There's been some confusion on here recently, with readers noting some contrasts between my normal recommendations to guys, and what some of the other writers here report doing in some of their articles.
The biggest one is kissing girls in public - especially, kissing girls in bars, and kissing girls in clubs.
I gave somewhat of a blanket denouncement about ever kissing girls in public in "How to Kiss a Girl Like No One's Ever Kissed Her Before". If we want to be totally 100% technically correct, there are always exceptions, and this rule's one that - provided you meet certain requirements already - you can still get around.
Kissing a girl publicly is a tactic that can be powerful if used appropriately, but is devastating to your odds at getting a girl back somewhere alone with you for intimacy. In my strong opinion, it's much better to avoid this altogether, and simply maintain sexual tension, until you are home alone with a girl, and can quickly move from kissing to sex - the natural progression of things. Kissing is something that increases the randomness of your interactions, and polarizes them - it'll shift some women into overdrive, but will drive many more into auto-rejection or overprovides good feelings.
My general recommendation to guys that are learning is just "don't do this at all, unless you're pushing boundaries and really just want to see if you can do it and test yourself."
However... if you are suitably advanced, confident with women, and know what you are doing (e.g., not kissing for the sake of kissing, but kissing as part of a larger overall strategy)... you can indeed take the exception here, and not only not deflate sexual tension with a kiss, but actually amplify it.
So, to straighten out the signs seemingly pointing down divergent paths, and properly light up the way, let's peer into what the right way to use kissing in public is - and why most men use it all wrong.
Comments
Great article Chase On a
Great article Chase
On a completely different note I got thinking recently about relationships where one has children with their partner. Not for me right now, that’s a long way off yet! But I’m interested as I likely will in the future.
I know you’re not a huge fan of monogamy unless you really like the girl or have no need for other girls at the time, and I agree with you on this. Generally I’ll continue to sleep with girls unless my girl and I are monogamous, in which case I still pick-up or flirt with girls, but I don’t sleep with them.
However if one had children I imagine it’s best for them to be brought up in an environment with two parents around, I may be wrong though. What do you think the best thing would be to do in this situation? Have an Open relationship (considering if you’re bringing up kids you’ll probably be together for a couple of decades, possibly more), Break up (and screw the fact that it may be damaging to your kids), or Commit to a monogamous relationship?
Thanks
Relationship Setups with Children
Anon-
It's tough to say for sure, since there's a lot of conflicting research, but most of what I've read seems to point to children having two supportive parents in the house being the best equipped to succeed later in life. I'm of the mind from everything I've read (and I've been studying child-rearing almost as long as I've been studying relationships - e.g., ~10 years old or so) that the most important things to the children are:
That the parents don't hate each other - it's got to be a little jarring to know that half your genes come from someone who hates the person who provided the other half, and people repeat with very high degrees of fidelity in their own relationships the relationships they witnessed their parents having when growing up;
That the children have strong male and female role models to model themselves after - many single-parent families lack a father figure, and from everything I've seen that's clearly detrimental to children; and
That the parents invest significantly in their children's early education - read the Harvard Business Review paper The Making of an Expert, or get a copy of Geoff Colvin's Talent is Overrated, which expands very nicely on this paper with many more examples from the storied history of talented people and studies from the annals of research into raising talents - it becomes pretty clear that a child's future success stems to a very large degree on the training his parents provide (or don't provide) for him
It's probably tough to get away from at least a short-term stretch of monogamy or near-monogamy, at least during the most formative years of a child's life. If you look at humans' natural instincts, you'll see that women tend to divorce less within a few years of bearing children, and men's infidelity rates stay relatively low until about 7 years of marriage, when they start shooting up. That might imply a natural human cycle of 7 to 10 years of reasonably committed relationships / child-rearing (from the time the couple first gets together until the time they part ways); if you look at politicians and celebrities, breakups tend to happen anywhere from a few years after children are born to right around the time the kids go off to college.
