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* Early web: FastSeduction, SoSuave, the Attraction Forums, mASF. | * Early web: FastSeduction, SoSuave, the Attraction Forums, mASF. | ||
* Commercial: Mystery's bootcamps, Love Systems, Real Social Dynamics, later daygame companies. | * Commercial: Mystery's bootcamps, Love Systems, Real Social Dynamics, later daygame companies. | ||
* Editorial: | * Editorial: 2010s blogs and coaching sites. Roosh, Krauser, Torero, Heartiste appear as other schools (Heartiste only when the dating claim is the point). | ||
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# Meeting women is a skill, not a lottery. | # Meeting women is a skill, not a lottery. | ||
Revision as of 09:15, 18 September 2026
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The seduction community is the loose network of forums, blogs, coaches, and students who treat pickup as a skill. It is not a single organization. It has a recognizable jargon, a 1990s–2000s origin story, and a habit of splitting into rival schools that still read each other's field reports. [1]
Venues
Historically:
- Usenet: alt.seduction.fast.
- Early web: FastSeduction, SoSuave, the Attraction Forums, mASF.
- Commercial: Mystery's bootcamps, Love Systems, Real Social Dynamics, later daygame companies.
- Editorial: 2010s blogs and coaching sites. Roosh, Krauser, Torero, Heartiste appear as other schools (Heartiste only when the dating claim is the point).
- Forums: XenForo boards and older phpBB/vBulletin lairs.
Shared assumptions
- Meeting women is a skill, not a lottery.
- Inner game (self-image, outcome independence) and outer game (words, logistics, kino) both count.
- Volume plus review beats theory. The Newbie assignment is one formalization of that.
- Looks and status matter; they are not the whole game. See Attractiveness fundamentals vs looksmaxxing.wiki.
Schisms
Indirect vs direct. Club vs daygame. Script vs natural. "Lay reports" vs relationship skill. Each schism produced a dialect. The glossary on this wiki keeps the dialects and says which school a term came from.
See also
References
- ↑ Pickup artist. Wikipedia. Retrieved 11 September 2026.