MrPeabody wrote: ↑November 26th, 2011, 10:00 am
There was "how to pick up girl" books long before PUA. But, the "How to pick up girls" theme was reworked and framed as a "superior" technology using the pseudo science NLP and Hypnosis. This is just marketing flim flam. I would suggest just focusing on your right to be an intelligent consumer and prudently avoid people who will tend to sell you an inferior product and charge you several times what it is worth.
@MrPeabody You're smart (and antisemitic, like me), and I appreciate your Stock Trading as the Ideal Business thread, but I have to object to writing off the entire history of PUA literature as being a marketing scam or hyped product somehow: I bet most good stuff a lot of you guys can also get free floating around on PDF sites or something anyway.
Key issue, as I see it: How are men who are currently challenged in attracting women and leading women in conversation (as well as "closing the deal" and getting them in the sack) going to learn it, if they don't learn by reading some books about it (or theoretically having someone teach them)?
Some men do OK fumbling through interactions with women and winging it (and an even smaller number are "naturals"), but a lot of those guys f**k up their relationships later or get cheated on because they didn't put enough effort into learning how women tick (so to speak), so they also could've benefited by reading the literature on this subject.
But frustrated confused/inexperienced men should read as much as they can on this subject, so they have more perspectives and knowledge, especially in this nutcase age we're living in now where you can barely get away from the kike porno tsunami, and yet the population is filled with throngs of "incels", and there are an abnormally high number of worthwhile men (and women) who have never even had a girlfriend (or boyfriend) in their lives?
I think we need a thread on the best PUA/"seduction" books and resources. (I don't know what the best term for "knowhow in scoring with women is." I don't like the term "PUA" because it sounds gimmicky, and don't like "Seduction" because it sounds like you're leading a woman into ruin, when really they love it if you know how to attract them and get them in the sack.)
Oh, also, I don't know who claimed what when it comes to specific PUA personalities, but hypnosis isn't some kind of a scam, and many (I think maybe even most) women love that kind of thing!
(I do agree that NLP is just weak-form hypnosis that's also overhyped and marketed, but it could still be useful to some guys as a psychological and light self-hypnosis group of techniques.)