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Seduction Wiki is an encyclopedia of pickup, seduction, dating skill, and romantic life. Pickup literature of several schools is in-scope as history and contrast. The field is one thing: how people meet, attract, choose, and keep each other.

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A pickup artist (PUA) is a person who treats meeting and attracting partners as a trainable skill. The English-language seduction community of the late 1990s and 2000s — Mystery's club method and Neil Strauss's 2005 book The Game — made the label public. The word is used three ways: self-description, industry, and insult. History runs from Ellis and Weber through Jeffries and alt.seduction.fast to a post-2007 split: routine club game, inner-game brands, daygame, and fundamentals plus logistics. Schools disagree on openers; they still agree that approach anxiety is trained by volume, calibration beats a script, and a no ends the beat. (Full article...)

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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
• Congruence
• Assume attraction

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

A common on-ramp in the seduction community:

1. Get the body in the world: 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: attraction as trainable fundamentals plus logistics plus direct game; London daygame; routine club game; and inner-game brands. Articles are rewritten encyclopedia pages, not a forum dump.

Sister projects

• looksmaxxing.wiki — appearance, physique, facial aesthetics. Separate encyclopedia, same publisher.
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How this wiki is written

Neutral encyclopedia voice. 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.