolate
and you wont get anywhere either begging or threatening, so you should avoid
either of those extremes as youll only sink deeper into oblivion.
As a man, youve got to view this whole pre-sex cha-cha as an elaborate
game and see any attempts to derail everything as challenges that she creates
within the context of this game. It all depends on who wants to win their desired
outcome worse, you or her. You must only keep up the steady (but not
obnoxious) pressure allowing her to pause things (always view these
momentum stops as temporary) in order to catch her breath and re-gain her
nerve. Then you gently begin to press forward again. Back-off and re-trench, no
big deal. Slide back into making out or whatever stage you were at, and draw her
deeper into your trance. Ive found that if a chick pulls a full-stop the first time you
get hot and heavy with her and you accept it without malice in the spirit of the
game then the next opportunity that you have with her you will get laid. (So I
guess its a four date deal then after all, oh well...)
Once the physical stuff is underway you need to really expand the
experience for her with your words. Nows the point where you start to slip in the
dirty talk and watch how she reacts. Some women go completely nuts when they
hear a guy dirty talking them. Ive had a few of them come right in their pants for
me. Its amazing how orgasm for women is all mental. They just need to have
the proper electrical storm going on in their heads and wham-o they can switch
over into sexual hyperdrive in an instant. I wish I could tell you that placing
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that you can just memorize 1-2-3, but that would be bullshit. You just have to
continue to perform these time-honored physical-emotional actions while
adjusting to her stop-go signals along the way. If you play her game like a good
sport, youll get there. She simply needs to complete this ritual to her own
satisfaction a ritual that probably goes back to before when humans could even
speak to one another. (Ugh-ugh... get out the club!)
Remember that your voice forms an important power tool of seduction.
Almost more importantly than your words however is the pacing and tonality in
which you deliver them. Inflection carries with it a deeper level of communication
than language itself, and people have developed a keen sense of the feelings
and desires that lie beneath someones words. The man / woman sexual
dynamic is especially energized by the subtleties of inflection. Therefore you
always want to maintain a low, alluring, sexy tone in your voice during much of
the evening. This should be a different sexier you tonight than shes seen before!
Keep up this light, teasing, sexy, flirting banter all night long and especially now.
Just a little bit here and there, like turning slowly on a tiny screw to wind a
watchspring... click... click.
There comes that perfect point where your passions are both about as
agitated as they can get with clothes on, and thats the time to make the jump to
nudity. Heres a tip based on something Ive observed with near 100% accuracy - when you hear her voice crack, you know youve set the hook and its time to
begin reeling her in. This signal is involuntary almost to the point of it being
embarrassing to her, but its never failed me! You know shes feeling the sexual
tension to the point where its beginning to have a physical effect on her. Her
nervous system is moving towards DefCon 5!
Thats when your own desire must come boiling out in words... something
along the line of, I cant stand it any more, I need to feel you so badly. Lets get
these clothes off!. Or maybe, I just have to taste every square inch of your body
right now, I cant take it any more.... This sudden switch to dirty talk, this shock,
PLUS the admission that shes now driven you to the outer limits of self-control,
are vitally important. All women recognize this to be their decision point for
crossing over into physical intimacy. Heres how you make this work for
yourself: allow the woman to take you up to your absolute limit at her own pace
(and it can be an excruciating one) and then admit that shes won! Theres
something about having her sense that youre about to lose you masculine
veneer that finally tells her brain enough is enough. You submit to her female

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power at that moment and I would give you 5 to 1 odds that shes going to give it
up right then and there. This has to be tried to be believed so dont cheat
yourself of the chance to see this magic at work for yourself.
One warning: if you lose your nerve at anytime during this final
approach to landing, you are dead. Chicks will panic and withdraw if they even
begin to sense that you are having second thoughts about going all the way, and
they will beat you to the punch. You have to completely sell out here to gamble
big, and that means youll end up with major blue balls if you lose, but thats the
game we play. The worst part is that if you cave in to your fears now all could be
lost not only for tonight but possibly forever. You will likely find that shes gone
cold fish next time you call. This is now a woman who feels that shes been
rejected and has therefore emotionally disconnected from you. Game over. Ive
been down this shameful road as well. Its tragic and unnecessary.
Therefore, any tactic you can employ to compel her to have sex with you
that night is fair game as far as Im concerned... the soulful looks, the wicked
teasing, take her dancing all around the edges of a nasty fantasy-trip. Getting her
all laughing and ticklish... the thrill of first sex hanging unspoken in the air like a
delightful pink elephant floating above your heads! All that good stuff of which the
ride of life is made as sweet as it ever gets.
So do whatever it takes to get her to accept your gift! Keep the pressure
on steady but not overbearing. Make sure she understands that you dig her as a
Man and not a platonic buddy-boy.
If a woman gets the vibe that you are serious about going all the way
with her that night, she will likely allow herself to submit, at least to some
degree. Maybe only some head or a handy for now but hey, its a start. And by
using some of the tactics that youll find in the following section you may be able
to pull her farther down the road of lust than shed planned on going, who knows?
Some chicks have to start slow. But you make everything all right with your
cheerful soft hands that catch all problems like a feather, right?
Win a big chunk of her trust, tease with the unspoken promise of molten
sex, have a private, relaxing place ready to accommodate your shared lust, and
most importantly, put out strong signals that you are serious. Do all this and
youve arranged everything as best you can to get the result that you desire.
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your best shot youve controlled those things that are within your control, and
now she has to decide to play along or not. And thats always her final call.

Section Summary:
Heres an Overview of the 3 Date Master Seduction
1) Create an Image for yourself along the lines of your chosen theme.
2) Investigate by listening for clues to some romance or sex fantasy of
hers that you can use later on in the seduction.
3) Press forward and Escalate towards intimacy in a steady and
reasonable manner on each and every date.
On that First Phone Call...
Re-sell yourself all over again
Control her mood, get her laughing and thinking fun thoughts
Strike when the iron is hot!... ask for the date in a specific fashion.
Three things to go over before every date:
1 ) Is my dress and attitude ready to support my image?
2 ) How do I plan to escalate the intimacy and passion?
3 ) Am I in a playful and fun mood and ready to flirt?
All the ideas you'll ever need for places to go and things to do on dates can
be drawn from a blend of two basic sources:
1) A list of things that you would like to do, but never get around to
actually doing because you feel foolish doing them alone, or because they
would be more fun if you had someone to share the experience with. Keep a
yellow pad handy, and anytime something pops up that fits this category write it
down for future reference. Then you can go over this list for ideas when you get
a dating opportunity and you're ready to make that first call.
2) Something consistent with the type of image you are attempting to
project about yourself, i.e., a biker rally if you're trying to come across as the
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Date #1 The Action Date

Primary Goal : Action = Passion! When shes jacked on adrenaline,
you look more handsome and seem more powerful to her.
Secondary Goals : Connect with her primally, Establish your image.
You want to make the first date a fun thing that involves some kind of
physical action so that the entire time isn't spent facing each other across a
table endlessly yakking away. This is how you get into trouble with your big
mouth... too much self-revelation too soon. It busts your male aura.
The way to produce a great finishing kick is to give her an A+ and a Gold
Star "grade" for the date. She was fun and exciting and made you feel great
just being seen out with her... what a classy move!
Date #2 The Connecting Date
Primary Goal : Emotional Connection
Secondary Goals : Create a Lasting Memory
There should be absolutely NO conflict whatsoever on this date!
Staying out of the Friends Zone:
1 ) Don't Let Her Turn You into Her Girlfriend
2 ) Keep Up the Sexual Tension
3 ) Physical Motion = Sexual Heat
4 ) Don't Be a Problem solver, Be a Problem Creator
5 ) Be Sexy Without Being a Pervert
YOUR CURRENT AGE MINUS 16 DIVIDED BY 2 = NUMBER OF PAST
SEXUAL PARTNERS (just in case she asks...)
Deal with any possible shyness you detect in her by NOT pointing it out...
either by commenting about her character or how she seems to be behaving in a
shy manner or anything of that sort. Shy people are secret attention whores but
they chafe at having any attention focused on their shyness. Their shyness is
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Date #3 The Romance Date

Primary Goal : Make Sex Seem Inevitable
Secondary Goals : Romantic escalation; Assumed Closeness
Always remember that a womans romantic world is defined by eye contact.
Deep longing looks communicates that you hold her in special regard. The
promise of hot sex should never be spoken of directly... instead, tease her with
wicked, sexy looks from time to time.
Make sure she understands that you are serious about wanting to
escalate things sexually. This is YOUR job!
If she senses that you are serious about going all the way that night, she
will likely allow herself to submit to some degree. If she gets the opposite vibe
however, that you aren't sure of what youre doing, she will pull a panic move and
withdraw. Therefore you MUST NOT allow your fear to ruin you! You must
possess a steely determination to see things through to their conclusion, and that
may mean embracing your most selfish, darker instincts. Once you hit the
Red Zone it has to be a steady drive for the goal line. Nothing else will get it
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I only hope that I wont disappoint you,

When Im down here
on my knees.
Sweet Surrender.
Is all that I have to do...
Sweet Surrender
Sarah McLachlan, 1997

ow its time for the final stage of the seduction, the part that really seals
the deal and completes the long enjoyable journey from indifferent strangers to
intimate partners. The issue of sex and sexual tension is the 300 pound elephant
in the room that men and women often pretend isnt there, but looms as the most
powerful driving force behind most all of their interactions. This is especially true
if they havent actually had sex yet but are on a glideslope to do so very soon. At
this point, you have to decide if you really want to go forward or not. You are
playing with human emotions and people can get hurt bad.
Look, women can seem evil and teasing, heartless and cruel when you
cant get close to one they can even interfere with your ability to feel like a Man.
Without one in your life your identity fails to complete a full circle somehow. This
is the murky ground where a lot of dark emotions are given rise. Heres
something I learned about women the hard way not once but several times...
dont ever allow yourself to believe that you have any sort of genuine relationship
with any girl before you actually sleep with her. Many of you are laughing now
and probably thinking, no shit Sherman... who would do that? Well, my hand is
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In our social isolation, its easy to lose touch with certain aspects of
romantic reality and, before long, even the slightest kindness can get distorted
by your own obsessive need for affection and get blown all out of proportion.
Some of you might know what Im talking about, the rest can be thankful you
dont. It was my emergence from that dark passage that prompted me to write
my first book. Mainly it was the dilemma presented by the issue of friends vs.
lovers... why do so many of the women that I lust for allow me to get no closer
than a platonic friendship? The closer I get to a female friend, the more I want to
fuck her. So why isnt it the same with her?
The answer as best I can figure is that women simply don't want to risk
ruining what they consider to be a quality friend-style relationship with a guy by
having sex with him. Ruin! So if they decide that you would make a better friend
for them than a lover, they dont push the issue.

And thats why YOU have to!

This is a great example of the diametrically opposite thinking styles of men
and women. It also hammers home why, if you havent been getting laid lately, it
may be because youve been failing to drive the ball hard enough in those last
few yards. Only under the rarest of circumstances will a girl ever dig you so much
that shell take over the seduction and do this job for you. That girl is a home run
in the sense that she will absorb much abuse and still remain sexually submissive
to you not that I am advocating that you abuse anyone. The powerful male can
afford to play fair.
I can tell you right now that whenever I didnt push hard enough to get a
girl into bed it never just magically happened for me. Some guys have this kind
of magnetic finishing power with women, and some of us do not. Therefore I say
that you as the male must be the one who must apply the driving force towards
the bedroom at every step along the way or it just isnt going to happen.
Once lost, the momentum to have sex is very difficult to recapture, and in
fact dont ask me how its done because Ive never personally pulled this
particular trick off. Anytime I failed to push straight through the first couple of
dates and try for sex, I always ended up stuck in a friends-only relationship with
the girl from which I never recovered. All the sex Ive ever had happened with
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Some of you guys might not have any problem once youre this deep into
the process maybe the meeting part is the most difficult for you and by the time
you get this far youre already on cruise control. But I know that a lot of guys
complain they can get dates but are unable to maneuver the girl into having sex
much of the time. I think thats mainly because you lack the knowledge or
willpower to keep the steady pressure going... because youre more concerned
about not scaring her or hurting her or youre otherwise trying so hard to come
across as a gentleman that you forget all about the man part!
Its why I keep hammering away on this idea of learning to be selfish for a
change rather than always being content to wear the role of the martyr and have
people feeling sorry for you. The beautiful loser. The jerk is selfish, and thats
why his batting average is better than yours. Thats his big secret. You need to
put a stake in the heart of this self-defeating bullshit and get on with living your
life. Its not an endless joyride you know the clock ticks away.
The idea of sexually enchanting a woman is mostly one of gentle
persuasion on your part, performed by leading her along a pathway of steps and
stages that act to deepen the intimacy. Feed her thrills and absorb her fears.
There are no 100% success guarantees, but I can guarantee that if you dont
provide the impetus to keep things moving along she will interpret your reluctance
to press for sex as a rejection of her sexual charms, and you will lose by default.