There may also be ways to scale child-rearing if you have the financial means and are thinking outside the box enough; at that point, you're dealing with probably not being with the mother any longer, but still being an active part of the child's life. You run the risk you may be training your children to have similar relationship setups as adults, however, so if you don't want that, you'll have to think on it hard.
Open relationships are another option, though I don't have much insight into how these work with children in the house. Anecdotally, couples in open relationships with children seem to lean more toward swinging, since it's easier to have both people go out at once, meet up with other people, and swap partners, but I don't have any data to confirm that.
Chase
Relationship Setups with Children
(Originally posted this as a new comment, feel free to delete that)
Thanks for the quick and thorough reply Chase.
Going by your suggestions I think probably monogamy for the first five years or so of the kid’s life, then an open relationship from then on until they’ve left the house, in which case I’d either continue an open relationship or break up. From what you’ve studied does that sound like it would be a healthy environment for child/children to grow up in, for them and also the relationship?
I guess swinging might be easier logistically, but the main reason I normally like to keep my relationships open is so the girl feels like she hasn’t truly got me. Wouldn’t swinging kind of negate that because it would be something we’d be doing together?
Also Chase what sort of age do you think is good to have children at?
Thanks
Re: Relationship Setups with Children
Anon-
I think breaking up may be okay if it's handled properly, but of course it gets messy: it's one thing thinking about it abstractly, but it's another one when you actually have children and you've spent years watching them grow from infants who just lied around like a sack of potatoes, blinking and screaming, to being unique little people running around and talking and exploring and giving you affection. It's why you see so many bitter men complaining about their ex-wives getting custody of the children; from a purely evolutionary psychology point of view, you'd think the guys would be fist-pumping because now they have complete freedom to go roam again, but in fact they're now strongly emotionally attached to their offspring and having a hard time not seeing them much.
Open relationships I haven't studied in ongoing relationships with children, but unless you get a very high drive, very open-minded woman, you're probably going to fall into one-sided monogamy, where the girl becomes effectively monogamous, then begins to resent your liaisons outside the relationship (which you can never really hide evidence of completely, especially if you're living together), and begins pressuring you, resenting you, and causing problems.
It's also VERY difficult to de-escalate commitment, and usually doesn't work - e.g., going from open relationship to monogamous relationship happens all the time... but going from monogamous to open only happens willingly on the woman's side if she views you as weak and not especially attractive (she wants sexier partners), she's just super high drive and/or very sexually experienced and desires novelty, or you're so uber-dominant that you've told her you can't be exclusive anymore and she's just accepted this because she doesn't want to lose you (but again, this isn't really "willing", so much as it is she'll grudgingly say "okay" for now because she can't part ways - eventually, the resentment boils over).
Splitting apart might be the only viable option, unless she fits the high drive / high novelty-seeking mold (which a fair number of women actually do, so it's not THAT impossible).
As for swinging negating the "I've got you" feeling... yes, my sense is that she'd still end up feeling she has you that way. I haven't done this, or spent much time with people who have, but from the few conversations I've had with participants, I get the feeling that the wife is firmly wearing the pants in the relationship.
As for age, that's very different depending on your goals and what you want to get done. I think it's safe to wait until a little later in life, so long as you're working on both your skill set with women and your ability to sock away large-ish chunks of change, either through your career or through your own business(es). e.g., I have a number of friends between 35 and 45 who are just now starting to have children (with women in their early- to mid-20s) - men's sperm does not much degrade until possibly very late in life, and even the "older men are more likely to have autistic children" scare seems to be more that those older men were reproducing with older women than anything else, from what I've read. So long as you're selecting a younger woman to have children with, your age isn't as big a deal - I'd recommend getting your financial house somewhat in order first, although my overall opinion with everything is sooner is usually better - gives you more time to figure things out and plan out the rest of your life.
Chase
A high quality problem?
