Category Archives: Dating

An Orthodox View Of Love

Jewish Standard: Both Ms. Brown’s books are written in a child’s voice — a smart, self-aware, limit-testing, often obnoxious little girl, self-centered as happy children often are, secure in her parents’ love and her place in the world. “Hush,” published … Continue reading

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On Tinder, Off Sex

Ali Rachel Pearl writes for the New York Times: My friends don’t seem to understand my secondary abstinence. They ask if I’ve had sex yet. “How can you go so long?” they ask. “I can’t imagine.” They say: “You have … Continue reading

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Slate: A Conversation With Neil Strauss: “I look back on The Game and cringe.”

By Christina Cauterucci: Critics of The Game have waited a decade for Neil Strauss to issue a mea culpa. Plenty of readers saw his 2005 embedded investigation of the pickup-artist industry as an instruction manual on how to cajole beautiful … Continue reading

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Grantland: ‘Game’ Met Match: Pick-up Artist Godhead Neil Strauss’s Subtle, Surprising New Book

Steve Sailer wrote in 2009: The most heartfelt articles by female journalists tend to be demands that social values be overturned in order that, Come the Revolution, the journalist herself will be considered hotter-looking. Technically, it might seem highly possible … Continue reading

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WP: 10 years ago, Neil Strauss was a pickup artist. Now he’s a committed husband.

I notice that the plainer the woman, the more threatened she is by game. On the other hand, hot chicks seem stimulated and intrigued by it. I’ve never met a woman who was an 8 or higher who hated game. … Continue reading

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