The Trance of Romance Revisited

In my previous book I talked about something called the trance of romance.
It might be a good time for a review of this mysterious element of seduction right
now, as it really begins coming into play when you make your final approach to
sex. Keep in mind the idea that seduction is all about benevolent manipulation
like I discussed earlier and that you must remain aware and focused on the big
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The word trance is something of a loaded term regarding this subject

because it invokes the idea that youre trying to compel a person into doing
something against their Will. Nothing so sinister here. Romantic trance is mostly
about allowing yourselves to be swept away by scary passions that you might
ordinarily try to repress. Its your task to create this passionate floodgateopening situation and guide her through it... using actions such as tender and
then deeper kissing, massaging & fondling, slow stripping, playful biting, etc.
Model what you want her to do! The trick is to use fewer and fewer words as
the process advances, and more and more bolder action! Tactile sensations
speak directly to her subconscious mind whereas words can be a gamble late
in the game. Again, personal experience.
Fears can arise when she starts feeling the hot breath of impending sex.
She may conjure up all manner of lame protests but never misinterpret these
little speed-bumps as true rejection, they are merely playful posturing. A ritual the
female feels compelled to force upon the excited and turgid male (eeeuww... I
feel like Im writing a cheap romance novel now...). Gently accept her invitation
down the road of ecstacy and keeping pressing forward. Use clear judgement...
back off when necessary, then resume your actions once she seems ready to
advance the game further. This is the moment when the neurochemical high you
are both chasing is about to consume you... if you let it!
One powerful way to put her fears at ease is to assume responsibility for
everything thats about to occur. Women love blaming men for whatever
happens to them one way or another, but this is a situation where you
deliberately want her to blame you. When it comes to initiating that first
episode of Sex, its always got to be your fault. This means the role of big
nasty instigator is always yours. Shes looking for you to give her some kind of
an excuse (which acts as implied permission) to do this deed, so she can justify
the whole thing in her own mind tomorrow after the smoke has cleared.
Therefore, you must be the bad guy... the one who is to blame for all this vulgar
seduction stuff helplessly luring her into the clutches of erotic congress! This web
you weave creates your romantic trance.

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Custom Designed Sexual Seduction

A quick review the steps that have led us to this point: youve met the girl
by projecting the sort of attractive vibe that makes you seem valuable and
intriguing... made contact and got some juice popping, got her number and resold yourself enough to get through that first phone call without stepping in a shit
pile. You then went on that first action date and got some energy flowing... did
the mellow second date and connected with her on a more emotional / mental
level... set up the third date by creating the proper background and privacy
environment to encourage warmth and intimacy with her... which bring us to the
present moment.
Youve spent some time relaxing together after sharing a meal, youre both
vegging out in front of the TV, maybe getting a little high / drunk and hopefully
making out and perhaps feeling her up a bit. Youve been feeding off her signals,
and taking full responsibility for pushing the ball forward. Maybe before we get
too deep into this we should step back and take a look at the big picture for a
moment. Remember, this isnt just about getting laid its about seduction and
ultimately her sexual enchantment. Insofar as getting laid for this first time on
date #3, which is merely the beginning of this whole process, its really based a
combination of 4 factors three of which you can control to a large extent, and
one that is impossible for any man to ever control the way he would like to:
1) The background environment
2) The mood youve established
3) Your behavior towards her
4) Her mood that she brings along to the date
As you can see, the first three factors are pretty much under your control.
Weve just talked about establishing a suitable background thats private and
comfortable enough for sex to happen. You set the mood with the proper lighting,
use of booze, cozy meal, etc. Or, some similar situation such as a mellow jazz
bar in a hotel lounge with a room and a waterbed waiting for you upstairs. And of
course, you are in charge of your own behavior and emotions this evening. Only
her mood is impossible to manipulate, the mood that she happens to bring with
her to the date. You can try all sorts of stuff to pull her up from a down or bitchy
mood, but if her temperament is too strong and she fights you its pretty much a
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clown while attempting to coerce her into an upbeat mood or even worse slip into
any sort of whiny, begging behavior. Hold onto your dignity and live to fight
another day!
In any case, by controlling those 3 factors as best you can youve
maximized your chances of doing the horizontal bop. In principle its that simple
though in practice it can be tricky because women are the ultimate x-factor and
their behavior can careen off in some pretty weird directions. This is especially
so when you add in the stress of having sex with a new guy. Shes nervous,
shes scared... and scared translates into nutty, irrational behavior in some
women. So you have to cut her some slack and use those soft hands to absorb
her kooky actions and quell them whenever necessary. Youre a big sponge, you
absorb everything she throws at you without getting flustered because youre a
cool and collected HSM, right?
Getting her to yield to your long term desires means maneuvering her into
a place where she completely laps up everything that youre about your
interests, plans for the future, sexual proclivities, personal dreams and goals.
Then you know you have her heart and soul! You can manipulate her into this
position by making yourself into the best lay that shes ever had and the
secret to that is customizing each experience for her by tuning yourself into
what she seems to dig the most and then amplifying those things in your
lovemaking.
Superlative sex for most women can be defined as sex that is erotic in a
way that she digs rather than considers to be perverted. Ive found that women
are more about the total fantasy thats being created than just the excitement of
getting naked with someone new. Remember all that investigating you were
doing earlier... all that conversing and exchanging of life stories on that mellow
second date? Use them now to design a knockout fantasy for her. A place, a
situation, background props or maybe even a porno DVD if she seems like the
type who could handle it without wigging out. Something with an actual story that
draws her in slowly (I recommend a couples movie like almost anything from
Candida Royale... rather than one of your own personal favorites like Choke On
My Load #7 ). Leave it somewhere sort of half-hidden near the entertainment
center where she can accidentally stumble upon it. Its an amazing sexpositive adventure, youll enjoy it... This sneaky little trick works maybe half the
time Ive found... just make sure that its tasteful porn only.

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Or maybe she would dig a certain type of background music (this ones
easy) or a certain food treat... yada, yada. You see, this doesnt have to be
anything unbelievably spectacular or expensive, only special in the sense that it
connects up with something that shes previously hinted at as being hot. Maybe
shes never done it with a pair of heels on, or in a bathtub or Jacuzzi. Who
knows? Well, you do if youve been teasing her with sexy conversation, and
listening carefully for her Fantasy Clues!
And trust me, you will score big points for seeming like a guy who listens!
This may seem like a lot of nit-picking, but Ive found that the best sex
always happens when you can make the whole thing custom special for her
somehow. It can set the stage for that servant / slave mode some women
switch into which turns them into complete sex machines. They soon want it as
much as most guys do with the exception that they only want it so badly from
their Man. And that will soon be YOU with any luck! Incidentally, sexual
enchantment is something that you ought to reserve only for the most worthy of
women that you really need, not to just bag, but bond to. Use this stuff casually
on every fatty Patty that you want to just bang-and-dump and youll find them
sleeping on your doorstep! So beware.

Her Sexual Enchantment

Alright then, however things have ultimately worked out insofar as the
specifics of the date are concerned, the two of you should eventually find
yourselves alone and cozily ensconced in some private setting. Your apartment
is always best since you have controlled this environment and hopefully
maximized its seduction potential ahead of time otherwise youll have to abort
the process of getting her hot and bothered at just the moment she could be
ready in order to transport yourselves to a more private locale. This is a bad deal
because the time gap will likely break the trance and give her conscious mind
enough time to take control and possibly throw up a wall of fear and resistance.
For instance, if you end up having to drive her back to your place youd
better make out with her at every red-light in order to keep the coals of lust from
cooling off too much. Regardless, from this moment forward your goal should be
her complete sexual enchantment... with the end result her becoming bonded to
you heart and soul (if thats what you want).

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Your Background
Environment Checklist :
1) A darkened room mood-lit with a few candles or
dimmed lighting
2) Food and/or booze is important because the satiated
state that exists after a good meal supports sexual
arousal. Your brain is pre-adjusted into a chemical
pleasure mode.
3) A cozy couch or love-seat for kissing, petting and the
beginnings of sex play
4) Shut Each and Every Phone, Pager, Cellphone
and Blackberry that You Can Find OFF!!!
I consider that last point to be extremely important as you can obviously
see. Nothing can screw up your Trance of Romance faster than when some
friggin cellphone goes off at the perfectly wrong moment! Get rid of that
thing! Whats with this idea that we all have to be available to everyone 24/7
anyway? Its bullshit. Ninety-nine percent of phone calls are worthless
yabbering. Call me back or write me a fuckin letter! People have gone out of
their minds with this eternal comm-bubble crap. One of the most crucial elements
of this third date is privacy, right? Well, just because youre alone with a chick
somewhere doesnt mean that youve achieved any privacy as long as some joker
can butt into your action!
Its also very important to get her cellphone shut off as well. Thats
actually more critical to control because any call-in she gets will surely mess
everything up (her dopey sister cant find the dogs new purple leash or some
other stupid catastrophe that couldnt wait...). Sneak into her purse and quickly
shut the ringer off while shes in the john if you have to. Im sorry but those damn
things are an absolute scourge when trying to hook up. They make it possible
for every asshole and his brother to cock-block your carefully-crafted trance and
destroy the mood that youve worked hard to create... faster than you can
download a funny fart ring tone!

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Okay, so once all the dining and chatting has run its course, it is time to
begin that gentle drift into the movie / music / wine relaxation mode. From this
point on you should talk very little. Smile ever so slightly and give her a light kiss
on the lips, draw back and look into her eyes deeply and then move into more
longer lasting and more passionate kisses. Make sure that you pay close,
lingering attention to her ears and the nape of her neck, as these are very
sensitive erogenous zones that can send potent chills of lust and horniness
zipping all throughout her entire body. This is where the physical affects the
emotional profoundly.
Once you have begun this magical transition from the verbal to the
physical, dont break the trance by reminding her of anything ordinary that
happens to be going on around you... commenting about something thats
happening on the TV or whatever. This trance of romance is as fragile as a soap
bubble remember... one stupid move and **POP** its gone. Therefore, ignore
all unimportant background factors (i.e., anything short of the house
catching fire) once you have moved into the physical phase of the
seduction! Nothing must exist but the two of you caught up in your frenzy of
passion. Its a fantasy world that youve entered where your bodies are beginning
to take charge now. Your brains are no longer used for thinking and
communicating... they are used only to experience the processing of sensation,
for feeling. This is the state that you must draw her into but please understand
that it remains an easily ruined state until youve both shed your clothes!
Unlike men, sex is a three step process for her... she
has to think about it first (teasing, flirting), feel it second
(emotional connection) and then finally... get physical
and Do It!
Your words, few as they are, should be whispered seductively, never
spoken aloud in a normal tone of voice! Raising your voice to a normal everyday
volume, laughing loudly or turning the subject away from the emotional to
something more mundane... are all acts of trance sabotage. Trance sabotage is
self-sabotage on open public display. Dont do it!... Refuse to cave into your
anxieties at this crucial moment!
Ive found that women will offer the least amount of resistance to kissing or
petting if it occurs as a natural escalation of frequent touching thats become
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and a flickering tongue suddenly zooming in out of the clear blue without any setup, is all Im saying. Intimacy has build gradually and logically step-by-step to
assure her acceptance. If you havent been touching her very much up until this
time then you are failing to set her up for sex. The trance of romance is
supported by escalation whereas it is shattered by ill-timed and awkward
gropes at physicality.
In the end, how well any of your charms work will depend on how
profoundly she's allowed herself to be drawn into the sensual moment that you've
tried to create around her. You need to maintain a steadily escalating force that
moves her along through kissing, petting, fingering, stripping, fucking... and feed
off her reactions to gauge how hastily to proceed. She has to feel comfortable
and secure enough to let sexual submission to occur. This might be where you
have to remind yourself about that notion of selfishness I talked about earlier.
Keep pushing for what YOU want confident that she wants it too! You know
that she has to put up her little "oh my..." charade to give herself the "I'm no slut"
excuse the next morning, right? Right.
Understand that you have to model increasing passion for her and let her
pick up on your lead. Employ little tricks like the Pull Away move. For instance:
while kissing... pause, pull back and look at her with half-closed bedroom eyes for
a few seconds. Wait until she says something like what? and then just lean
back in and continue making out with her. Remember how eye contact defines
her romantic universe?... Apply the lust eyes here as described on page 104.
This wordlessly exposes your growing passion for her... spinning your web of
enchantment and silently (silently!) inviting her to join you. This is how its done...
softly, magically with a respect for the fact that women need time to light up and
move across the threshold into a sexy mood.
There are no hard and absolute rules here some women will prefer to be
taken and require a rougher, bolder approach. No luring them in, they want to
be dragged in and made to submit to the alpha male! The type of approach to
use on any particular woman will have to be a complete judgement call on your
part, what can I tell you? If you get the sense that she digs a certain style
(mellow & sweet; upbeat, dancing & sweating; a verbal psycho-drama, etc.) then
give that route a shot and see where it takes you. Adjust accordingly. You need
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Blend whatever personality style you mayve already established (tough

guy, playful, sensitive man, etc.) into her fantasy. Be confident about everything
you do and follow through with authority. If you need something to be
genuinely confident about, try this: your actions to this point have already placed
you in rarefied air in terms of how different you are than other guys shes dated.
Being different scores points and rings bells! Male confidence can be
breathtakingly seductive in its own right its unspoken power a force pulling her
down deeper into your gravity well of passion. She wants to surrender your job
is to allow it to happen, to give permission.