I realized that one of the reasons I'm so indecisive and end up losing the girl is that I'm not sure about the girl herself. I tend to attract easier women (or maybe it only seems that way since they show more interest) and then I just start judging them and wondering if I'm making a mistake. Then I start changing my mind and going back and forth because I want to give them a chance but then alarm bells just start going off in my head again (they also get the sense that I'm judging them). The problem is, if I don't judge them, then I could make a huge mistake and it's also an opportunity cost to meet another better girl. I've noticed that girls who aren't quality women tend to act like quality women around me and if I have sex with them i'll get attached and only remember that quality side of them. I'm guessing even though they want to impress me and act this way because they are so happy in the moment, that they will slowly reveal that other side in time.
Not sure what i'm asking here but can you relate and what would you do?
Standards
J-
Extremely common problem for guys who are newer or even intermediate - see this article on it:
"Lower Your Standards (and Date Hotter Girls)"
Chase
Text
Chase I generally game night time and look for ons's instead of picking up numbers to arrange dates in the future etc etc.
But my question is
Once I have got a girls number how is best to go about arranging the date? From what I can remember reading here I am of the mind:
text her an ice breaker hey nice to meet u etc etc 1hr after collecting number
and the be quick about organising a date, so text her the next day arranging a meet up, perhaps a coffee or even around your house in your feeling confident..
is this the righ idea? Is it good to be pretty quick when arranging dates etc? I guess that fits in with the whole attraction expires, the longer you wait the harder it gets mantra.
Ty
Text
You are supposed to arrange the date before you get the number. When you text her it is just to confirm so you know that it is still on and to confirm logistical details.
Re: Text
Ty-
What Anon said - see this article:
"How to Text a Girl"
... and this one:
"What to Text Girls to Get DATES"
Chase
Thanks for the quick and
Thanks for the quick and thorough reply Chase.
Going by your suggestions I think probably monogamy for the first five years or so of the kid’s life, then an open relationship from then on until they've left the house, in which case I’d either continue an open relationship or break up. From what you've studied does that sound like it would be a healthy environment for child/children to grow up in, for them and also the relationship?
I guess swinging might be easier logistically, but the main reason I normally like to keep my relationships open is so the girl feels like she hasn't truly got me. Wouldn't swinging kind of negate that because it would be something we’d be doing together?
Also Chase what sort of age do you think is good to have children at?
Thanks
kissing in public
I've done the small kisses or little pecks and breaking after 1-2 second stating "that's all you get" when i sense that she's losing interest but i'm not sure what you mean by a deep and passionate kiss - deep french kiss? - to do that and break after 1 second it's quite difficult to not rush it cause to get to that i usually build it to that point with a few little pecks or biting her upper lip - maybe you can expand on that a bit - most of the time i try to hold back kissing until isolation one girl came all the way back to my flat and in front of the door she didn't want to go further so i started to kiss her like that to get her in
Deep Kiss
Anon-
The kind of kissing where you're nibbling, taking it slow, building up to it, etc. can be okay if you are alone together with a girl somewhere... I can't think of any situations where I'd suggest using it in public with a girl you haven't slept with yet, though. Using it like you did with a girl standing at your threshold to get her through the door is a good example of when it'd be okay - you're pulling her into your seduction location.
When I say "deep kiss", I'm talking about grabbing a girl firmly, and open mouth kissing her with your face pressed hard against hers, the back of your hand pushing her head into your head (and ideally your other hand against her waist, pulling her body into yours). You might use some tongue here, but I almost never do French kissing anymore, unless a girl is really going nuts trying to shove her tongue down my throat. The tongue is more useful outside her mouth licking her body, than inside it licking her tongue, if you ask me...
Chase
Hello, By "deep kiss", you
Hello,
By "deep kiss", you mean emotionally deep or physically deep? I usually kiss her upper lip first, then somehow squeeze her lower lip while caressing back of her head or neck. It takes like 2,5 - 3,62s :-) then I move away.
Now I mean the kiss part. Or did you mean that I should do things like lingering my hand through her hair?
Adam
Deep Kiss
Adam-
See my response to the comment just above yours - Anon had the same question.
