{"id":76682,"date":"2015-10-11T10:45:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T18:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76682"},"modified":"2015-10-11T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T18:46:08","slug":"swallowing-the-red-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76682","title":{"rendered":"Swallowing The Red Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our conversation was stimulated by this <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TheRedPill\/comments\/3o9bsr\/neil_strauss_author_of_the_game_prostrates\/\">thread<\/a> on Reddit&#8217;s Red Pill.<\/p>\n<p>Friend: &#8220;I can&#8217;t quite &#8220;buy&#8221; the redpill stuff cuz I don&#8217;t see how it creates a future where women rediscover the virtue and value of chastity and modesty&#8230;   It seems like a race to the bottom (pun intended?).  I mean I can see that negging some hot girl in a bar might have get me laid, but if I have no plans to marry her, haven&#8217;t I just ruined her kinda?  Isn&#8217;t there some moral entanglement here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: Red pill means that the ideal number of sex partners a woman has before marriage is zero. More than ten and she&#8217;s a bad bet. Yes, you <A HREF=\"https:\/\/heartiste.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/09\/leaving-her-better-than-you-found-her-not-likely\/\">never leave a woman better by ****ing her outside of marriage<\/a>. Women rightly regard everything that doesn&#8217;t lead to marriage as a waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our conversation was stimulated by this thread on Reddit&#8217;s Red Pill. 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