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{{Short description|Speed Seduction instructor; early commercial pickup teacher}} | {{Short description|Speed Seduction instructor; early commercial pickup teacher}} | ||
{{Infobox person | {{Infobox person | ||
| image | | image = Comedy and tragedy masks.svg | ||
| caption | | caption = Masks (Commons). No free portrait; Speed Seduction is the public face. | ||
| alt | | alt = Comedy and tragedy masks | ||
| name | | name = Ross Jeffries | ||
| birth_name | | birth_name = Paul Jeffrey Ross | ||
| other_names | | other_names = Ross Jeffries | ||
| occupation | | occupation = Pickup instructor, author | ||
| years_active | | years_active = 1988– | ||
| known_for | | known_for = [[Speed Seduction]]; [[sarging]]; NLP-pattern pickup | ||
| notable_works = ''How to Get the Women You Desire Into Bed'' (1991) | | notable_works = ''How to Get the Women You Desire Into Bed'' (1991) | ||
| nationality | | nationality = American | ||
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'''Ross Jeffries''' (born Paul Jeffrey Ross, 1958 or 1959) is the American pickup instructor Wikipedia and [[Neil Strauss]] both call a starting point of the modern commercial scene.<ref name="wp">{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Jeffries |title=Ross Jeffries |website=Wikipedia |access-date=11 September 2026}}</ref> Strauss, in ''[[The Game (book)|The Game]]'', describes him as the "godfather" of the community and a mentor figure to [[Mystery (pickup artist)|Mystery]] and himself.<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> | '''Ross Jeffries''' (born Paul Jeffrey Ross, 1958 or 1959) is the American pickup instructor Wikipedia and [[Neil Strauss]] both call a starting point of the modern commercial scene.<ref name="wp">{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Jeffries |title=Ross Jeffries |website=Wikipedia |access-date=11 September 2026}}</ref> Strauss, in ''[[The Game (book)|The Game]]'', describes him as the "godfather" of the community and a mentor figure to [[Mystery (pickup artist)|Mystery]] and himself.<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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== Method == | == Method == | ||
Speed Seduction claims you can lead a woman's imagination with language patterns rather than with a club routine. Later schools mostly dumped the trance-language. Scientific consensus treats NLP as pseudoscience; this | Speed Seduction claims you can lead a woman's imagination with language patterns rather than with a club routine. Later schools mostly dumped the trance-language. Scientific consensus treats NLP as pseudoscience; this encyclopedia records the claim and does not teach hypnosis-for-sex as a method.<ref name="wp-pua">{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_artist |title=Pickup artist |website=Wikipedia |access-date=11 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
[[Lewis DePayne]], then a student of Jeffries, founded [[alt.seduction.fast]] in 1994, which is why the Usenet jargon exists at all. | [[Lewis DePayne]], then a student of Jeffries, founded [[alt.seduction.fast]] in 1994, which is why the Usenet jargon exists at all. | ||
There is a person page and a method page. Technique pages stay with pickup literature, not political blogs. Jeffries is origin, not a method lead. | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
Latest revision as of 09:15, 18 September 2026
 Masks (Commons). No free portrait; Speed Seduction is the public face.
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| Born | Paul Jeffrey Ross
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| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Ross Jeffries |
| Occupation | Pickup instructor, author |
| Years active | 1988– |
| Known for | Speed Seduction; sarging; NLP-pattern pickup
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| Notable work | How to Get the Women You Desire Into Bed (1991)
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Ross Jeffries (born Paul Jeffrey Ross, 1958 or 1959) is the American pickup instructor Wikipedia and Neil Strauss both call a starting point of the modern commercial scene.[1] Strauss, in The Game, describes him as the "godfather" of the community and a mentor figure to Mystery and himself.[2]
From 1988 he taught workshops and a collection of NLP-based techniques branded Speed Seduction. How to Get the Women You Desire Into Bed appeared in 1991.[1] He coined sarging (going out to meet women, from the military "sarge"). He appeared on US talk shows and on Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends (2000). Paul Thomas Anderson has said Tom Cruise's Frank T.J. Mackey in Magnolia (1999) was loosely inspired by Jeffries.[1]
Method
Speed Seduction claims you can lead a woman's imagination with language patterns rather than with a club routine. Later schools mostly dumped the trance-language. Scientific consensus treats NLP as pseudoscience; this encyclopedia records the claim and does not teach hypnosis-for-sex as a method.[3]
Lewis DePayne, then a student of Jeffries, founded alt.seduction.fast in 1994, which is why the Usenet jargon exists at all.
There is a person page and a method page. Technique pages stay with pickup literature, not political blogs. Jeffries is origin, not a method lead.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ross Jeffries. Wikipedia. Retrieved 11 September 2026.
- ↑ Strauss, Neil. The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists. ReganBooks. 2005. ISBN 0-06-055473-8.
- ↑ Pickup artist. Wikipedia. Retrieved 11 September 2026.