First Sex
Lets assume that youve got her all hot and bothered now and its time to
go for the gold. Move your lips to her ears and down across her throat, lingering
at the nape of her neck. Let your hands slowly wander across her chest as you
kiss her. It may take you a few tries to actually get past this point but DO keep
gently but persistently bearing forward. Use good judgement and do not
automatically assume a little reluctance to be total rejection... remember its just
female posturing pre-sex play she uses to tease the male to ready him for
copulation (Nature at work in all her brilliance!). Use whatever mental tricks you
must to stay motivated your emotional drive is your power. Imagine her
resistance as futile if you must! (lame Star Trek reference lost on anyone with a
life, sorry...).
Whatever you do, dont stop pushing and begin pouting!
"Do you really like me? Are you just trying to get into my pants?" These
are some of the meek protests she may float. The last of her inhibitions are
about to come down. Tell her how your life changed since you met her, how its
all so special in some strange way... A quick kiss, perhaps a small bite, then
move on. Think of her nervous system as an instrument. Play a tune! Do not
speak any more than you must in order to deepen her enchantment.
When you sense the time is right, begin to remove her clothes. Dont ask
her permission! Never ask her permission for any of this! Just do it and make
her either stop you or surrender. If she wants to stop, then pause for a moment
and back up a little... then resume your efforts. More gradually this time. If she
gives you a firm and final no then youll have to pull up or risk a date rape
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judgement calls. My thinking here is that ultimately the woman acts as final
arbiter of sex, but that doesnt mean she wants me to stop trying! Force her
either to up the ante and get stern with you or turn playful and begin her
surrendering behavior. One signal here is not enough to act on, she needs to
send you a cluster. Watch her body language for signs shes slipping
subconsciously into reproductive mode. They wont lie!
Handle the entire courtship dance with good humor. Tickle her, get her
laughing, pull some kind of change-up to break the tension. Just dont be a baby
and give up at the first whiff of resistance! Theres always going to be some
resistance. Learn to ride it out and give it your best shot.

Tasting Every Square Inch

By the time we made it to the bedroom, half her clothes were
already gone. A trail of shoes and jeans and frilly things tailed away
behind us like sinful little crumbs. I could see her eyes gleaming as I
joined in her nakedness. I began running my hands across her legs
and flanks, marveling at her smoothness exulting in her wonderful
curves. I teased a nipple and made her giggle, rolling my hands
across her breasts and over her shoulders, tracing the moist curves
of he neck. I needed to drink her in with a sudden hunger that was
scarcely containable.
Sliding up her gasping body, my eyes drew level with hers and
regarded her in the threadbare glow leaking in from the adjacent
living room. ...I cant stand it any more. I need to taste every
square inch of you... Kissing her neck and then further down the
length of her torso, it was as if I were starved to the point of delirium.
She responded with a strangled moan that all but guaranteed her
immanent surrender.
Whew!... okay everybody, hands up on your desks where I can see them.
What Im trying to illustrate is a key element to any first sexual encounter the
importance of showing her you are a hot talker in bed. Your goal is to seem
sexy to her, but not in a way that shes likely to regard as pervy... and talking is
the best way to do it! Women are almost universally turned-on by men who talk
them up while fucking. Outlandish sex tricks are not necessarily sexy to her, but
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Women are on the lookout for weird behavior in guys when they first
become involved with them sexually. There are probably as many different
flavors of this paranoia as there are women, but that doesnt make it any less real
or any less of a problem for us. You might think you have a really cool idea about
a pair of handcuffs and a bottle of baby oil, but you need to save that for the 3rd or
later sexual episode with her. For now keep all the crazy stuff under your hat.
First sex with her should be somewhat vanilla in a physical sense but made
exciting for her in a very different way.
Main Feature of First Sex: The single overriding theme
guiding your first sexual experience with her is to be
verbally expressive... describe what you want to do,
tell her how great she looks that shes exotic in some
unusual way. Then coax her to scream loud and hard
when she comes!
Being emotionally open can be summed up like this: you must seem way
into her body style, be enthusiastic, and make noise! Admire her curves and tell
her she has an extremely fem body, or rave that she has gorgeous skin. While
shes on her back, grab her legs by both ankles and spread them apart with a
swift and certain movement asserting your dominant role. It will trigger her
instinct to submit. Because so few guys are confident enough to act in this way,
you will come across as different and unique. Anything that separates you from
the sheep-pack turns you into a fascinating animal requiring further study. This
also sets you up for continuing sexual play, rather than a one night deal.
Theres a very important turn of words in that fictional clip if you missed it,
...I need to taste every square inch of you... Making a near-loss-of-control
admission of this magnitude can leave a woman breathless! Far more than any
world-class collection of twisty tongue techniques ever could.
More technique? Simple, just do a play-by-play by describing the things
youre about to do to her as youre doing them: Lie back with your arms up
over your head like that... yeah, thats it, there you go... so long and lean,
just gorgeous. Im going to just slide the tip of my cock into you... I want
you to feel every inch of it as it digs into your pussy... This sort of
willingness to connect makes sex with you thrilling for her!

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Setting Up Your Next Shot

Remember what I said before about great pool players focusing not only on
the shot theyre attempting to make but on their next shot as well? They worry
about placing the cue ball into a position to make their next shot even as theyre
thinking about sinking the current one. In order to have truly great sex with a
woman, you have to take the time and effort to set up your next sexual adventure
with her while youre still hoppin and boppin around naked. Heres how:
1) After youve both had orgasms, the sex isnt over... Shell want to
cuddle and chat! Accommodate this urge and make the experience complete
enough for her to want to do it again with you as soon as possible. Womens
brains are wired differently than our own sex is a sedative for men whereas it
seems to buzz women up... and that means they want to talk. This is where she
wants to really see who you are on the other side of the sexual barrier thats just
been crossed. Its an important moment, and honoring it runs up your score big
time. Demonstrate how easily you can slide into this mode without her having to
prod your reluctant ass along.
2) Stay lively, upbeat and awake! She gives the signal when its alright to
fall asleep. Let her quiet down and go first, then you follow. Rolling over, farting
and mumbling goodnight after youve done the nasty is for old married folks.
You havent reached that 8th level of Dantes hell yet, so why rush it?
3) Now is the time to reveal something deeply personal about
yourself. Share one of your big dreams with her! Women are conveyed to a
different spiritual plane once theyve experienced a profoundly liberating orgasm,
they are ripe now for all the connecting you want to do. Reveal just one dream
for now, dont go overboard and vomit up the entire sad story of your life yet.
Shes in the mood to dig into you now, exhilarated to understand more of what
youre about. This is when women really become interested in men... after
theyve fucked them! Sync up with this longing and youll have taken a major
step towards making her want to jump your bones again the moment she sets
eyes on you!

First Sex Dos-and-Donts

Having sex with a new lover for the first time can be one of the most
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People need to feel comfortable before they can completely let go and enjoy
themselves in a way that we all fantasize great sex can allow us to do. This
means that women will cut you more slack on that first lay than you might expect.
Remember that shes probably more paranoid about your seeing her naked for
the first time than she is busy judging your hairy ass! With this in mind, heres a
few important points for you to keep in mind:

Dont...
1) ...Last too long, Believe it or not, because of all the anticipation and
build-up of sexual tension, she actually expects you to lose control. This means
that all you PE (premature ejaculator) guys get a free pass for the first 1-3
sessions before she may begin to suspect you have a problem. In fact, if you last
too long she might think youre one of these jokers who cant get his heat up for
any chick who doesnt resemble an inflate-a-tits porno star. Tell her: Im sorry
baby, youre just so fuckin hot, I couldnt last.... Dont be ashamed to admit this
its music to her ears because it further demonstrates your emotional openness
and availability! As long as you make sure that she gets her nut during the deal
theres no harm, no foul.

Dont...
2) ...Act like Steven Feelburg directing your latest porno movie...
even though youve inspected so many of them by now you probably could. So
forget about the on-cue position changes or the contrived hot talk that mimics
the ridiculous shit that passes for dialog in your favorite adult epic. Everything
should be spontaneous once passions take control, and maybe even a little
awkward at times as well. You want to pour on the hot talk of course, but use
your own genuine words to thrill her like we talked about earlier, not this: baby I
need to plunge my engorged baloney deep into your quivering hot roast beef!...
kind of stuff. Sheesh... makes me want to run over to the deli and grab a
sandwich. Think we can we work some provalone in there somehow too?

Dont...
3) ...Beg her to participate in any really bizarre sexual shit right
away. I know youre dying to have her go straight up your ass with that 7 inch
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your non-existent wife to use on her non-existent lesbian girlfriend during the nonexistent threesome you were all planning on having this weekend, but... just keep
a lowdown on that stuff for now, okay? Demonstrating the enormous breadth of
your capacity for the erotically outlandish is not the kind of impression you want to
make on your first tumble with a newbie. It takes time to lead a woman down this
scary path of kink. You need to draw her into your weird-world gradually and with
care (well talk about this later). Otherwise, you might just as well set up the old
8mm movie projector and start showing off your Helen and the Horse movies.

But, Do...
1) ...Act amazed at how she looks with her clothes off ! Women
are super-paranoid about letting any guy see them naked for the first time, unless
theyre club dancers or strippers who routinely get tons of slobbering feedback
about how smokin hot they are. Your wolf-like enthusiasm now becomes
essential in getting her to abandon the last of her inhibitions. Showing off your
barely-contained eagerness will do the trick and when she finally comes back to
earth whos the triumphant mook thats gonna be smiling back at her?

Do...
2) ...Tell her that something about her looks very Exotic... The
key word here is exotic remember this if you blank on everything else... Exotic.
The actual point of focus could be just about anything... the trace of her jawline,
the curve of her neck, the cut in the muscles of her leg, the feminine delicacy of
her shoulder blades, even the way her pussy opens like a flower when she
spreads her legs. I once told a girl that those two dimples next to the base of her
spine (which all women have) were exotic, and she offered up her back door
before long! Inflection and tonality convey more than actual words here, so
whenever you speak of her exotic nature, use a sort of breathless, quivering
voice to deepen the trance. Women go nuts for this! Use your head and be
creative... this is where the bullshit ends and the whole thing starts to get fun!

Do...
3) ...Pull a fag slip A what?... a fag slip? Okay, have you gone nancy
boy on me now or what Mike? No, Im actually very serious. Every now and then
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for about 1 to 3 minutes and completely lose contact with your macho veneer.
Groan, talk, submit verbally in your best whimpering voice and offer to serve her
without condition. Offer to become her boy toy tell her how insane she makes
you. This is emotional openness taken to an extreme. A lot of guys are too
insecure to drop their manly act and drink in the complete sensation of sex
without some shame. Dont you be one of them! You dont want to come across
in this semi-sissy way during the entire time of course, just make a temporary slip
up... see? Thats all she needs to seem as if shes been suffused with goddesslike power. From this intoxicating place she can hardly know that you are drawing
your lasso of seduction closed tightly!

