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A '''[[pickup artist]]''' ('''PUA''') is a person who treats meeting and attracting partners as a trainable skill. The English-language [[seduction community]] of the late 1990s and 2000s — [[Mystery (pickup artist)|Mystery]]'s club method and [[Neil Strauss]]'s 2005 book ''[[The Game (book)|The Game]]'' — made the label public. The word is used three ways: self-description, industry, and insult. History runs from Ellis and Weber through Jeffries and [[alt.seduction.fast]] to a post-2007 split: routine club game, inner-game brands, [[daygame]], and fundamentals plus logistics. Schools disagree on openers; they still agree that [[approach anxiety]] is trained by volume, [[calibration]] beats a script, and a no ends the beat.
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