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Revision as of 08:11, 18 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.