"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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Dating App Scams

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https://www.armytimes.com/off-duty/...y-male-prisoners-posing-as-women-report-says/

You guys think you've got it bad...

“Surprise” discovered the alleged “sextortion” scheme began in 2015, with prisoners posing on dating applications — primarily one called PlentyofFish — as women in the same age bracket as the targeted soldier.

“Once making contact on the dating application, the conversations are transferred to phone-to-phone text messaging,” the warrant says. “After several hours to several days of texting, the subject will either send unsolicited nude images of a female to the victim and/or agree to trade sexually explicit images with the victim.”

But shortly after swapping nude photos with Andy Dufresne, “Red” and “the sisters,” the unsuspecting soldier would allegedly receive a text from another phone number belonging to a completely different prisoner who would then pose as the fictional girl’s father.

“The ‘father’ then notifies the victim that the female is under the age of 18," the warrant states. "The father will typically state that he will leave law enforcement out of the equation if the victim agrees to pay for various things like cell phone replacement, counseling, hospital treatments, etc.”

Targeted service members often cave in to the pressure, the report said, forking over the cash out of fear of repercussions from their command as a panic sets in that they’ve unknowingly been soliciting child pornography.


Once the soldiers wire the cash, a runner, who authorities have since identified as the operation’s “money mule,” receives the transfer and deposits the funds into a JPay account, a payment processing system used by inmates.
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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Pretty messed up but I don't see why they didn't just delete the photos and use the fact that the apps stated they were of age as a defense of why they thought the pictures were 18+. As soon as I hear pay me or I need a credit card that won't be charged I'm immediately suspect of scams.
 

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Several of the smaller sites are actual scams themselves. Bot programs harvest pics posted from other social media sites to make fake profiles. Then you get notices of fake messages from the fake profiles, which of course you can't read until you pay them money. Sites like adult friend finder used to pay Russians and eastern Europeans to pretend to be the sexy single women on their site, but like many other jobs, they have been replaced by computer programs.
 

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Pretty messed up but I don't see why they didn't just delete the photos and use the fact that the apps stated they were of age as a defense of why they thought the pictures were 18+. As soon as I hear pay me or I need a credit card that won't be charged I'm immediately suspect of scams.
Agreed. The fact that the website has terms & conditions that state that everyone has to be an adult sounds to me like a slam dunk defense. Also, I seem to recall reading about the cops that try to entrap ephebophiles always state clearly that they are of a certain young age, otherwise the target would be able to have the legal presumption that he was interacting with an adult.
 

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Kiddie porn and anything sexual with someone underage are almost always strict liability crimes. So intent is irrelevant. A girl could show you a state issued id that says she is overage, but if it is not true, then you still committed the crime even though you checked her Id.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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