Seduction community
| Field | Subculture |
|---|---|
| Also known as | pickup community, the community, the scene
|
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.
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: Girls Chase (2008–) is this wiki's gold-standard editorial. Roosh, Krauser, Torero, Heartiste appear as other schools (Heartiste only when the dating claim is the point).
- Forum of record for this encyclopedia: Skilled Seducer (XenForo).
Wingman's coaching corpus already holds large public scrapes of those surfaces (Skilled Seducer ~10k threads locally; RooshV Forum, SoSuave, Girls Chase editorial, Krauser, PUA Lingo). This wiki uses Girls Chase / Skilled Seducer as doctrine and the rest as history, rewritten. See Seduction Wiki:Point of view.
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.