Chase
Sexual threat = some Flake????
Chase,
I think one reason why I sometimes get flakes when setting up the final details of a date after a cold approach is some of the girls may view me a strong sexual threat.
I mean that if they go on a date with me they will know something will happen romantically and it's not a friendly hangout. These girls are attractive and I wouldn't be surprised if they were seeing some guy, or have a boyfriend etc. but I should ask if they are single beforehand but I haven't really done that in my cold approaches.
I'm an attractive guy etc. and I know what I'm doing thanks with a lot of the help coming from you. Would you agree with what I am thinking??? Having the vibe that something will happen romantically.
Would be good to hear your thoughts. Cheers!
Re: Sexual threat = some Flake????
Prince-
Yes, that's something you'll see if you turn your sex appeal on too strongly prior to grabbing a number and leaving. You want it on enough that they're excited / intrigued, but if it's on SO strong that they're ending up with wet panties, and then you take their phone number and promise to meet them later, much of the time they'll tell themselves they'd better stay away from you, OR you make yourself look impotent, for making them feel that way and then not capitalizing on it (i.e., taking them alone somewhere and sleeping with them).
Therefore, you'll usually want to wait to pull out your sexual vibe cannons until you're ready to take a girl home then and there - if you aren't, still be sexually enticing, but dial it back a bit so you don't open the escalation window before you're ready to go through it and end up having it shut on you after you leave.
Chase
Rapid escalation
Hey Chase,
If kissing in public is usually not a good idea, what are your thoughts on rapid escalation and Liam McRae's style of game of pushing social boundaries.
His philosophy is to do bold things but also demonstrate to women that you're aware of what you're doing to avoid coming off as creepy.
Things like: grabbing her ass...then if she doesn't like it, you simply say: oh, just tell me if I'm moving too fast/ being too forward.
He has a video on the 21 convention YouTube channel explaining it.
Overall, is this just another form of unrecommended flash game? Have you done something like this before?
Wes
Re: Rapid escalation
Wes-
Yes, back when I was making out with girls in public (mostly 2006), I was doing things like that - grabbing girls' butts, breasts, putting my hands down their panties and under their bras, yanking their hair, etc., all in public and on dance floors. It's all the same - you're essentially commencing sexual escalation. If you have a bathroom nearby, or some other place you can go THEN AND THERE and have sex, this can be okay. If not, you end up looking really impressive to everybody who's watching you, but you usually do not get the girl to actually come home and sleep with you - instead, you get mountains of resistance to accompanying you home, during the entire pull back, and once she's there with you... most of which you can avoid by simply waiting until you've got her alone with you to do this, and turning her on just enough while out with her in public with a sexual vibe and plenty of incidental touch.
Chase
charm
Chase how can I be charming like denzel washington or tom brady I mean when I was younger I used to be kind of charming but my mental way of girls changed. I got fustrated when girls tested me in my high schhool years and just stopped having confidence. I just felt like girls was always teasing me
Re: charm
Mark-
See this article by Colt:
"How to Be Charming with Women You Meet (10 Steps)"
Chase
Howdy Chase, Recently I've
Howdy Chase,
Recently I've been experimenting more with physically escalating with girls on instant-dates, but in public. And I've had a few key issues -
1.) "Where's you're house?" - As I've improved my fundamentals, I've been getting this more and more. However, my house isn't an option...that's why I'm escalating outdoors. But I look like a clueless putz (that I missed an escalation window) when I say "Oh, it's pretty far away. How about yours?" So how do I keep sexual anticipation when I'm asked this - in a way that assures that I'll close in the end? Note: I've also tried leading girls straight to isolation after they ask this, but the question is asked pretty early on (a little while I ask girls to move with me), so I've been hit with ego depletion a few times.
2.) Transition Points - If we assume plausible deniability is a key factor, how do I walk these girls to my predetermined locations (which are a 8-10 minute walk, usually)? I've noticed girls feel like I'm not leading correctly during the transition - as if I'm just walking around with no plan in mind, so they go into auto-rejection (and will repeatedly give me "take me home" signals beforehand).