Second Sex
Shes feeling very vulnerable now that shes given it up to you. Her
insecurities are at full power along with her paranoia about your intentions. Shell
be watching for you to do something that suggests youre losing even the
slightest bit of interest now that shes put out. At this point many women, fearing
rejection, will try to beat you to the punch by shutting down on you first. They do
this by going cold on you. Thats why you have to take pains to show her that
you are still enthralled. Keep your hands on her as much as possible, maintain
the playful teasing and innuendo at a high level. After a certain amount of time
shell relax into things. This is where blossoming trust creates molten sex!
Some of you guys may believe that women are less interested in sex than
men, and therefore are basically a tough sell. I say look at the biology: there
are 4,000 nerve sensory points stationed in the penis and surrounding scrotum
sac, about 70% of them located in the front tip, the so-called dorsal nerve. You
know what a party this array of nerves can be when stimulated both from the top
and bottom... by which I mean both physically and mentally. Now consider this:
the clitoris and surrounding region of the vaginal mound contains somewhere
around 8,000 nerve buds! Twice as many. Most of these are focused in the clit
but a big tangle creates the G-spot and a similar pleasurable response point in
the anus that (most) men dont share. There is simply no way that an animal with
this kind of enhanced pleasure response doesnt crave frequent sexual
stimulation... she just needs to find the right guy to psychologically let go with!
And that guy can be you.
With this in mind, the next step on our second sexual adventure is all about
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the more sophisticated woman will be cautious about flipping head over heels for
some dude after a single roll in the sack. Each time you have sex therefore, you
should be thinking about pushing the envelope just a little farther, but in a way
that matches up with her own unique tastes. Figure out what she seems to enjoy
the most and then concentrate on those particular details, whether its oral or
fantasy or spontaneity or the building up of anticipation via the use of some sort
of ritual or whatever. These little signals you get from her along the way
comprise the raw material that you can use to make yourself stand out in her
mind as that special guy who gets it. Who knows how to handle a woman
sexually. This is how you move beyond just being another one of her bang
buddies to becoming someone she will one day care about deeply.
Main Feature of Second Sex: Shes been on your
mind quite a bit... and its been making you crazy!
This pent up passion is what drives you to just want to
drink her up from stem to stern. It stuns her to see you
completely sell out for her like this, its an enormous
compliment that clicks a switch in her head... sending
her over the edge and discontinuing her normal reserve
in favor of a new-found slutiness that she suddenly links
to... you.
Wow... quite an assertion to make considering the avalanche of contrary
play it cool show no emotion -type information out there. Well I beg to differ,
theres a time to play it cool and a time to give it up, and Ive seen this over the
edge deal operate with such amazing effectiveness time and again, thats why
Im laying it out for you without apology. Every author on this subject writes from
his own unique experience base, and this one is mine. Heres how it works: once
youve had sex with a woman Ive found that what really sets her off is a
demonstration of your growing healthy obsession with her (healthy, as opposed
to unhealthy which is the fawning (or stalking) variety that steals every last
ounce of your male dignity away and drops you down the low status well).
Healthy obsession on the other hand, occurs when it seems obvious to her
that you are attempting to manage emotions within yourself that are exciting,
unusual and difficult for most men to control. Still, you just cant help feeling
captivated by her and as you struggle to maintain your HSM composure, little
peeks of your growing infatuation are leaking out here and there. Women
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command over men in this one arena of life! The trick to doing this correctly while
preserving your male dignity in the process lies in the notion of control, the
illusion that you are struggling to retain control but having a rough time of it. This
is what makes your obsession a healthy rather than a desperate one. Youre
falling for her!
As an example of technique, when you see your girl again for the first time
since you made love, she may attempt to downplay your new closeness and
drum up some small talk or whatever. Youll have none of it. You will knock her
socks off by ignoring all that, take her into your arms, kiss her passionately and
say these exact words: I absolutely have not been able to stop thinking
about you. Thats it. This proclaims the profound effect that shes been having
on your mental state.
Again, its okay to admit to feeling this way now after the reality of the two
of you actually having had real sex. It is NOT okay to admit feeling this way
before you have actually made it with her! To do so is to concede a childish,
immature infatuation that speaks to a limited experience with women, not to
mention a general scarcity of them in your life.
But things have changed now barriers have been crossed and you have
the green light to be more openly romantic. Women dont want to know that
theyve hooked up with some crumb bum that no other women want they want a
guy who seems like he has his pick of the female population. You have to walk a
fine line here by demonstrating that she has gotten to you somewhat. But please
dont do this in an open slobbering manner that is the hallmark of the low status
male! Barely contained passion has you dancing awful closely to the edge of
going off the deep end and making a fool of yourself. A cool, HSM sort of dude
showing the first signs of cracking under her spell? Its the sort of thing that chick
dreams are made of my friend.

The Optional Rose

Youll recall that I warned you against sending a woman flowers or any
other sort of Lance romance -type gift at any point during the courtship process.
In the old days of course, gifting was a classic signal of male romantic intentions,
and while some women may still be old fashioned enough to accept this quaint
gesture in the spirit in which it is offered, more than likely the modern woman will
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too soon, it appears to be coming from a position of weakness rather than one of
power.
However, after youve had sex with her for the first time, this gesture
suddenly regains its value. Thats because Power has shifted in the
relationship from the woman to the man once sex has occurred between
them! She has given it up to you and made herself vulnerable to being hurt (a
power she formerly possessed by virtue of her being able to reject you at any
time up until that moment of coitus). Now you have the power to reject her since
you have possibly gotten everything that you wanted (quick, one-time sex and
out) and are ready to move on. This uncertainty creates all sorts of insecurity in
her making the offering of a simple romantic gesture like flowers a welcome
relief to her. What a considerate guy!
The flowers themselves should be white roses or a small arrangement of
wildflowers. Dont do red roses red is either for deep I love you or forgive
me for I have sinned attempts to buy back into her good graces. You are not in
position B and youd better not be in position A... its too soon to be going off the
deep end yet! White roses... and only a short arrangement of 3 or 4, not a dozen.
This idea is entirely optional if it just isnt your nature to do this sort of thing or
if it flies against the kind of theme that youve been cultivating for yourself, then
skip it. I just want to give you all available options so you can design a seduction
to suit your own temperament.
Timing also needs to be considered. The best way to present flowers is to
have them delivered at the office or to where she works if at all possible. She will
be embarrassed of course, but secretly loving the fact that all the other single
girls in the office (not to mention the miserable married hags) will be dripping with
jealously and hatred. There are plenty of points to be scored all across the board
here. The attached card should say ...cant stop thinking about you... M
Simple and to the point, and even a bit mysterious to boot.
Seduction in action, baby!

Passion Models the Response You Desire

The big idea seeming to underlie your actions now is this shift towards a
barely contained infatuation on your part that you are struggling, and maybe
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and lots of kissing right from the very moment you step into her presence. She
has to feel that youve been caught up in her charm and being driven crazy by it!
Of course youre probably thinking but this violates the prime directive of
always playing it cool... shell think Im an ass-sucking desperado... Not
necessarily. The trick is to strike an elegant balance between restraint and
explosive emotion you dont want to come across as a slobbering fool, and yet
seeming disinterested can be just as bad. Playing the cool aloof guy has its
usefulness at various points along the course of the seduction game, but not here
I believe. Youve already sampled the goods once and are craving more, right?
This is different than craving something you havent had yet. The first is seen as
longing and desire, whereas the second is based on simply wanting more of what
youve already taken possession of. Its a big difference in her eyes.
So play it as cool as you like, but make sure your desire is somehow made
obvious to her. If you did the flowers thing or maybe texted her with a few hot or
suggestive-teasing-playful messages during the interval that you were apart, then
youve already played your hand nicely in this regard. Build on this energy dont
pull back and let the flames go out (a big mistake Ive made more than a few
times). There is still more sealing of the deal left to go.
This second sexual encounter you have with a woman has to be all about
opening her up in a figurative sense of moving her to a place of comfort where
she will feel a freedom to release both physically and spiritually in your
presence. Your job is to use your imagination and whatever you know about her
in particular (from all your investigating) to fashion an experience that will just
blow her away. Use whatever tricks and props you think you must in order to
work your magic here, the only goal is to make this next episode of sex
something out of the ordinary for her. You dont need to be a genius or a porno
athlete to do this. A shared bath with a bottle of wine or other choice intoxicant, a
new CD release from her favorite band playing in the background, a tiny pink
camisole you bought for her to strut around in (you saw it at the mall, you couldnt
help but see her in it... then you actually went into the girlie store and bought it
despite all your embarrassment!) See? Youre out of control, shes making you
nuts... Think how this must be impacting her mind!
One way that Ive used myself to ramp-up the sexual electricity is simply to
sit with my girl naked on the bed face-to-face in a cross-legged, lotus-style yoga
posture. I watch how her eyes light up with perplexed eagerness as I guide and

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maneuver her into this position. Dont tell her what you have in mind just yet, let
her guess. Now move in closer, but only allow the tips of you fingers, and then
perhaps just the tips of your noses, to actually touch. Try to match your breathing
with hers and feel the tensions building to a break point. Explain to her that the
longer you can both hold out like this the better the sex will be! Simple, easy, fun
for her and not too weird. Little erotic mischiefs like this are thrilling to women
because they demonstrate an active imagination which is free to roam around.
Early on you should try to stick with simple little candy-ass ideas such as this
which are fun but unthreatening.

Indrani Asana and Other

Magical Mystery Tours
As a lover, you arent always graded on hard you can slam her or even how
long you can hold out, but ultimately, on your enthusiasm and tolerance for
foreplay. Creative foreplay is the Gold Standard when it comes to sexually
enchanting women. Ive seen how easy it can be to send them spinning off into
orgasmic heaven with a few simple moves that go just a little bit beyond the stale
old humping-and-pumping routine. They always tell me that no other guy had so
many crazy ideas when it came to pre-sex play. Whoopie... as if this is so hard
to do. Becoming a sex god is just a matter of applying a few easily learned
tricks that you can dig out of any of the million-and-one sex technique books
crushing the bookshelves out there. If you read even one of these youll move
into an exclusive club that includes maybe 5% of the population, thats how few
ever bother. Now youre an expert! How easy was that?
Look, people dont usually bother learning about sexual skills-type stuff
until they are deep into an old, half-dead relationship where their sex has curdled
away into utter boredom. That you would study and apply any sort of sensual
creativity in your relationship so soon will be stunning to most women, and mark
you as a man to be reckoned with. One certainly requiring further study!
For a few bucks, anyone can get tons of excellent ideas to spike up his
lovemaking skills from any of these instructional Kama Sutra videos for instance.
Where do you think I got that naked nose-to-nose thing that I just described for
you a minute ago? Again, the standard sad performance of most men makes
your job relatively easy here. You only need to surprise her with one or two cool
techniques youve scored from some book or video and youre on the board. It
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seem like a Porno King your every action is amplified by the fact that you are in
rarified air simply by doing any of this stuff at all. Pull enough sexual
seductions of this sort in your own little corner of the world, and let the word get
around, and youll soon find the women lying down before you like reeds in a
hurricane. Gossip travels like lightning never forget.
As an example of how rudimentary this stuff can be, heres a cool Tantricstyle move that you can work into any lay without having to get all spiritual and
guru-like on her (although maybe she would enjoy having such an element
included too? A little burning incense in the background? Whats her TQ
anyway?) The move is called Indra Asana. Indra was the king of the Hindu
gods, Ruler of Thunder and Rain. This particular move was supposedly the
favorite of his insatiable goddess wife, Indrani.
Indra Asana is a rather simple variation of the vanilla missionary position.
Like so: once youve got her on her back, all you have to do is guide her legs up
into a knees-in-the-chest posture. Take her feet (the stiletto heels will have to
come off Im afraid,) and gently tuck them under each of your armpits. Or you
can just rest them on your chest. When a woman is rolled up into a little ball like
this while youre penetrating her, her vaginal muscles are forced to tighten up
which results in a blowout orgasm, for both of you. (So be careful if youre trying
to control yourself.) It also opens up her clit and breasts to your skilled
handiwork. Do this move silently without a lot of play-by-play yak that will break
the trance and diminish the experience for her. (Hot talk is still okay, but dont
ever get into actually describing what youre doing like youre giving a classroom
demonstration. This puts you square into the never-gets-laid, nerd zone!)
There are dozens of similar tricks to choose from. If you want to study
Kama Sutra to a greater extent and add variations such as this to your playbook,
some of the DVDs they sell at adult toy places like BetterSex.com or
ToolsforWellness.com are a pretty good place to start looking. Some of this
stuff requires elaborate props like a suspended swing, but most of it is just
interesting and fun positions that a lot of people simply never consider trying.
You, however, are different. And different is intriguing and exciting to women! I
just toss in a kooky new technique here and there when I happen to think about it,
but you may wish to make this entire thing a part of your very own theme that
defines what youre all about. You design your own seductions the way you want
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Third Sex, The Infinite and Beyond

