Hey Zac-
The first thing I ever read on PUA was Swinggcat's
Real World Seduction back in late 2005. That was pretty influential on a greenhorn me who was still struggling his way through cold approach (without knowing that term for it). I don't know how much of it would be anything new for a guy familiar with the stuff on this site, but in 2005 I was certainly not familiar with most of the stuff that's on this site right now.
There's a list of zipped archives from a number of old posters on mASF here:
ASF PDF/Zip Archives, dating from the late '90s to 2008 or so. Zan's archive was something I read and loved in 2006, and his
Way of the Natural DVD series really evolved my thinking then. His website is still online at
ZanPerrion.com. When last we talked, he was just wrapping up his book on a return from Central America, but so far as I can tell he still has not released it.
My primary mentor from PUA, Sebastian Drake, is no longer involved in the seduction community, and has more or less erased his "paper trail"... his old website (and my first job in PUA),
theApproach.com, is mostly blank, and his old post archive was removed from Fast Seduction at his request. He had a wonderful, really mindblowing book on advanced seduction that he'd completed penning and planned to release, but eventually shelved... I've refrained from discussing any of the concepts from it publicly per his request, since he hasn't published it yet, but I wonder now if he ever will. I originally credited him in
How to Make Girls Chase for a number of concepts he introduced, but he later asked that his name be removed.
In that zipped archives page, there's a guy named A2daMIR who has some of the most incredible, educational lay reports you will ever read. His style, and some of the details he fleshed out for me over email, was a large part of what I used to put together the concept of chase framing. He was briefly on the original Girls Chase forum, but he's a guy who needs a lot of love, and there weren't many people on there. At some point, I'd really like to invite him to stop by the new boards if it gets busy enough, or see if he'd have any interest in writing for the main site, but we haven't talked in a few years and for all I know he's lost interest in the world of seduction online.
There's another guy in the archives named Lifeguard who used to post some really insightful stuff, and a lot of crazily inspired lay reports. Used to have a site of his own, but long since closed down, I believe.
Most of the rest of my influences were guys I met along the way who weren't associated with PUA but were just really good at meeting girls wherever they were and ending up in bed with them.
Chase
