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Seduction Wiki is an encyclopedia of pickup, seduction, dating skill, and romantic life. Its gold standard is Later pickup: later pickup writing (editorial) and Skilled Seducer (forum). Other pickup literature is in-scope as history and contrast. The field is one thing: how people meet, attract, choose, and keep each other.

This is a live MediaWiki. Pages are written for curious readers. Pickup artist jargon is in-scope on purpose. Sister project: looksmaxxing.wiki (appearance). Product behind the encyclopedia: wingman.live.

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Pickup	Skill	Romance	Reference
Pickup artist Seduction community Mystery Method The Game Daygame Nightgame Cold approach Anime convention	Attractiveness fundamentals Approach Logistics Newbie assignment Calibration Frame Game	One-itis Attachment styles Situationship The talk No contact Friends with benefits Dread game	Glossary PUA terms Dating slang People Books Point of view Copyrights

Core lexicon

• Negging
• Peacocking
• Indicator of interest
• Demonstration of higher value
• Kino
• Shit test
• Push-pull
• Calibration
• Qualification
• Disqualification
• Agree and amplify
• Hoop theory
• Cat string theory
• Approach anxiety
• Abundance mentality
• Spinning plates
• Teasing
• Cocky funny
• Closing
• Instant date
• Day 2
• Preselection
• State
• Outcome independence

People, books, iceberg

• List of pickup artists
• List of pickup books
• Dating iceberg
• Mystery
• Neil Strauss
• Ross Jeffries
• Owen Cook
• Julien Blanc
• Real Social Dynamics
• Tom Torero
• Mark Manson
• The Pickup Artist (TV series)

Start here

The seduction community's usual on-ramp, from Chase Amante's later pickup writing / Skilled Seducer school, is:

1. Get the body in the world: Newbie assignment (observation, posture, eye contact, then talking to strangers).
2. Raise passive attraction: Attractiveness fundamentals (body, voice, social, fashion) as distinct from active game.
3. Learn to read the room: Indicator of interest, Calibration, frame.
4. Kill scarcity: One-itis, Abundance mentality, Outcome independence.

History in one paragraph

Late-1990s alt.seduction.fast and Mystery's club method produced a jargon (DHV, IOI, negging, peacocking). Neil Strauss's 2005 book The Game made that scene public. After 2010 the center of gravity split. This wiki's house line is Girls attraction as trainable fundamentals plus logistics plus direct game, practiced on Skilled Seducer. London daygame, routine club game, and inner-game brands are covered as other schools. Articles are rewritten encyclopedia pages, not a forum dump.

Sister projects

• looksmaxxing.wiki — appearance, physique, facial aesthetics. Separate encyclopedia, same publisher.
• wingman.live — AI dating coach that uses this field as coaching knowledge.

How this wiki is written

later pickup writing / Skilled Seducer set the lead. See Seduction Wiki:Point of view, Seduction Wiki:Method, and Seduction Wiki:Copyrights. Third-party forums and blogs are cited and paraphrased. They are not pasted wholesale.