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A '''pickup artist''' or '''P.U.A''' is a scammer whom claims to help incels get positive [[IOI]]s through social manipulation ("[[game]]"). Funnily enough, this is the same approach to incels taken by [[CBT|psychologists]], [[feminism|psychiatrists]], and [[feminists]]. As well as virtually everyone else nowadays despite them falsly claiming to hate PUA type advice.  The idea that one can dramatically change ones own personal life in modern America while mostly ignoring fundamental life issues (like ugliness, or poverty) is also an underlying principle of [[cognitive behavioral therapy]], the most widely practiced professional therapy mode in the US which has failed to slow down the increase in suicides.

A P.U.A would scam an Asian [[manlet]] into believing that their low sexual market value lies in being too submissive, rather than being short and Asian.

The modern P.U.A movement started in the 1970s with the rise of hook up culture after the [[sexual revolution]] in modern western countries. Now it is more common for men to play the field and seek out casual sexual encounters before marriage. Due to the existence of female [[hypergamy]] and [[Bateman's Principle]], many men that are not physically blessed are having poor prospects of casual sex encounters and thus a market niche was formed catering to their desire to improve their prospects. From the 1960's to the 1980's there were a small amount of, become a playboy, type pick up artist guides.

One of the first mainstream P.U.As was [[Ross Jeffries]] whom in the 1990's advocated [[N.L.P]] (neuro-linguistic programming) to attract women, which is the technique of influencing female attraction by use of subliminal phrases in conversations.

The modern incarnation of P.U.A was engineered by an internet marketer by the name of Eben Pagan ([[David de Angelo]]) a member of an internet marketing group known as The Syndicate and author of the P.U.A manual Double your Dating, which claims the bold faced lie that looks don't matter at all to women (actually the complete opposite) and any A.F.C (Average Frustrated Chump) whom applies P.U.A techniques will be able to become a [[slayer]]. (Which is also a lie [[Game|Game,]] alone cannot make up for bad [[Beauty|looks]].<ref>https://omegavirginrevolt.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/the-syndicate-the-internet-marketing-scam-organization-behind-game/</ref>

P.U.A remained a niche community until the release of the book The [[Game]] by journalist [[Neil Strauss]], a semi autobiographical work describing, induction into a P.U.A circle led by the most famous P.U.A, The street magician and reality TV star Mystery.  

The success of The [[Game]] resulted in a P.U.A craze in the mid nineties that lasted until the early 2010s.  

Mystery had combined the teachings of get-rich quick marketer David De Angelo with evolutionary psychology to create a unique style of P.U.A creatively dubbed The Mystery Method.

[[R. Don Steele]] is a baby [[boomer]] P.U.A dating coach whom developed three techniques to supposedly improve client success with women. The three steps basically boil down to a, firm handshake, good posture, and sexual intent as the principles to getting women. The incel mass shooter, [[George Sodini]], attended several of his seminars.

It is argued that P.U.A communities combined with the internet are ultimately responsible for the rise of the Manosphere in general

[[RooshV]] is a blogger and former sex tourist who was a highly influential figure in the manosphere and [[game]] community.

After originally coming to prominence in the 2000's as a P.U.A blogger, the man wrote various books<ref>https://www.rooshvstore.com/all-books/?utm_medium=menu&utm_campaign=organic&utm_source=rv</ref> which detailed apparent sexual conquests in foreign countries and, advised methods of picking up women. Like many manosphere writers, the writing became increasingly political and closer to [[alt-right]] viewpoints in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential elections.

After becoming a born-again Oriental Orthodox Christian, Roosh denounced previous writings, and forbade discussion of casual sex on a private forum.

[[Chateau Heartiste|Roissy]] was the sobriquet used by the author of the (now defunct) blog Chateau Heartiste, which was a blog that promoted pick-up artistry (under the name of [[game]]), anti feminist writings, and also increasingly white nationalism, especially during the run up to the 2016 presidential election.

The first website where what we now know as the Blackpill was widely expoused was the forum [[PSL|puahate.com]], whos original purpose was to expose the lies and scams of the P.U.A industry, eventually morphing into a manosphere forum where a major theme emerged of women being primarily attracted to a man's [[LMS]] (looks, money,status) in other words objective value to women in opposition to more vague concepts like [[personality]] and [[game]]. Contrary to what some media says, the website, however, was not an incel forum, as there were people of every celibacy status there and there were no subforums on it that self-identified as incel subforums.

Given the advent of the #metoo movement and the rise of online dating, the PUA industry is increasingly moribund, but still somewhat influential.

Pick up artists often sell useless bootcamps, scamming hopeful incels out of thousands of dollars and putting them at risk of macing, arrest, and harassment allegations.  The first popular P.U.A book was written by [[Ross Jeffries]] and is called [[How to Get the Women You Desire into Bed]]..  There is a [[disclaimer]] on the first few pages warning that the contents could easily get one arrested if acted out fully. P.U.A [[Julien Blanc]] caused mass outrage among feminists online when videos of the guy choking random women during cold approaches went viral.

Many P.U.A's also used to advocated more hardcore techniques to break past what they called last minute resistance (a woman backing out of prospective sexual intercourse at the last minute, because the man in question is not as good looking as the woman would prefer.) Like man-handling the woman or exposing one's self, in other words committing acts of legally defined sexual assault. The rise in P.U.A seems to accompany [[feminism|the rise of people not wanting to pair other people up]].

==Does game work?==

Put two pick-up artists with equal fame and money with normal [[social skills]] in a bar. Then approach an equal number of women, and the better looking guy will get the girl.

P.U.A's (and [[feminists]]) think men pick up women through [[social skills]] almost exclusively.

Self-identified incels (and others) instead advocate [[LMS|L.M.S]]  

Self-identified incels usually stress looks as the most important (which is correct).  The P.U.A (and therapy) industry is dependent on trying to make people think they can cheat lookism.