Go. Real. Slow.
You like it more and more,
Take it as it comes,
Specialize in having fun...
Take it Easy Baby
The Doors, 1966
Alright, by now the two of you are fucking your relationship with her is a
done deal in terms of having crossed the psychological barrier that separates
friends from lovers. Beginning with the third sexual episode and those that follow,
you will begin to introduce the first hints that this ride will be different than any
other. Think extraordinary and experimental. Of course, I caution you not to
force her into anything profoundly weird right away. A girl needs to be drawn
down into the tar pits of your dirty little mind gradually. Take note of where her
freak-out point appears to be, and be careful not to go clumsily charging over it.
You want to maneuver her a bit closer every time as you build that all-important
trust and quell her apprehensions.
Main Feature of Third Sex and Beyond: Establish
the Basis of Her Addiction to You! This is where you
get to turn up the volume based on what youve learned
from your study of her sexual likes and dislikes through
your conversations and prior lovemaking and use
them to create an addictive/sexual bond with her.
Ive basically broken down this process into three steps:
1) Determine Her Most Likely Sexual Weakness
2) Become Her Drug Based on that Weakness
3) Get Her Addicted to You
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1) Find Her Most Likely Sexual Weakness

The first step is to figure out what she really digs about sex, what sort of
cheap tricks send her into orgasmic orbit. How? Experiment! Maybe she likes to
be dirty-talked and verbally coaxed towards orgasm? Perhaps she wants you to
control her in some way? Or maybe she wants to control a man? Try all
various different things with her, spank her ass, tickle her, take pictures, do it
outside in the park, try some watersports in the shower, swap positions
frequently, etc. Use your porno powers here. Some of this stuff will probably turn
her off but theres always something that really sends a woman red-lining off the
meter, and your job is to find out what that is and then play it like a fiddle.
If she refuses to go much beyond plain vanilla missionary-style sex then
you may have run across a chick with low sex drive, or one who simply doesnt
place sex high up on her list of priorities. Rather than being pissed about it, count
your blessings! Its crucial to uncover this kind of important knowledge
about woman as soon as possible so you can decide if you want to stick
around with her for the long haul. Trying to turn someone this far gone into
your more open-minded, erotically-experimental direction can be an impossible
chore. Some girls just suck at sex, theyre boring and theres not much you can
do about it. Its also tough to convert a moralistic sexual prude and I would
advise against that impossible mission as well. You need a clear picture of what
youre dealing with so you can make any future big decisions like marriage with
your eyes wide open, and pushing to find her sexual limits and boundaries is an
important element of that process.

2) Become Her Drug Based on that Weakness

Once youve identified something that really sets her off sexually, you need
to bone up on that particular technique or fantasy role and become really good
at delivering it. If she gets off on receiving oral sex for instance, your job is then
to become the best tongue-meister shes ever encountered! Get some
instructional tapes on cunnilingus (ex-porno star Nina Hartley makes an excellent
series of sex instructional dvds on every fetish out there) and school up. If you
cant stand doing the sewer work yourself then buy some fuzzy buzzy gadget
from a sex catalog like Adam & Eve (adameve.com) and surprise her with it.
Zero in on her sexual weakness (what she seems to love most) with the idea of
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Regular sexual activity will eventually smoke out where her high water
marks are located, both orgasmically and emotionally. Keep notes, silly as this
may sound, and after you fill a few pages go back and review them. Sort out
those things that she seems to like the most by popularity. This all may seem
very tedious when youre reading through it now, but such exercises can really
help clarify your thinking. If all this investigating seems endless you can take
heart that its almost complete by now. Once you think you understand what her
sexual weak points are and have decided how to capitalize on them, you are
nearing the finish line. More importantly, youre also in the drivers seat.

3) Get Her Addicted to You

This idea of getting a woman sexually addicted to you may sound crazy,
but its really not too difficult nor does it require any super-advanced sex skills to
pull off. Its mostly about focus and direction and purpose as youll see. One
warning: be careful never to bust the illusion by announcing what youre doing.
Dont say, Im going to make you addicted to me. For that matter never reveal
that youre seducing her either. Once people begin to think theyre being
manipulated they will throw up massive resistance. Like a stage magician, a trick
is only cool as long as you never reveal how it works. If you show the audience
how the string runs up your sleeve they think oh, that trick was easy, then
suddenly it sucks. A seduction can be poisoned in the same way.
Look, ninety-nine percent of people pretty much just wing it when it comes
to sex they know a few basic moves and make the rest up as they go along.
The fact that you have 1) studied your prey and determined what really turns her
on, and 2) are making an effort to satisfy her in that specific way makes you out
as a totally different breed of cat. Develop an awareness of what trips her trigger,
and then calibrate your actions to hit that trigger every time you have sex with
her. Before long youll be viewed as some kind of sex champion and really,
youll hardly have done anything all that different than most guys youll just be
doing them with more purpose and direction.
A blend of physical and psychological tactics works wonders. Tell her all
the sexy stuff she wants to hear... but never really expected to: tell an older
woman that shes tight like a young chick. Tell a skinny girl her long arms make
her look incredibly sexy like a statue in an art museum. Arms? How often do
someones arms get noticed or complimented on? Or maybe that you love the
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not very sexy because they dont have enough curves. Not to you though...
youre enthralled by it... tell a young girl she has a sultriness about her that
belies her real age, making her seem more like an experienced, middle-aged
seductress.
Notice the pattern here? No one wants to be themselves! They all want
to be younger or older or shaped differently or whatever... anything but plain old
them! Think up new comments every time so it appears like you are unraveling
her bit-by-bit like a delicate flower each layer more thrilling to you than the last.
And you are the first guy to actually see her as this fantasy creature that shed
dared never dream of being seen as. But you can peer through the ordinary and
see the extraordinary in her! Egos being what they are, few women can resist
this sort of lavish attention spilling forth from their new lovers... its intoxicating!
Now... you are becoming her drug!

The Secret to Self-Control

One quick word of advice when it comes to managing your own sexual
pleasure and performance... I would recommend that you avoid attempting to
improve your ejaculatory control by using methods that seek to diminish the
pleasurable sensations in your mind-body, such as by trying to distract yourself
with a non-sexual mental task like sorting out baseball cards or something. Dont
ever break your own Pleasure Trance! What the hells the point of going
through all this seduction stuff only to mess up your buzz when you finally get
there? And besides, theres no need to ruin things in this fashion.
There are plenty of alternative methods like the squeeze technique that
you can use to manage the timing of an orgasm. Whenever you feel that youre
getting too close and you want to hold out longer, just squeeze and hold the tip of
your penis for about 5 seconds, release and then continue stroking away. Youll
feel a sharp semi-orgasmic jolt a few moments later that will discharge some of
the accumulated nerve energy without causing an ejaculation sort of like
sparking off the charge in a capacitor a little bit at a time instead of all at once in
one big pulse.
Dont want to stop and pull out? You can also accomplish the same thing
hands off by learning how to push closed the valve in your body that controls
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plumbing from the base of the penis on outward, and when you urinate theres a
valve at the terminus of the channel which carries your semen. This valve closes
shut while urinating in order to prevent any piss from backing up this passage and
leaking into the prostate. Well, you can train yourself to use this valve a bit
differently than nature intended. At the moment when you feel that you are about
to come, you have to push as if youre trying to start a flow of urine, and a reflex
will close this valve shut as it normally does. Dont try to pull or suck your jizz
back in... push and hold. If you push hard enough you can actually experience a
screaming orgasmic jolt blast through your body without ejaculating more than a
few drops of semen... a drygasm! Its a real head trip that has to be experienced
to be understood.
Admittedly this takes some practice and a load a willpower brought to bear
at the critical moment in order to execute properly, but now at least you have a
good excuse to practice something different when youre engaged in your favorite
pastime ;-)
Regardless of whatever method you use, dont do any of this shit more
than two or three times per session otherwise you might not be able to
ejaculate at all after a while, since your nervous system will become confused
and shut everything down for a few hours. Besides, women are not impressed by
these marathon men that can last forever (retarded ejaculation) because they
get worn out physically and just want it over. Of course, you could always
exhaust yourself deliberately... stop everything, get dressed, take her out for
something to eat, then hop back in bed and finish the job a few hours later. Its
what I call a Split Session. How hot would that be for her, eh? Always thinking,
always doing stuff so much different than any other guy shes ever been with.
Thats why youre The Man whos making her head spin!

