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I also disagree here. I've met dozens of men in the seduction community and none of them dared to call themselves a PUA, not even those that were sleeping with several attractive women every week. A PUA is, as the name says, an artist, and you have to be really good at something before you can be
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This article requires a complete rewrite to de-emphasize the recent commercialisation of trashy pick-up courses peddled by shallow, self-described authorities on seduction when, of course, seduction is as old as humanity and these commercial johnny-come-latelies intend nothing more than to con
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I mean there shouldn't be any reference to sexual orientation. it is pretty obvious it's mostly straight guys trying to seduce women, but there are some gay guys that use this to try to seduce men. There are also women in the community who use it to try to seduce men as well.
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Women don't really need to TRY and pick up men. Atleast when it coems to sexual encounters. A simple "Hey, let's have sex" will suffice. No skill sets needed, no routines or psychological elements come into play. With men (picking up women) it's a lot more complicated.
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Given that "artist" is exactly a noun, for me it sounds natural that "pickup artist" is also a noun, name or nickname, pretty much like "Casanova", "Don Juan", and the likes. This, of course, in addition to the attributive usage that happens very commonly in
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Please refrain from delete rage. The things in the article are true. I know them from direct experience an watching much of those courses. But it is a bit hard to find all the proper references. What we need are:
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and I imagine that to expand this article sources similar to that article will need to be used, so hence I propose we merge this article into
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