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			{{Short description\|2005 Neil Strauss exposé of the pickup-artist scene}}
	{{Infobox book		{{Infobox book
	\| name = The Game		\| name = The Game
	\| author = [[Neil Strauss]]		\| author = [[Neil Strauss]]
	\| year = 2005		\| year = 2005
	\| publisher = ReganBooks		\| publisher = ReganBooks
	\| subject = Pickup-artist subculture		\| subject = Pickup-artist subculture
			\| isbn = 0-06-055473-8
	}}		}}
	'''''The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists''''' (2005) is the book that made the [[seduction community]] a public story. Strauss writes as "Style," student of [[Mystery (pickup artist)\|Mystery]]. It is the source civilians mean when they say "PUA."		'''''The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists''''' (2005) is the book that made the [[seduction community]] a public story. Strauss writes as "Style," student of [[Mystery (pickup artist)\|Mystery]]. It is the source civilians mean when they say "PUA."<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><ref name="nyt">{{cite news \|last=Strauss \|first=Neil \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/style/he-aims-he-shoots-yes.html \|title=He Aims! He Shoots! Yes!! \|newspaper=The New York Times \|date=25 January 2004 \|access-date=11 September 2026}}</ref>

	Use it as history and ethnography. Do not use it as a 2020s how-to; the club-routine layer is dated, the anxiety and social-proof observations are not.		Use it as history and ethnography. Do not use it as a 2020s how-to; the club-routine layer is dated, the anxiety and social-proof observations are not.
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	* [[Peacocking]]		* [[Peacocking]]
	* [[Negging]]		* [[Negging]]
			* [[Project Hollywood]]
			* [[Owen Cook]]
			* [[List of pickup books]]

			== References ==
			{{Reflist}}

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

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{{Infobox book
| name = The Game
| author = [[Neil Strauss]]
| year = 2005
| publisher = ReganBooks
| subject = Pickup-artist subculture
}}
'''''The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists''''' (2005) is the book that made the [[seduction community]] a public story. Strauss writes as "Style," student of [[Mystery (pickup artist)|Mystery]]. It is the source civilians mean when they say "PUA."

Use it as history and ethnography. Do not use it as a 2020s how-to; the club-routine layer is dated, the anxiety and social-proof observations are not.

== See also ==
* [[Mystery Method]]
* [[Pickup artist]]
* [[Peacocking]]
* [[Negging]]

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