LOL, this just proves that if the term "PUA" is ever used, it causes almost across-the-board irrational reactions to the term even by relative intelligent people, since they box it into some specific definition they don't like, even though the myriad voices all saying PUA is a "scam" at the same time (as in this thread) aren't even defining it the same way

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MarcosZeitola wrote: ↑August 28th, 2022, 4:53 am
"Cold approaching" random girls is retarded anyway. The way to "get girls" is to socialize, have some friends in a place and hang out with people where both genders are present. You'll meet girls in a more "organic" setting, joke around a little bit, charm her, maybe have some drinks and... bring her home. None of this is rocket science. If you're just a corny dude walking up randomly to complete strangers with cheesy pick-up lines like a moron,
of course you're going to get shot down like the buffoon you are.
No sane man would ever listen to, much less PAY MONEY for the advice of PUA, aka, Pick Up Autists. It's a complete scam and everyone with two brain cells to rub together know this lol.
There's truth in parts of that as a potentially sound approach, though you're painting with too broad a brush in implying only the approach you like best is effective or sound, but
@MarcosZeitola do you realize that what you're describing is what most people would consider being a PUA in a night life and social environment (as opposed to day time with or without "cold approaches")?
MarcosZeitola wrote: ↑August 28th, 2022, 4:53 am
As for prostitution, it's bullshit too. Why spend over a hundred bucks or more for just one lay when you could get sex for free for just the price of a few drinks? All you have to do is have half-decent social skills and half-decent looks, a bit of charisma, and somewhat of a social circle.
I agree about my disliking prostitution too, and strongly agree on how you can get lays only for the price of a few drinks (which doesn't rule out escalating into an actual relationship in theory, regardless of what squawks tradpill types have about the alleged evils of premartial sex), but I only partly agree on the rest:
In the first place, forget about half-decent looks (unless you just meant some presentation of your appearance, as opposed to innate perceived genetic attractiveness), I have seen tons of veteran womanizers who have none, whether it's goblinoid types like that Neil Strauss who was so ugly and so short he had to wear "elevation" shoes to add 1.5-2 inches to his height but still ended up learning how to do it and getting laid "like a rock star" as the saying goes, or the more biker type cavemen who look like fantasy-RPG ogres who eat raw meat and drink motor oil but have their own knack for attracting and laying the women despite this.
Social skills and charisma are all completely learnable. So if they don't get the reactions the like from people at their current level, that'd be a better area to work on in a less embarrassing context than randomly trying cold approaches while they're still inexperienced or lacking confidence, no argument there.
But a social circle is one approach many specialize in, but not a requirement: Would James Bond (the real one, not our hard-working moderator friend who pays a bazillion euros for sex at brothels or with escorts) need a social circle to lay the women? No.
I'm not totally closed off to the idea of scoring women through a social circle in theory, but up to now (and still at this point in life) it would be a completely counterproductive hindrance getting in the way and make it harder and more of a nuisance, not remotely an advantage.
I like my friends (3 of them are like brothers to me) and am glad to go hang out with them, but if getting women was the objective in going out, they'd frankly be completely in my way and only making it harder for me to get the women even if I was in a similar night life environment to what you seem to be describing here.
The simple point: Scoring through a social circle is only one theoretically viable way to get women, not a requirement or even an advantage, it just depends on the man + the social circle in question in each case.
When I learned to do this with some conscious thought I had recently moved to a new city in my early 20s, and I wanted to get good with women without having my friends around because there's always lots of beer and clouds of pot-smoke in the air + we always start breaking each other's balls (none of which I see facilitating easier lays with or without relationship potential), and I didn't want to waste time trying to get involved in some other social circle I had no interest in when what I really wanted was to get women, not to socialize or network.
(Being out with female friends is potentially another story, though. I have not been out with them specifically for much beside having some drinks or clothes shopping, never trying to score with other women before while with them, but that strikes me as something potentially more obviously advantageous that would actually get other women interested in you... But a lot of guys who need to learn how to get women don't have any female friends starting out, so it's a moot point for them until they level up a bit in more universally applicable areas that will help...)
MarcosZeitola wrote: ↑August 28th, 2022, 4:53 am
Money, of course, helps, but you will never feel any sense of achievement or joy if all you do is "insert coins" like some girl is just a vending machine for sex... paying for her to let you touch her while she lets better men get her for free.
I just used the vending machine analogy when having a friendly argument with someone about this subject yesterday, LOL.
It was not on this forum, but I have also seen some threads posted here saying "Western" women are supposedly horrible for not putting out after 3-4 dinner dates, but the guys in the article sounded like they acted like a bunch of dicks and were messing with their phones during the date, so they made the women nervous and uncomfortable even though the men did have money.
Sounded like they paid to much $$$ on dinner dates when they probably should've set up a shorter date spending at most the cost of a few drinks, and tried to be more warmly engaging (as well as escalating things by getting as hands-on as they could get away with while still being a gentleman), instead of being a bunch of duds that made the chicks nervous or uncomfortable, but at an excessively expensive dinner date, and then capped it off by getting mad that she still wouldn't put out yet by the end of date #3 or #4 or whatever.
It's another example of why I think they should treat it as a learnable skill and try to enjoy it with a sense of humor about awkwardness during the learning process, rather than coming up with cerebral counterproductive theories about flashing money and 'status' around to supposedly "show value" and imagine that's why the women will want to have sex, and then blame the women when the SMV-based "insert coins" theory doesn't result in a lay....
