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	The '''Mystery Method''' ('''MM''') is a stepwise model of club pickup published by [[Mystery (pickup artist)\|Erik von Markovik]] and popularized by [[Neil Strauss]]'s ''[[The Game (book)\|The Game]]''. It is the source of a large fraction of still-living [[pickup artist]] jargon: [[DHV]], [[IOI]], [[negging]], [[peacocking]], [[kino]], [[set (pickup)\|set]], [[A3]] ~~qualification~~.		The '''Mystery Method''' ('''MM''') is a stepwise model of club pickup published by [[Mystery (pickup artist)\|Erik von Markovik]] and popularized by [[Neil Strauss]]'s ''[[The Game (book)\|The Game]]''. It is the source of a large fraction of still-living [[pickup artist]] jargon: [[DHV]], [[IOI]], [[negging]], [[peacocking]], [[kino]], [[set (pickup)\|set]], [[Qualification (pickup)\|A3 qualification]].<ref name="mm">{{cite book \|last=von Markovik \|first=Erik \|title=The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed \|publisher=St. Martin's Press \|year=2007 \|isbn=978-0-312-36011-5}}</ref><ref name="game">{{cite book \|last=Strauss \|first=Neil \|title=The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists \|publisher=ReganBooks \|year=2005 \|isbn=0-06-055473-8}}</ref>

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	== ~~Sources~~ ==		== References ==
	* Erik von Markovik, ''The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed'' (St. Martin's, 2007).		{{Reflist}}
	* Neil Strauss, ''The Game'' (2005).
	* PUA Lingo entries for DHV, IOI, BHRR, neg, MM (Vince Lin; Common Crawl 2014 captures in the Wingman corpus).

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{{Infobox term
| name = Mystery Method
| also = MM, Venusian Arts
| field = Pickup
| coined = [[Mystery (pickup artist)|Erik von Markovik]]
| origin = late 1990s–2007
}}
The '''Mystery Method''' ('''MM''') is a stepwise model of club pickup published by [[Mystery (pickup artist)|Erik von Markovik]] and popularized by [[Neil Strauss]]'s ''[[The Game (book)|The Game]]''. It is the source of a large fraction of still-living [[pickup artist]] jargon: [[DHV]], [[IOI]], [[negging]], [[peacocking]], [[kino]], [[set (pickup)|set]], [[A3]] qualification.

== Structure ==
Mystery split an interaction into three phases, each with three steps:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Phase !! Steps !! Job
|-
| '''Attraction''' || A1 open the [[set (pickup)|set]]; A2 female-to-male interest; A3 [[Qualification (pickup)|qualification]] || Stop being a random male; become a man she might chase
|-
| '''Comfort''' || C1 conversation; C2 connection; C3 intimacy || Make the attraction survivable in daylight
|-
| '''Seduction''' || S1 foreplay; S2 last-minute resistance; S3 sex || Logistics and escalation
|}

The practical claim: most beginners try to start at comfort (nice conversation, no spark) or jump to seduction (kino with no comfort) and lose. MM forces attraction first.

== Characteristic tools ==
* '''[[Peacocking]]''' — visible, commentable style so the room opens you.
* '''[[Negging]]''' — a small status nick, not an insult, aimed at women who are bored of compliments.
* '''[[DHV]] stories''' — pre-selection, leadership, social proof, rather than money lists.
* '''[[False time constraint]]''' — "I can only stay a minute," to lower the perceived cost of the open.
* '''[[Bait, hook, reel, release]]''' — she invests; you reward; you pull back; she invests more.
* '''3 [[IOI]]s then kiss''' — a calibration rule of thumb, not a law.

== Afterlife ==
Later schools kept the diagnostics (IOI/IOD, DHV/DLV, kino ladder) and threw out the top hat. [[Chase Amante]]'s [[Attractiveness fundamentals]] are explicitly ''not'' MM "game": they are the passive layer MM mostly assumed. [[Daygame]] kept direct intent and dumped club routines. The method still matters because the lexicon does.

== See also ==
* [[Mystery (pickup artist)]]
* [[The Game (book)]]
* [[Demonstration of higher value]]
* [[Indicator of interest]]

== Sources ==
* Erik von Markovik, ''The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed'' (St. Martin's, 2007).
* Neil Strauss, ''The Game'' (2005).
* PUA Lingo entries for DHV, IOI, BHRR, neg, MM (Vince Lin; Common Crawl 2014 captures in the Wingman corpus).

[[Category:Pickup]]
[[Category:Techniques]]
[[Category:History of pickup]]
[[Category:Books]]