3.) How do you "back off" sexually when you escalate in public? - Like, when you're facing LMR. In a house, you can just stop escalating for a little while and bring attention back to a TV or music. But there's no where to sit or pay attention to outdoors; if you back off while escalating in public, it just feels like "well, what are we doing here?" Any techniques on handling this strain of LMR in these specific situations?
Here's my journal on the boards where I've ran into these several times - http://www.girlschase.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3911
Thanks for all your helpful advice, Chase. Making a lot of progress from Sticky Points since your "How to fail correctly" article. Comfort zones were the number one growth inhibitor, but I've since beat that :)
Cheers!
~Nick
Escalation Issues
Nick-
Great to hear you've got comfort zone troubles licked, and are making good progress! If you're at the point where you're repeatedly trying to solve public escalation challenges, you're probably almost there.
It's fine saying, "It's far away, in [specific area name]... where's yours?" Just be calm, sexual, and genuinely intrigued in her answer... in fact, sometimes if you say this, you'll have women who are interested enough voluntarily start working on solving logistics themselves and coming up with ideas on how the two of you can get together. A girl won't write you off as an option if she thinks the logistics don't work; in fact, she's more likely to feel disappointed and realize that she WANTS to sleep with you - and then when you suggest alternate logistics a few minutes later, she'll feel the excitement surge again as she realizes that it just might happen after all.
For walking, either say you're going to go to some place - "Let's head to Pete's Waffle House down Mainline Ave," or, "Let's hit up this little dive bar I know where we can talk a little more one-on-one" - or just tell them you want to get some fresh air and go for a stroll.
As for LMR in public when you're escalating, you usually want to counter this by demanding some kind of compliance - e.g., take her hand and say, "Come here," and then move her a little bit to show her something completely non-sexual that is nevertheless interesting - some part of the environment, something with the stars, etc. Then once that's done, resume escalation again.
Chase
Chase, Out of curiosity, what
Chase,
Out of curiosity, what PUAs where you reading for the lay reports back in your Masf days? I'm thinking Libido and BradP. But I'd like to read some of these lay reports myself, so if you could tell the names I'd appreciate it. Lay Reports are the best parts of the PUA forums.
mASF Lay Reports
Jack-
I don't know Libido, though I read some of Brad's stuff, and he was always pretty fun and creative! The guys whose reports I really dug through the most were:
Zan was another big favorite of mine, though I don't recall whether he posted reports; the original Dimitri was a mentor of mine, and I tore through all his stuff as well (there was another guy, named D1mitr1 or something similar, who joined later, and posted a lot of angry "screw women!" type things - not that guy).
Chase
Your smart way to evade this chase..
Hey chase,
there is a girl who is in my class who is actually cute and she seems interested in me as she frequently through glances at me though we haven't talk yet. I can see it's time to approach her.
But the problem is I can't talk to her before class as we both usually come late mostly after professors), not during the class for the obvious reason and in my class all girls sit on the left side of class and all boys on right side. So I can't sit next to her.
After the class? That's the problem. This girl is such a phone addict that she almost everyday start her cell phone and talk to someone as soon as she leave the class. And it's regular. Every day. Her phone is blocking me. What's your advice should I approach her or leave her? and what's the smart way to approach her when her phone is on.
One more things once I approached a girl and the moment I say Hi! to her her mobile rang and the person on the other side said Hello! Now she saw me approaching her and even realized her conversation on phone started. I feel like stupid. If you know what I mean. I can't even tell her to shut the damn phone off. You must be having smart way to tackle these situations.
Thanks in advance.
Competing with Phones
BM-
The problem with competing with someone a girl's in a phone conversation with is that it instantly puts you hard into pursuit mode, and it's also asking a girl to ignore someone she has a close relationship with who isn't aware of this stranger in order to talk to the stranger, who already seems lower value and socially less aware/adept because he's competing with a friend of hers for her attention. So yeah, this one's pretty ugly.
