S. Pryor said:
Used car salesmen being the "pickup gurus" out there. There's just so many guys out there and basically they're all peddling the same garbage. I mean you can find some use in it but for the most part it all gets pretty repetitive. "Tap her on the shoulder, lean back with a 62 foot long handkercheif hanging from your pocket with a boa constrictor wrapped around your neck. Tell her stories of how you fought off an elephant with only a q-tip and a box of apple jacks to show you're dominant and can tell a great story." And oh yeah ask her if she thinks Steven Tyler looked hot while he was having his imaginary fight with Simon Cowell outside. COME ON! They're SALESMEN plain and simple. And damn good ones because I know they've gotten millions off the guys on this board alone. For those of you out there that know the catalog of these guys A-Z: please tell me who you've found that changed your life.
By in large - you are correct. A lot of these guys come from sales backgrounds even AND implement that into pickup (which can work). But 90% of it is just the same old recycled garbage! I've read..... 50-60 seduction books.... and after a while - nothing they say is news to me... it's the same old words and the same old chapters (some dress them up in different language but it's the same theory).... only a couple stand out to me.... i would say - changed my life...
Franco "Manual of Seduction" Although the name implies it's about seduction - that's kind of misleading. This book is about A LOT more than that. Mostly relationship management stuff. Franco is a legendry relationship expert over at FS. With about 12,000 posts - all of them - very detailed. He's an old time player. Italian (from Italy, lives in Finland), natural, world traveled, high status, and here's the important part -
a clinical psychologist. He says he found the seduction community around 45 years old and was facinated that other people who weren't psychologists were so into theories which were largely based in psychology.... I've never read anyone more in touch with how to dominate women in relationships!
Franco, David Clare, Joseph W South "Practical Female Psychology for the Practical Man" I already talked about Franco. And Joseph W. South is his Canadian couterpart (only he has pretty much given up on the community after buying a club). His podcast still sits over at
http://www.realmodernman.com/ but no new shows in a while. He's much more blunt and impatient with male beta like behavior than Franco. He's much more aggresive too. But still very intelligent when it comes to dealing with relationships.
Daniel Rose "The Sex God Method" Many here know of this book, so i don't need to go into it much. But when you give a women 30 screaming orgasms and fvck her until she literally passes out the minute you finish - the drama and sh!t tests and EVERYTHING goes out the window.
^ that's pretty much it. Out of 60 or so books i've read - those have been the only 3 that REALLY changed my life.