As if romance wasn't already challenging enough, a whole new deceit has been added to the modern day dating mix. Hapless straight male users of sites like Tinder and OKCupid can enlist the help of Personal Dating Assistants, an online service that assigns users a dating "consultant" who, rather than actually consult,…
Time is a flat circle. Specifically, it is a flattened beer can crushed against a 30-something man's head in triumph after its golden liquid had been vigorously imbibed as part of the U.S.'s annual Spring Break celebrations — a celebration he will never leave.
David Graff & Ray Schwartz's The Rules for Getting Laid promises that you can "Get the sex you want!" and also, "Feminist women and men will try to ban or burn this book!" so you know we had to check it out. I mean, burning books and bras are our top #1 favorite hobbies after cooking with our placentas and not…
The goal of the Anti-Pickup-Artist Movement, as stated on its highly official title page, is to reveal "the scams, deception, and misleading marketing techniques used by dating gurus and the seduction community to deceive men and profit from them." Here, you'll find the sad, scary, skeezy world of men who have turned…
Plenty of people have called pickup artists creepy, but few have embarked on a full theoretical analysis of their creepitude. Now, a communications researcher does just that. Herewith, her breakdown of how Mystery twists evolutionary psychology to his own coercive ends.
Maybe you've heard a line like this at a party or in a bar, from a man to a woman he barely knows: "You have a pretty face, but you'd be even prettier if you'd lose the bangs."
Elizabeth Haag used to work for a pickup artist. After we wrote about female pickup artists (or the lack thereof), she contacted us to tell her story of misogyny, sex in bathroom stalls — and a growing sympathy for men.
It's been tried before, but why has female pickup artistry never caught on? Recently, a group of San Francisco women found out.
Seduction guru and alleged sexual assaulter/weapons stockpiler Dimitri the Lover (aka James Sears) is apparently returning to the spotlight, with a movie produced by one of the men behind Borat and Bruno.
Nerve's Caitlin MacRae decided to find out what happens when a woman uses the pickup-artistry techniques "pioneered" by guys like Neil Strauss and Mystery. The results: not good.
Would legalizing sex work have prevented George Sodini's gym rampage? That's the claim Dan Savage makes in his column this week.
A number of readers have written us about the charming, virile blogger Roissy and his guide to identifying sluts.
