April 30, 2007

Negs And Closers And Pick-Up Artists, Oh My!

If you remember way... actually, wait, there's no way you're going to remember. So way back when this blog wasn't even a month old (and was even worse than it is now), September 2005, Metro entertainment editor Dorothy Robinson interviewed Neil Strauss, who wrote The Game.

I sorta called bullshit on it at the time, because it used terms like "sarge" to talk about picking up women. Later, I actually read his book -- I had a free copy, I swear -- and apparently all these things were true. Strauss figured out how to get any woman he wanted and was dating the guitarist from Hole or something by the end of the book. (Who knew?)

Naturally, suddenly -- and by "suddenly," I mean "a year and a half ago" -- "pick-up artists" are the hottest rage around, and so today the Inquirer's Faye Flam writes about the new book by The Game's sidekick character, Mystery, with the definitely non-sexist title of The Mystery Method: The Foolproof Way To Get Any Woman You Want Into Bed. (Or maybe The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed, as an Inquirer photo shows. Apparently this book is so amazing it has two different titles.)

Students pay $2,150 for a three-day seminar taught by one of Mystery's disciples, which is way more expensive than Match.com. Apparently, getting a girl includes such tips as having good body language, telling girls they suck (in a friendly way) and coming up with some sort of stupid story to tell a girl so she immediately takes your pants off. Or, y'know, something like that.

Flam talks about research -- this is the Inquirer, after all -- on similar subjects by scientists, including one who says playing hard to get activates dopamine circuits -- also activated by, say, cocaine -- in the brain on the person who's been rejected. Wow! I didn't know I was a cokehead!

But this article is only the beginning (I hope).

This story got even more interesting when I met Mystery himself. Maybe I'll write about that in my next column. I'd give it about 50-50 odds.

Oh, playing hard to get, eh, Flam? Just write the damn article before I overdose.

Carnal Knowledge | Play hard to get, single guys [Inquirer]
Sept. 29, 2005: Also, "sarge" means "to pick up women." I call bullshit.
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Posted by D-Mac on April 30, 2007 12:30 PM
Posted to $2,150 , Dating , Faye Flam , Inquirer , Pick-Up Artists

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