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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by Animats on Friday June 12, 2020 @04:14PM (#23503384)
It's not hard. The whole "pick-up artist" thing did work. The classic book, by the way, is "Scoremanship", by Frank Grey. He was a salesman who'd had formal sales training, and realized that standard sales techniques could be repurposed for dating. That's less silly than the later stuff like "The Game".
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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by mettamage on Friday June 12, 2020 @04:23PM (#23503493)
I found it hard, but in all fairness, I haven't used sales tactics that much.

I also didn't do The Game or The Mystery Method. I basically took another dating book's question "how can you find the women of your dreams with just your personality?" and took that as far as I could.

Long story short (for me personally): use assortative mating theory to its fullest and most extreme.

With that said, I have met other people who found it easy. It's definitely not an uncommon experience.

Thanks for the book recommendation! That looks like such an old book (1969!), I'll take a peek.

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