![]() ![]() The reactions I received after I started working on it have ranged from curt snubs to overwhelming enthusiasm. I contacted the organizers, identified myself as a journalist, and started my research. A company called Love Systems – which would take six men, school them day and night for two months, and see how much they could improve. I quickly caught wind of a social experiment going down that promised to transform men’s lives through self-improvement and the study of dating. Still, there was a question as to whether the techniques these men were talking about would actually work. ![]() When I got home that evening, I Googled “pickup artists.” The man was telling the truth. What’s more, he said, this was quickly becoming a subject taught in informal classrooms throughout North America and Europe. But he then told me he would do it with the aid of scripted routines, the study of female psychology and memorized lists of attributes that, he said, women found attractive. The man, now a banker, told me of the years he spent in a semisecret world of pickup artists, seducing women in North America. I would usually see another man there, in his late 20s, also sitting in the pub and reading a book. I frequently went to the pub after work to read a book, somewhat antisocially. ![]() But this book was inspired by a chance meeting I had at a local pub. TABLE OF CONTENTS Author’s Note -iAcknowledgements -v-ġ Chapter One - Inception 10 Chapter Two - Creaky Foundations 21 Chapter Three - Sex Gods? 30 Chapter Four - Day Game 42 Chapter Five - Man Game 50 Chapter Six - Girl Fever 60 Chapter Seven - First Council 70 Chapter Eight - Loving Love 76 Chapter Nine - BAM! BAM! BAM! 91 Chapter Ten - The Soul Gaze 100 Chapter Eleven - “You are so beautiful” 106 Chapter Twelve - Home Study 112 Chapter Thirteen - The Viking 120 Chapter Fourteen - Pitfalls 123 Chapter Fifteen - Characters 129 Chapter Sixteen - Smile and Loud 137 Chapter Seventeen - Becoming Natural 147 Chapter Eighteen - “Are you ovulating?” 153 Chapter Nineteen - Dead Squirrels and Vibrating Whips 162 Chapter Twenty - The Change 166 Chapter TwentyOne - Epilogue 170 Chapter TwentyTwo - Character IndexĪs a journalist, I have covered elections, wars, recessions and hotbutton issues in dozens of countries for more than 20 years – from Colombia to the Philippines, Afghanistan to the Ivory Coast. ![]()
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