Helga the Horrible

Heres a funny but true story that illustrates just how things can take on a
life of their own sometimes. This shows why its important to keep on pull-tabbing
and working multiple threads with women, because you just never know where
theyll lead. While most of your efforts will end up under the bell curve in terms of
acceptance or rejection (mild rejections, uninspiring hookups) some will go off
into extremes on either end. By that I mean there might be a few nasty rejections
that really rock your confidence, but for every crash-and-burn there will be an
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Case in point: Im at the gym working out and theres this woman who
shows up like clockwork every Friday just about the time Im finishing my cardio
work. She wears this Euro-bob hairdo that seems kind of retro and I imagine that
she might have a heavy foreign accent, so I take to calling her Helga in my
mind. I have no idea what her real name is and dont really care, I just enjoy
watching her do floor warm-ups in front of me. Shes a workout freak, no chatting
around with anyone during her precise routine, very focused. This health club is
not a happy hunting ground for me actually, everyone seems caught up in their
workouts and theres very little socializing going on. Yeah I swap a few words
here and there, but I sense the disinterest so I dont really pull-tab all that much
because there are easier situations to work in. And Im there for the same reason
anyway. (Note: try joining your clubs yoga or pilates class if you want to put
yourself into an environment where there are more women than men, youre all in
close proximity and things are semi-relaxed. Both are awesome workouts too,
great for us Type-As)
Anyway, Helga is what some guys might call a butterface... everything
about her is gorgeous, but her face. Get it? Shes got a lean hard body, great
legs (and shes a little bit bow-legged too, which I dig ;-) and just seems nice and
tight all around. Wears a bit of silver jewelry and yada, yada... like that. But her
face is a bit busted, not horrible or anything, just kind of showing her age, big
nose, etc. Im certainly no prize either and hardly one to make these sorts of
cruel judgements of anyone else, but Im just trying to paint the picture for you.
Well, one Friday dont you know Helga grabs a machine next to mine and
I finally do get to bat around a few words with her. Nothing much, just a few quick
pleasantries and back to the grind. She seemed pretty cool, upbeat. And... no
accent! (A perfect example why trying to mind read something about a chick
before actually discovering what the deal is with her, and then acting on that
fantasy information is a sure way to shoot yourself in the foot and make a
complete fool of yourself. Dont dream, investigate!). I also got her real name,
but dont want to reveal it here because you never know where this book will end
up and Im probably in enough trouble already, so Ill just continue to call her
Helga for now.
A few weeks later (weeks ), me and Helga ended up side-by-side on a pair
of elliptical machines and got to talking some more. I dont know, there was a
day when picking up a chick seemed like an impossible dream to me, but now
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because I guess I mustve connected with her. Sometimes you can break them
down without even trying... hell, maybe thats the secret! Anyway, after the
workout, she mentioned that there was some kind of house party being thrown by
some friends of hers and wondered if I wanted to go. I said sure. Always say
yes to any social offer that you get. Try to almost make it a reflex. Even if you
dont really dig the girl in question, she might have a friend you could hook up
with. You must Network in order to be successful at meeting women, its a
rich source of new prospects!
Yes opens the door to providence and puts you in Lady Lucks
bulls-eye, whereas No is sure to keep things exactly the same in
your life as they are right now.
So we traded numbers and I hooked up with her a few days later, and soon
I found myself escorting mein little butterface to ze party!
Hey Ill tell you, this chick knew how to dress in a stunning way and she
was not shy about showing off the awesome results of her zealous workouts. Im
telling you she looked smokin hot! It was fun to show up with her even though I
didnt know anyone there enough to impress. I was my usual gracious self
though, and just made sure to do one thing: make her look good in front of her
friends. (See my earlier book, Without Embarrassment). Women worry about
being made to look like fools by the men they choose to hang around with, so I
tried to make myself seem like a catch for her by mesmerizing her friends and
co-workers with my baffling brilliance. (You know, the usual stuff for me ;-). I
didnt have enough time to investigate this girl for any custom triggers, but this
one is pretty universal and usually puts points on the board for you.
Long story short, by the end of the night we were both a little drunk and
making out in her car (she drove, which I dont recommend because the more
dominant party usually drives, but, well... maybe this was the proper division of
labor as youll soon see...). Back at her place we pick it up again and Ive got her
tight little bod all over me and I was soon tearing off ze clothes! Sometimes the
stars just line up for you, but youve got to stay on the playing field and not
disqualify yourself. For every deal that goes down like pulling teeth another will
just drop into your lap, and Helga is an example of the later.
Now heres where it gets interesting. We played around and took turns
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moaned that the flickering-tongue trick I was blasting her with reminded her of
some vibrating gizmo that she owned. Hmmm, I thought to myself... toy chick!
So I told her to fess-up show me her collection. Ha! Id guessed right, she dug
out an entire shoebox full of multi-colored contraptions that mustve made my
eyes bug open because it looked like she had enough battery-operated junk in
there to open up her own adult porno store!
Helga spilled her toys onto the bed and showed me the vibrator in
question, one of those hi-tech multi-functional willies with the little beaver or buzzbee or whatever the hell that thing was attached halfway down shaft. Its purpose
is to tickle the clit whilst the vibrator churns up pussy butter. However, as I
prepare to go to work on her with this beaver-gizmo she surprises me by pulling
me onto the bed and jumping on top of me cowgirl-style instead. We fucked like
this until I started making noises like I was ready to finish, then she suddenly
jumped off me and said, Lets make it last... use the vibrator on me!. Okay I
figure, so I flip her over and start to nail her with the beaver-gizmo just as Id
originally planned. Well, Helga was absolutely shot into orbit and about to cum in
less than a minute, but then I recognized my opportunity for revenge and
withdrew the beav just as she was about to blow off. Lets make it last, I
laughed. She let out a howl of sexual frustration like a wolf and Helgas face
grew all contorted and, well... horrible.
I dug my fingertips into her shivering body and ran them across her lean
form, telling her that I was spreading the aborted orgasmic energy around like
liquid electricity (I make this shit up as I go along...). Now she was making noises
that didnt even sound human! How great is this?
Scoping out the pile of sex toys now scattered across the floor, I spotted
one of those vibrating egg gizmos and got a spur-of-the-moment idea for my next
crazy move (escalation!). I grabbed the egg and lubed it up, then slowly worked
the device deep into her pussy. Id noticed earlier that she actually had a
treadmill parked in the corner. (Geez, what a workout freak! I knew then that I
had an obsessive personality on the hook for sure.) So I made Helga get up off
the bed and waddle across the room to her treadmill with the egg still stuffed
inside of her. It was kind of comical because she was trailing a length of white
wire out of her pussy leading to the remote control unit in my hand. It looked like
I had her on a leash that was attached to her pussy! She switched on the
treadmill and set it to a brisk walk as I instructed while I set the egg on to a low
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keep walking while I played with the speed control. Back and forth I zoomed the
dials while she struggled to hold her balance. Man, this chick loved sex games
I would later discover that Helga liked taking turns between playing submissive
and dominant roles.
Soon she was blowing her rocks so hard that she nearly collapsed onto the
treadmill! I actually had to grab a hold of her as she came because her knees
buckled. Helga was like a wild animal now her eyes were all crazy and she was
leering at me like I was a piece of meat to devour! Sheesh!
She called me frequently after that night of erotic mayhem and I have to
admit that the sex was smokin hot for quite a while. I became her drug by
molding myself into the agent of her fetish, and she was a willing addict. All this
because of a single lucky guess that got her to pull out that hidden toybox that
first evening. I got her. Intuition, hunches, inspirations... these are seductive
instruments sharpened on the whetstone of experience. Thats why I say that the
more you stay in the game the more good fortune will balance out all the bad
breaks, dud dates and other assorted disappointments of your dating life. So you
must have faith and keep fighting.
Me and Helga lasted for several months until she got into some strange
tease and denial shit that became just too much for me after a while. The moral
of this story though is simply that it doesnt always take the ability to move
mountains to steer a woman into the throes of sexual rapture and addiction,
because some of them are already 90% of there by the time you discover them!
Unlike guys however, women are very good at keeping their sexual desires
and fetishes camouflaged. Only when you finally step across the line separating
stranger from lover do they suddenly drop the Miss nice veneer. I mean, just
look at what happened here... there were no 3 dates, no action date, no big deal
building of rapport and trust in this particular case. These events all improve your
chances of success across the wide spectrum of women because they match up
nicely with the average female temperament and courting expectations, but that
doesnt mean you cant fall into a deal like I did with Helga where the process is
short-circuited and you just basically cut to the chase.
Women can be judgmental and difficult to please in many aspects, but
often not in a sexual one. Unless theyre former porno stars, most women have a
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effort on your part to be creative or even outlandish. This is one area where you
can actually park many of your insecurities your sexual performance certainly
has much more latitude than the actual act of trying to meet a woman does, thats
for sure.
All you have to do is show them that you are serious about playing the
game, and not afraid to take it all the way to its conclusion, and the walls can
come tumbling down mighty fast. How do you think this thing works in ordinary
life? People all over the world in hundreds of different cultures stumble through
this process not only is there no science involved, theres hardly any training to
be found either! As long as you can hit a high note here and there early on in the
relationship, it can be enough to lay-up a lasting impression that can carry you for
an entire lifetime.
So shoot for perfection if you like, but realize that in the sexual arena
anyway you can fall short and still find that shes yours for the taking.

Defining the Perfect Sexual Partner

At some point along your journey of life you should get clear on exactly
what you are looking for in terms of the perfect women, for you. Not necessarily
the society standard or common archetype in terms of looks, etc. Your, Ms.
Hottie. Ive always felt that sex, emotional fulfillment and things of that nature are
private issues that are unique to the individual. Its best to keep your own
counsel on these matters and take the well-intentioned advice of others with a
grain of salt. What do you want from a relationship in a sexual sense? Frequent,
madcap, pseudo-dangerous adventures?... passionate sex only after long buildups of anticipation and mutual teasing?... mellow closeness that doesnt always
lead to intercourse? Whatever it may be, taking the time to ponder your own
motives will unblock your thinking so that in a larger sense beyond mere dating
and hooking up you will know what youre looking for when you spot it at least in
terms of the character and temperament of the woman that you seek as a
partner.
One other factor to consider: theres something to be said about a
particular body style that you might not initially care much for, growing on you
once you begin to make an association between that body style and the
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thinking that you reject someone before theyve had a chance to weave their
complete spell around your heart. Once youve had sex with a woman a few
times and allow yourself to become swept away by other aspects of her sexual
nature beyond just her body morphology, that body will become associated in
your unconscious mind with strong erotic feelings! You may then find
yourself actually digging a body style that you wouldve never imagined from
simply looking at pictures of women in porno or whatever. What those images
lack are an emotional connection in your heart, and so therefore only the
visually hottest type (to you) seem compelling. The reality of being with a real
women however, serves up a far more comprehensive package that no porn
image possibly can, and so can entice in ways that you mayve never imagined.
What Im saying is keep an open mind and give her time to grow on you.
And dont automatically reject intriguing female personalities who seem interested
in you simply because their body looks to be the wrong type for you at first
glance. Learn to say yes and to explore all your opportunities with women.
Strange things happen in this charged realm of human experience, and at the
very least all your encounters are good practice and can help to keep your
socializing skills sharp for when you really need them.
Alright then, now lets take a look at how people match up sexually by
defining what I call the 4 Grades of Sexual Compatibility. These grades
separate two or three different types of personality styles into a variety of mixed
couples, and then attempts to predict what their sex lives will be like. See what
you think of this:

Grade A Two Child-like Adults

I believe that the absolute best sex occurs between two child-like adults,
plain and simple. By child-like, Im not talking about dysfunction idiots who cant
hold a job or who like to pass their days as full time drug addicts. People like this
are actually crummy at sex because they lack the intellectual prowess to be
creative. Im talking about men and women who can shed their grown up
veneer along with their clothes and leave all the grim concerns of adult life locked
outside the bedroom door each and every time they fuck. This is a tall order for a
lot of people, especially those whove stocked up on responsibilities in every
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Who is this child-like chick? Emotionally open-minded... not afraid to be

different or engage in silly role play now and then... can cut loose and get stoned,
swap or swing with other couples, share a hot bath and a bottle of wine, make
homemade porno videos with you, etc. In terms measured by her lack of
inhibition and willingness to experiment shes what guys call a home run! For
women like this, sex is important! You might be thinking, who the hell doesnt
think sex is important?. Are you kidding me? Look around you... a lot of people
give other bullshit in their life far more priority than their sexual experience.
Maybe its necessary they do so, but sad nonetheless and it doesnt have to be
like this.
Few people get boxed into this mindset by random events that they never
saw coming most have secretly embraced their anti-erotic life philosophy as a
choice because some aspect of human sexuality distresses them. Too busy, too
much other important shit going on, too tired, etc. All excuses. These individuals
were frightened at some point in their past by some aspect of human sexuality,
and their prudish attitude now serves as a means of managing the perceived
danger that sex still holds for them. Its what psychologists call a coping strategy.
If you enjoy something and its important to you, youll find a way to do it.
Whereas if something scares you then youll develop strategies to avoid that.
This is essentially what you are dealing with whenever you encounter an asexual,
low-sex-drive type of person. Most of the time it has nothing to do with biology or
hormones or any of that shit, its mental.
Anyway, if you can hook up with this elusive Grade A-type girl I predict
that you will have a rockin sex life. So if you encounter a chick who seems a bit
too flighty, ditzy or immature for her age, I say go for it! This is the personality
type that is easily talked into doing all that nasty fun stuff that you and me want to
do in the sack! You may be driven nuts by her maddening antics outside the
bedroom, but if you can learn to tolerate or at least make peace with her nutty
behavior you will have a girlfriend (or a wife) that you dont have to spend hours
begging to fuck in the hot tub, model a new pair of stiletto heels for you or give
you a lap dance for your birthday. Dont be put off by women because they seem
too immature or you feel they wont make good housekeepers or something.
Fuck all that... make more money and get a maid and a nanny if she cant clean
or cook. Do you want a new mommy to wipe your fat ass or a hot fuck? What is
your priority in life sexually? Figure this out or be miserable.

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Grade B Two adults with an Occasional Child-like Streak

Running through Them
These are the kind of people who will go nuts once in a while, but are for
the most part reserved in temperament. They will cut loose and take a chance on
doing something out of character in order to keep things alive and fresh, but sex
is somewhat down their life priority list a bit. This probably describes most people
below the age of 40 who would consider themselves to have a good sex life.
Though the frequency of sexual activity may be less than the Grade A couple and
the depth of experimentation not quite as wild and crazy, people like this can
have a lot of fun without too much negative drama getting in the way.
Compatibility is the secret ingredient that makes these first two levels
work. The fact that both partners are similar in their strength of desire is what
insures their erotic experiences will be fun and satisfying. Thats why you need to
keep searching until you find that great sexual energy match for yourself.

Grade C One Child-like Plus One Semi-serious Adult

This situation has a chance to work if the more sexually spirited partner can
pull the other one into his or her adventurous mindset, at least now and then. In
other words, the freer spirit must have a strong allure over the stuffed shirt! The
danger here is that the exact opposite is just as likely to occur, that the serious
partner will assume the role of "older parent" over the more light-hearted one.
This can snuff out the passion real fast when two people assume these dissimilar
roles where one begins to feel responsible (almost like a parent) for the other
one. Not in a healthy, concerned way, but in a way that is patronizing to the point
of possibly being condescending.
Great sex can only occur between partners that are on a similar level
in terms of emotional and intellectual temperament. If one partner starts to
consider the other like a child whose life needs to be micro-managed at every
turn, two things will happen, both of which are poison to your sexual relationship.
The submissive partner begins to resent the more dominant partner the same
way a teenager resents a domineering parent, while the serious partner begins to
lose sexual interest in the weaker one. This happens because the dominator
finds it increasingly difficult to see his or her lesser partner as an equal in terms of
emotional-mental development. And we have strong internal inhibitors, both
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children is considered abhorrent in every human culture, and rightly so. To a
lesser extent, this same type of dynamic slowly begins to coalesce in these sorts
of relationships and this vague creepiness factor begins to nip away at the edges
of the unconscious mind until it finally becomes impossible for the dom to see
the sub in a sexual way. And in this case Im not talking about dom-sub in the
usual sexy / kinky sense but in an authoritative one. Once this happens, the sex
is pretty much dead.
This is a formula for eventual breakup as the more adventurous adult will
chaff under the weight of the more serious, increasingly non-sexual partner and
either cheat or do something else to finally destroy the relationship. A lot of
married people find themselves locked in this sort of Mexican standoff. Some
learn to accept this situation because it probably seems better than loneliness
but I say that if youre not having regular, enjoyable sex with someone that youre
living with then youre already alone.
Better to be passionately alone for real than to exist in this joyless limbo.

