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{{Short description|2005 Neil Strauss exposé of the pickup-artist scene}}
{{Infobox book
| image = 2007-04 Best seller III.JPG
| caption = ''The Game'' on a bestseller table (Commons).
| alt = The Game on a bookstore table
| name = The Game
| author = [[Neil Strauss]]
| year = 2005
| publisher = ReganBooks
| 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."<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.
== See also ==
* [[Mystery Method]]
* [[Pickup artist]]
* [[Peacocking]]
* [[Negging]]
* [[Project Hollywood]]
* [[Owen Cook]]
* [[List of pickup books]]
* [[Demonstration of higher value]]
* [[Set (pickup)]]
* [[Kino]]
* [[Qualification (pickup)]]
* [[False time constraint]]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Books]]
[[Category:History of pickup]]

Latest revision as of 01:02, 19 September 2026

The Game
The Game on a bookstore table
The Game on a bestseller table (Commons).
Author Neil Strauss
Subject Pickup-artist subculture
Publisher ReganBooks
Publication date 2005
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. It is the source civilians mean when they say "PUA."[1][2]

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

References

  1. ↑ Strauss, Neil. The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists. ReganBooks. 2005. ISBN 0-06-055473-8. 
  2. ↑ Strauss, Neil. He Aims! He Shoots! Yes!!. The New York Times. 25 January 2004. Retrieved 11 September 2026.