If I want to talk to a girl who's on a phone, what I'll usually do is catch her attention so that we're making eye contact, and then make an exaggerated facial expression (a silly kind of "Hmmmmmmmmm???" look - eyebrows up, smile/frown as if you're about to start laughing) and point to her phone - kind of like, "I was about to talk to you - but is that important maybe?"
She'll then either pause or end the conversation to engage with you (ending it is much better obviously; if she doesn't end it, direct open her and ask her if she has a few minutes to talk to you or if it's really urgent - you want her to hang up on her friend), or she'll wave you off / ignore you, which is the same as if you'd approached and been rejected. Either way, you've got your answer (and if she accepted your approach, you're now in a conversation and she's hung up her phone).
Chase
different styles
Chase, no offense you don't come across as the most masculine guy, although I'd love to see a video of your body language etc. I know you still have better game than almost any guy but what does that say about the masculine and dominance factor? is aggression and physical dominance perhaps uncorrelated to value/attractiveness? take the wise old man or lion vs. the modern day "alpha" big loud guy or is it best to have both qualities, or even a mixture like the lion that CAN fend off others when it's necessary.
Now that I think about it, the smooth guy is the one who's more calm and socially intelligent whereas the alpha is the one that uses force and action.
Masculinity
Anon-
Nope, no worries. One of the things I had to make my peace with to get better with women was adopting more "feminine" characteristics... I was a hardcore "nothing but manly" guy in my early 20s, and everyone was super intimidated by me... including women. And not a good "he's really sexy" kind of intimidation... more a "that guy looks scary and dangerous" kind (though girls who got to know me better would still get crushes on me).
There are certain women who want NOTHING but the most manly men in every single way - the type who think James Bond is girly because he wears suits and gives little half smiles and purses his lips like a sissy - but it's a very small slice of women, and you trade these in for a much broader appeal when you introduce a bit of femininity. It was just something I realized after being around a lot of very successful with women men... even guys with big muscles or masculine careers (manual labor, IT, etc.) had these distinct feminine auras about them that made women consistently gravitate to and connect to them and treat me like I was an extraterrestrial wrapped in alien masculinity. Eventually I just adopted the traces of the feminine these guys had and I started getting the same reception from women.
Perceived physical dominance is one of the biggest short-term attraction triggers, but it isn't necessarily correlated with manliness. I've seen very effete gay men who've nonetheless been very clearly physically dominant - most straight guys would be physically intimidated by them. It isn't even necessarily tied to body size - I've watched thin guys push around fat and/or muscular guys quite confidently (and effectively). Most men think dominance = masculinity, but the two are separate things. Just take note of any dominant women you see, commanding men twice their size, physically pushing them out of the way, etc.
Loudness is another one like this - I'm sure you've seen the super loud but super gay man. You can be as loud as you want, and be masculine, feminine, or something somewhere in between.
Probably the simplest way of thinking about it: the most sexually successful men tend to be bisexual men with hyper sex drives - they have sex with more women on average than a purely straight man does, and they also have sex with men (though usually the ones who are prolific with women are only occasional dabblers with men). Most of my most prolific friends fell or fall into this category - they're mostly pretty manly, but there's a touch of femininity running through them, they've had a few sexual encounters with men, and their sexual magnetism they deploy on both women and men. I constructed my vibe to work similarly to theirs, since I found that this was the most effective vibe I'd found among all the different men I'd been around at getting women. I didn't worry about coming across "gay", either, because I'm still pretty clearly not... only the most socially oblivious women mistake me for gay (or, sometimes, the ones who have gay fantasies and try to project these on me... always a little trippy), and no gay men ever do, though they still flirt anyway... and if some straight guy wonders if I am, well, that doesn't impact my life in any meaningful way. It's just something you accept - that you have to be a bit more feminine, and sort of vaguely bisexual in how you present yourself - if you want to maximize your reception with the opposite sex. You don't HAVE to, but you get maximal results if you do.