Grade D Two very Serious, very Responsible Adults

Grade D is the perfect score for this pairing. Sex life? Whats that?
These are the kind of people who are way too serious about the whole world in
general to bother themselves with kid stuff like sex. They are often overloaded
with all sorts of personal and/or social responsibilities that eat up most of their
time and passion anyway. Couples like this (if they fuck at all) dont have the
energy for anything beyond a little missionary-position sex once in a while. I
suppose this might be an acceptable way to approach life for all the other 1001
aspects that it entails beyond sex, but its certainly not the best deal for erotic
fulfillment. Im sure you know of people like this, particularly if you hang with the
over 45-50 crowd.
In a nutshell heres the problem: these types of individuals cannot find a
way to let go of their responsible personas even in the bedroom for fear of losing
the all-important respect that they thrive on (which is more important to them
than having fun with their bodies). Their sex is boring and infrequent because its
threatening to them in some way. Eventually they come to some mutual
agreement to end all coitus completely by using a variety of excuses (too old, too
tired, no privacy, I feel like shit, etc.). The real trouble is that sex has no priority

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for people like this, and theres not much else to say about them other than its
too bad. Its doubtful any of them are reading this book.

Keep the Child in You Alive

Heres a big scoop of some of my own personal Life Philosophy for you:
I believe that it is only our ability to shed our responsible adult personas and
embrace the pleasure potential contained within our nervous systems without
guilt that makes it possible to experience sex at its very highest level.
Sex is, after all, play. And who knows better about all things regarding play
than the mind of a child? Kind of like our Grade A couple, right? This can be
an especially difficult balancing act for many men to pull off however, because
men also bear the burden of having to appear macho and even somewhat aloof
in everything they do. Including, unfortunately, sex. I say unfortunately because
while the behaviors and attitudes of the HSM might be essential for attracting
women all this macho-man stuff is a two-edged sword in the sense that it can
be detrimental to your ultimate enjoyment of the sex that comes into your life as a
result. It forces you to remain limited to a domineering posture, and this
restricts the free and complete expression of your own pleasure.

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Many men remain forever ill at ease with certain aspects of their sexuality,
such as being verbally expressive beyond a certain degree or whatever. This sort
of thing can just seem too uncomfortably effeminate to a lot of guys. Remember
the so-called fag slip that I coached you to go for earlier? Yeah, like that. These
cultural restrictions can form a nasty straight-jacket that box-in both your
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You can actually see this cultural contrast in action by comparing US and
Euro-type porn films. I often like to note the difference between European and
American men and the way in which the Euros seem vastly more comfortable
with their sexuality, at least as depicted in these movies. The Euros seem to
have more uninhibited fun because they give themselves permission to feel
(with the exception of the uptight Brits... somehow Ive got to get you guys to
loosen up over there!... ;-). Ive seen foreign movies where two guys are about to
double-team some chick, and they actually help each other get undressed! I defy
you to find me a mainstream (not bi) American porno flick where this sort of thing
happens! Trust me, it doesnt. Two American dudes will both gladly shove their
cocks into some trollops chops for a double finish, but help your buddy strip off
his briefs?... now thats stepping over some homo-erotic line that just doesnt get
stepped over in these here parts!
Well I say its time to break the male erotic freeze and consider a different
role thats long been neglected by men. Time to let the wolf howl in a higher key!
What Im saying is that, to the degree that both you and your partner are able to
step out from behind these restrictive culturally-imposed psychological masks and
free yourselves to feel as humans instead of as men and women, you will
have taken a major step towards creating a matrix of total sexual satisfaction
in your world. Grade A couples will fall right into this sensual alliance with little
effort, while B, C and (almost certainly) D will have an increasingly more difficult
time of it. This is all your call of course, but thats my advice.

Power Issues Can Fuck-up the Sex

Eventually, most relationships will reach a point where both partners begin
to compete over who will dominate or wear the pants and when the damage
from this battle spills over into the bedroom, you can pretty much kiss all the hot
sex goodbye. Sex in a relationship will only remain at a high level in terms of
both frequency and quality until these sorts of power issues completely ruin
everything. Competition for whos going to be the top dog will create resentments
that leach away at all the good feelings that form the foundation of sensuality.
After all, who wants to give someone that youre always mad at an orgasm? Its
supposed to be a loving gift!
Man, I wish I could serve up a clean cut answer for this problem I would
bottle that baby and sell it to the millions of married couples who sleep in
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grown between them. They stay together either for the sake of their kids or
because theyre afraid of change worse than they despise their dead n gone sex
life. The problem from a mans perspective is that if you feel that releasing
yourself to act more sensual and loving towards your partner will involve some
type of un-manly submission on your part, then you wont be able to play that
game. Your misguided need to maintain relationship authority prevents it.
Unfortunately, if you cant achieve full psychological release during sex you will
end up frustrated on some level... even if the physical release was adequate. And
so theres our dilemma.
I guess that like most everything else, awareness is your best friend and
ultimately the means to finding some solution you can live with. If you are aware
that these power issues are creeping into your relationship and beginning to have
a negative effect on the quality of your sex, you should take immediate steps to
confront the problem before it grows out of control. Nip it in the bud, and make
sure she does the same. Get all your grievances out on the table as soon as
they crop up. No stewing around or her tactics are likely to devolve into
passive-aggressive actions like the silent treatment and other nasty shit which
will continue to be played out in the bedroom. If you have to, let the dishes fly!
Better you both process your angry feelings together and discharge them in one
big explosive mess than allow them to crystalize into these sorts of venomous,
ongoing resentments.
But dont just argue for the sake of being bullheaded... resolve! Your goal
should be peace and tranquility rather than just putting notches in your
gunstock. Work out a compromise on whatever issues trouble the relationship as
soon as they pop up never let things fester into a prolonged pissing contest.
Model compromise and reasonableness for her if you must (she mayve been
bred amidst an insane family of bickering maniacs!). Show her how its done. If
you make keeping the peace a priority, then you should easily be able to dump all
your shit at the bedroom door every night... and remain secure, uninhibited and
childlike in your approach to sex within those special walls. This is how
outstanding long term relationship sex happens.

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Shamelessness is the Key
Just as no vice really needs to be illegal since it comes complete with its
own punishments, the virtues of a well-balanced erotic life contain their own
innate payoffs as well. If I had to boil down everything thats truly crucial about
human sexuality into a single core idea, it would be this: shamelessness. Your
ability to experience sexual pleasure as a high-functioning human being is directly
related to the amount of shame that you have or havent had associated with
your own personal sense of sexuality during the course of your emotional and
social development.
Learning how to subdue or eradicate this shame is the key to everything
good that wants to happen in your life.
By becoming shameless, Im talking about pulling out all the stops and
learning how to luxuriate in your pleasure potential. Shamelessness is all about
giving yourself the freedom to get high on your own neurochemistry devoid of
moral restrictions other than the obvious of not hurting anyone else in the
process. Shame is a powerful tool for human manipulation. It is used by nations
and societies and parents and cults and anyone else who has an interest in
managing the thinking and behavior of others, either groups or as individuals.
The purveyors of shame fancy themselves as having stumbled on The Way and
are going to twist you into sharing their views for your own good. What a joke.
Well, just make sure this joke is never played on you. You may live in a
puritanical, guilt-driven culture (or household), but you dont have to share in its
group-think model. Steel yourself with the determination to break free of
whatever form of psychological tyranny mayve been unleashed upon you, and
make a stand to become your own man. It is you who must ultimately decide
how youre going to play this game called Life. Coming to terms with your guilt in
matters sexual is surely a major part of it. So find yourself a cute little friend to
play with and get busy creating the life that you desire for yourself and to hell
with the designs of others who have no interest in making your ride on this ball
the best it can possibly be. Thats your job anyway, so get clear and then make it
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Section Overview:
Rely on touch to communicate your escalating sexual desire words
should always be whispered seductively, never spoken in a normal tone of
voice. A breathless tonality calls out to her soul, triggering processes that
provoke instinctive mating urges in her.
Box-out all distractions once you have moved into the physical phase of
the seduction. Here is the ideal environment:
1) A room mood lit in some subdued, romantic fashion
2) Food and/or booze is important because the satisfied
state that exists after a good meal supports sexual
arousal. Your brain is pre-adjusted into a chemical
pleasure mode.
3) A cozy couch or love-seat for kissing, petting and the
beginnings of sex play. A bed nearby... yours, hers or a
hotel room.
4) Shut Every Phone, Pager, Cellphone and
Blackberry in your vicinity OFF!!! You cant work
without privacy, which can be hard to come by in this
nutty modern world, so take deliberate steps to create a
shell of privacy around the two of you.
Make yourself into the very best lay shes ever had! The secret is to
customize each experience for her by staying tuned into what she seems to dig
the most, and then focusing on those particular things during your lovemaking.
It often doesnt take a lot here, even a little creativity puts you in a special class.
Main Feature of First Sex: The single overriding theme that should guide
the first sexual experience you have with any woman is for you to be emotionally
open with her. By this I mean you need to be verbally expressive and talk up a
storm during the actual sex act... no being quiet now! Describe what you want to
do to her, tell her how great she looks, that shes exotic in some way, how she
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scream loud when she comes! This forces her to take up your cause of making
yours an exceptional sexual relationship. You must model the passion that you
desire, leave nothing to chance! Demonstrate how its done.
Dont...
1) ...Last too long
2) ...Act like youre a director filming a porn movie
3) ...Ask her to participate in any bizarre sex act too soon
Do...
1) ...Act like you are amazed at how she looks with her clothes off!
2) ...Tell her that something about her body looks very exotic to you
3) ...Pull a fag slip every so often to reveal your emotional underbelly
Main Feature of Second Sex: Shes been on your mind a lot, and its
been making you crazy! This pent up passion makes you want to drink her up
when you set eyes upon her again for the first time since your last encounter.
You are barely in control. It stuns her to see you completely sell out for her like
this... its an enormous compliment that clicks a switch in her head. Her
reserve may well vanish in favor of a new-found slutiness that she links to you!
Main Feature of Third Sex and Beyond: Establish the Foundation of
Her Addiction to You! This is where you get to really turn up the volume and
make your move towards the outer limits of sensation and fantasy.
1) Determine Her Most Likely Sexual Weakness
2) Become Her Drug Based upon that Weakness
3) Get Her Addicted to You
Defining your perfect sexual partner is all about matching sex drives and
levels of erotic creativity. Try not to let relationship power issues mess up your
sex life. Do this by getting problems out in the open right away and clearing them
off the deck, rather than dragging them into the bedroom with you.
Make Shamelessness and the accepting of your right to total erotic
freedom of enjoyment your own personal philosophy and screw those that
would stand in your way with their bullshit ideologies. Youre in charge of your
own life, so design it as you choose.

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Well, I came across a child of God,

he was walking along the road,
and I asked him where are you going?
this he told me...
We are stardust,
We are golden,
We are billion-year old carbon,
and weve got to get ourselves
back to the garden
Woodstock
Crosby, Stills & Nash, 1969
eah... woodstock baby! Hooray for all us faded out old hippies. Our big
old Boomer generation is pretty much burned down to a little roach now, but I say
we still have a few tokes left in us! We have witnessed the most incredible
changes in all of human history from the A-bomb to the Internet saw
populations rise and nations crumble... watched as men walked the moon, while
others tried to terrorize us back to the Middle Ages. Weve allowed ourselves to
become swept up in a global interconnectivity that adjoins individuals to anyone
and anywhere on the planet at their own whim.
Just think about that for a second... Im not talking about governments and
master control centers full of Big Brothers wearing grey uniforms in charge of all
this technology, but individuals. What doomsday-promoting science fiction writer
ever predicted our present state of affairs? None, thats who. Its all been a
grand surprise and the most amazing part has to be the ability to watch it unfold
in our living rooms whilst completely safe and secure. Sometimes you just have
to step back and take the whole amazing deal in and reflect on how lucky all of us
are to be able to stand astride our mad, mad world and, like ancient Roman gods,
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If theres any downside to this intellectually rich but passively-involved

lifestyle though, its that it has allowed us to become too self-focused. Our own
relatively minor problems eventually begin to seem imposing to us and even
overwhelming, and this loss of perspective is to our own detriment.

The Clock Never Rests

That phase of life marked by late adolescence into early adulthood acts as
a pattern mold which shapes the bulk of our lives placing constraints on how
much we can accomplish before our motivation runs out and we become frozen
in our ways. Theres a danger of getting so caught up in our mental universe that
we end up designing a romance world within our heads that we begin to prefer
to reality. I did just this sort of thing during the course of my own romantically
mis-spent youth. Drinking games and pot parties marked my teen years, along
with several major infatuations with a few of the cute girls from the neighborhood
like I talked about at the very beginning of this book. Well, what I didnt tell you is
that those infatuations turned out to be more detrimental to my emotional
compass than Id ever imagined, because when I finally did manage to score a
couple of real girlfriends in my mid 20's to 30's, I discovered that something
strange had happened: the fire had gone out.
Its true. By the time I actually had a real live girl to focus my love upon, I
found that those intense passions and longings had simply gone away.
Vanished. I felt no bitterness or brooding for them, just... nothing. I tell you this
only to pass along the warning that there is some danger in delaying the
gratification of these kinds of basic emotional needs for too long. My sample of
one sure suggests it anyway. I think the love-deprived mind forms a mental
callus just as certain as digging ditches hardens the palms of your hands, and all
those unused feelings slowly begin to wither away like dead branches after
awhile. You may not even realize its happening, until one day you have a
genuine opportunity to finally unleash your pent-up feelings... only to find that
theyve abandoned you.
Where is that uber-high of love and happiness that made you want to sing
songs about some girl you knew in high school? You know, the smokin hottie
who normally wouldnt give you the time of day but just happened to laugh at one
of your dumb jokes in the cafeteria that afternoon? Ecstacy! Why cant I go
running around spinning fantasies of non-existent love like I used to... founded on
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walking on clouds for days back then! These feelings have a shelf life it turns out.
So I would caution about settling into the false belief that you have an unlimited
amount of time to get going or catch up on a long-neglected romantic life,
because you dont. You must resolve to live your life the way in which life
demands to be lived, otherwise you will do a great disservice to yourself.

Refresh Your Wonder Every Day

These problems of clarity rarely result from ignorance or poor upbringing
so much as from a closed mind. Ive always maintained that a closed mind isnt
just predictable and boring, its a completely ineffective outlook for making it
through modern life any more. Just what exactly stays the same anymore that
you can have a locked-down attitude about? Technology, pop-culture, the
scientific workings of the universe, lifestyles, biology, the price of anything,
political systems... what? So why should any of your assumptions about people
especially remain static in the face of this ever-changing background? Well of
course, they shouldnt.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to call this phenomenon a closed-off
mind, since there usually can be found a time in everyones life when new ideas
flowed freely, and we basked in the thrill of daily discovery! But then something
changed and all that was brought to a lurching halt. You somehow reached a
point where you begin to think ...hey, Ive got it all figured out now, I know the
score... so take your shit and shove it!
Stereotyping, one-dimensional thinking, being hyper-critical and overly
skeptical of new ideas, believing that anything which lies beyond your usual circle
of experience is a big lie, etc. The worst part is that people actually take pride in
their self-repressed ignorance. They love it! Theyve waited for years to reach a
point in their lives where they can strut around spouting off stupid opinions about
everything under the sun with abject certainty. Why, theyve paid their dues!
They stuck it out, were burned and lived to tell about it. Theyve been there,
done that... theyre not kids anymore, theyve been around the block, they
werent born yesterday. Hey, theyve arrived!
If any of this sounds like you, then I suggest you flush this shitty attitude
straight down the toilet before its too late. Because time flies. Each day of your
life needs to entertain as much potential for new adventure as it can... every
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an inconvenience or annoyance. There are no stereotypes in your world, no

assumptions to be made about anything. That kind of thinking is the weakness of
the lazy brain.
What?... you mean Im supposed to start over with a blank slate every time
I encounter a new person and not apply what I know from my vast experience to
figure them out in two seconds?
Im telling you thats exactly what you must do.
Fuck all that, its too much work!
Really? I think its too much work assuming that you already know every
answer, too much work ignoring the wonder in the mundane, too much effort
spent short-cutting instead of considering. I see it all around me, and I just dont
get it.
For me, pull-tabbing and meeting interesting new women isnt some great
holy grail quest its just another facet of my unbridled interest in everything
that surrounds me! I look at the sweet curve of a sexy young thigh peeking
through a sundress or a pump heel dangling off a cute little manicured foot with
the same kind of joy I experienced when I glanced up one quiet night in February
of 2004 and saw 5 planets Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and the waxing
crescent moon all strung out like pearls along a great overhead arc in the sky. I
could imagine myself stuck to the side of our spinning ball and actually feeling the
gulf of vacuum separating us. What a magnificent time to be alive and be able to
see such a thing and understand what it really is! Hundreds of years ago you
could look at the very same spectacle and have no concept of what these strange
objects actually were. How far away they were, what they were made of, what
their surfaces looked like. Who couldve imaged the oceans of Europa or the
miles-high liquid nitrogen geysers of Triton? Other worlds, fantastic worlds all.
What Im saying is that it doesnt have to be any different with any other
aspect of your life... a wink from a cute girl, a morning birdsong, an astronomical
vista... I am gifted every day to be somehow, someway standing here lucky
enough to be drinking it all in. You might say this is just the way I am, but I tell
you I had numerous chances along the way to fall into miserable lockstep with the
rest of humanity and adopt their cynical, lazy attitudes. I had to work to keep all
their mental poison off of me! I had to make a conscious decision not to

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succumb to the popular characterization of what it meant to be an ordinary guy,

to relentlessly confront the impulse to become jaded to all the wonder
surrounding me. To refuse to measure my life by the things I didnt possess...
and then to sink into a moody depression over it. Hooking up with women
becomes a chore in this state and a somewhat pointless one at that. Were
these girls going to somehow save me from my own cancerous thinking? Act as
a temporary distraction from my simmering rage against the machine?
Yeah, yeah I know... you cant just snuff out every bit of knowledge youve
accumulated every morning and start all over again like its Groundhog Day but
in some ways this is actually a better way to encounter life. For instance, Ive
been driving a car for over 25 years, and by now I have a finely developed sense
of when some other driver near me is about to do something stupid. Im sure this
sixth sense has kept me out of a few accidents over the years, and I certainly
wouldnt want to push the RESET button on all my driving experience and go
back to driving like Im 16 again. But Im not talking about surrendering all your
valuable life experience, which is impossible to do anyway... just those petrified
attitudes and mental shortcuts thatve grown like a callus across your
brain!
How to begin this process? Pick up a book and read about some subject
or realm of imagination that youve never had any interest in before (perhaps a
work of fiction?...). Go visit a place that youve always wanted to see like the
Grand Canyon or the Pyramids. Get a new haircut, shave the beard, join a health
club and get ripped. Look up an old friend, or drive to a nearby city and see if you
can make a new one. Join a class maybe one that travels together. Go find a
casino and lose some money. Apply for a job in a field youve never considered.
Ask questions about things you assume to be true already... about politics,
science, cultural habits, religion, etc. Pretend that you just stepped off a flying
saucer from a different planet and everything around you is new and amazing!
By going out and re-examining everything about the world anew, you
literally force yourself to drink up the wonder of being alive. Some of you guys
will buy into this idea and some of you will laugh it off. Just be thankful you
werent born some lowly slave 500 years ago when life was nothing more than a
thankless struggle to get some food and avoid experiencing as much pain and
fear as possible. Think about how much better we moderns have it today with
our ability to travel the globe and entertain ourselves, pretty much at will. And all
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Hell, maybe most of us were slaves once upon a time in a past life.
Ninety-nine percent of all ancient humans were either enslaved or lived in such
crushing poverty and social injustice that it might as well have been slavery. In
that case, just think... this is the incarnation that youve been waiting for!
Mankind finally got it all going with our fancy new science, technology and
political systems (shit, this is probably the first time youve ever had indoor
plumbing! ). So try to have some goddamn fun this time around!

Im thinking that one of the reasons you mayve picked up a book like this
in the first place is because youre feeling distressed about the way some aspect
of your life has unfolded so far. Maybe its not even about women perhaps just
some nagging sense of unrealized potential or something you cant even put a
finger on. Sometimes an emptiness this vague can feel as if its closing in from
every angle.
Everyones life is a series of phases that each last about 7-10 years, and
then gradually melt away to be replaced by the next one. One of the most critical
life skills that any person can possess is knowing how to successfully complete
the phase that theyre currently in and move on... because standing still or going
back is an illusion. Clinging to a past phase that contains unfinished business
for us is a formula for becoming inappropriate as you age, and for eventual
emptiness as well. Yeah you can pull it off for awhile you can pretend to be 19
when your 25 and 25 when youre 35, but reality has a way of catching up and
making a fool of you. At some point you will lose your appearance, your health,
your hard-on... and ultimately all your motivation as well. Im at the doorway to
advanced middle age myself, peeking in over the threshold, and I dont like the
smell. This is not going to be fun.
So what sort of reasonable long-term hopes should we entertain for our
love lives? Theres really only two general paths you can take I suppose: you can
chose to go the traditional marriage / monogamy / kids route, or you can be a
serial player in the sense that you hop from one relationship to the next without
ever sinking deeps roots. The reason I believe this to be an either-or choice is
that there simply isnt enough time in a typical life to do both. Think about it... if
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to be in it for at least 15 years. Most people will try to make a marriage work for
the sake of their kids even if they flat out hate each other. The split comes after
the pressure to explode reaches critical mass around the 15-20 year mark, once
those kids are grown and becoming self-sufficient.
And now suddenly youre a free man. Maybe a guy looking to switch gears
and play the field for awhile, or start hunting down a new wife immediately, or...
who knows? Every persons life ride is as unique as a snowflake. But the point is
that you aint 25 anymore! Now youre in your 40's and the field is a whole lot
different... lots of man-hating re-treads waiting to tear your head off!
Or you can flip things around and go the other way entirely... play the field
as a young man, zig-zagging your way through the clutches of those women who
would like to bag you with a wedding ring. Deftly avoiding the responsibilities of
husband and fatherhood for the thrill of the chase instead. Thats cool, but too
many guys think they can have it both ways: chase tail into their 40's and put off
becoming responsible until their older, then settle down. But can you really? At
what point does it become ridiculous to think about starting a family? You want to
chase around a six year old in your mid-fifties? Good luck.
But hey, maybe you do! I have no definitive right or wrong answer here.
All Im saying is that at some point you may think that its time to switch gears in
some big way, and you may do so unaware of the unpleasant surprises lurking
ahead... one of which is that there just isnt enough quality time in a lifetime to
grant both of these paths complete justice. My own life will harbor many regrets
in this sense, I can see that now... despite the fact that what was once an
insurmountable problem for me is pretty much covered now. The damage
wrought by my late entry into the game insures that I will never experience the full
scope of what mightve been. But hey, as they say in Russia, tough shit-ski (do
they?).
The steady creep of time and the need to play through your Life Phases
insures that you simply cant have it all that a choice is inevitable. And where
there is choice, there is always going to be some remorse for the path unchosen.
Just make sure that you are ultimately the one doing the choosing, dont allow
Fate or Fear to hold the steering wheel.
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Im looking out my window right now wondering how to wrap this thing up,
and I see my neighbor outside mowing his lawn. Actually its not the person who
lives there, that would be a pleasant middle-aged woman named Anna. Its her
dad. He stops over to help out with the chores every now and then. He looks to
be a frail guy somewhere in his late seventies or eighties. Im nervously keeping
an eye on him as I write this because, well, its a big lawn and its a very hot day
out there, you know what I mean? Its weird though... my first impression is that I
kind of resent the fact that hes doing something a little bit dangerous for a guy
his age, and forcing me to be responsible to watch out for him!
But you know what? It just occurred to me that... fuck me. Thats right,
fuck me. Im staring at a picture of exactly how I would like to be when Im 80!...
healthy enough to think I can push around a lawn mower, and decrepit-looking
enough to make all the neighbors worry about it. Listening to a Yankees game
on the radio with a half-finished cold one chilling on the porch step still waiting for
me. Let em all watch and worry. Hell with em.
Moments like this get me to thinking about the final curtain. Whats the
deal with death anyway... is it a resetting of the clock of consciousness? A return
to simple non-existence? Or is there more? Is your life simply an amazing but
pitilessness affair played out before an unconscious universe? Or is it a great gift
from another Being and another Dimension of Reality one that defies detection
from within our cosmic platform bound by the hardened laws of physics? Weve
pulled apart quarks and bosons and postulated on the time-bending effects of
black holes, but no basis for the continuation of consciousness can be gleaned
from the laws of biology as theyve been gracious enough to reveal themselves to
us. No solid answer for this ultimate question has yet come our way.
And yet, incredibly, isnt it this very time limit established by our eventual
demise that makes life worth living? It seems to me that when the fat, greasy part
of life has boiled away into the fire pit of history, all thats left is little more than the
ashes of regret. I dont know if when I die Ill go away to some alternate reality or
cease to exist as I once was... or who knows what.
All I know is that when I finally do drop dead on that lawn in the sweltering
summer heat with the little birdies all happily singing around me, I hope to hell the

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biggest regret I can think of in that last moment of consciousness is that cold beer
still waiting for me... the last one that I never got to finish. And Im going to do
everything I can between now and then to make sure that it is. I hope that
whoever you are wherever in the world you are youll step up and join me in
this grand and mysterious adventure.
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