Formula for optimal vibe: masculine core with streaks of femininity showing through. Why women like this most, I believe is because men who are 100% masculine are just too alien to the female mind and cannot be related to - the streaks of femininity give them something to grasp onto and connect with, while the underlying masculinity sexually excites them.
Chase
haha so funny
I currently have a gay stalker at thé gym and im not sûre why but I was oozing of sexuality last month. I dont know where that feeling went though because this month i have no désire for sex. Thanks for the great response! One thing ive been noticing lately is that confident women (usually thé rebellious type) tend to go for hard guys or what you probably refer to as manliest men.
Balding
Hi Chase,
I'm in my early 20's and getting a bald spot at the top of my head - I was wondering if you know any men good with women who are balding in that way. Does anything change? I would shave it all off, but apparently it doesn't look good with a baby face (makes you look like a man-baby).
Best,
The M
Hi man , i am 26 y.o. and i
Hi man , i am 26 y.o. and i am bald as well . It was such a burden at first and ruined my confidence. But once i started reading this site i realized it does not matter at all. Sure there will be girls who do not like bald men , but there are ones who love it. I grew beard btw , so if you it by now grow it, if not forget about it and focus on fundamentals.
John
Re: Balding
M-
Johnny's advice on facial hair is what I'd recommend too. Try growing some out and maybe take fully bald for a spin and see what kind of a reception you get.
As for men with a bald spot at the top - I do know a guy, in fact - Ricardus has a bald spot like this. He worried about it for a while, and even took Propecia to fend it off and regrow his hair, but ended up deciding the side effects weren't worth it, and quit the drug. According to him, the bald spot's barely had an impact.
Chase
How to deal with an expensive restaurant and sprezzatura?
Hi Chase,
I had asked you a question about a japanese girl I had asked out to dinner but by accident, chose a very expensive restaurant.
She seems like she has good money (lawyer in japan), harvard law student, but I had already said the name of a very expensive steak restaurant. Would it be a dealbreaker to change to a less expensive restaurant in terms of sprezzatura? Or would you just go ahead and open yourself to the possibility you would pay if she doesn't offer to pay? Thanks Chase!
Re: How to deal with an expensive restaurant and sprezzatura?
Anon-
I think I'd probably just flake on that date, and then reschedule for something a bit more casual. You wouldn't even have to blow it off completely - just flake on it, then get back in touch a few days later to grab lunch / drinks and do something more low key. If she asks about it, just say yeah, I still want to do that - then simply just don't set a date for it.
Chase
Messy hair
Hi Chase,
Sorry to double post, but this question's about hair, too. :) I noticed that my hair looks best (it attracts the most looks) when it's a little oily, when I don't shower for a day (or, um, more). Also, if you look at some hot celebrities' hairstyles, they basically mimic what your hair looks like if you don't shower for a day, or maybe if you just took a nap - messy, with chunks of hair poking out all over the place.
But I can't figure out how to make my hair look like that after I've showered. Not shampooing makes it look stringy and disgusting, and conditioner makes it silky rather than chunky. I'm trying various brands/combinations and I'm sure I'll figure something out, but do you have any recommendations for this (other than taking a nap every day, haha)?
Of course, I could style it, but I'm not a huge fan of having to put goop in my hair every day...
Best,
The M
Re: Messy hair
M-
I don't know how long your hair is, and this my vary by length, but for me with medium-length hair, I wash my hair usually just with water, and only shampoo every 3 weeks to a month or so. Back when I used to shampoo more regularly and started cutting back, that left my hair REALLY oily for the first 2 weeks or so; I shampooed at the end of that 2 weeks (rinsed and repeated something like 3 times to get it all out), and then after that I was fine shampooing just once every 3 weeks to a month - basically, if I get in a shower and start wetting my hair and I can SMELL it, it's time to shampoo. Otherwise, water is enough.
What ends up happening is you have just enough of your natural oils in your hair that it looks quite good, and your scalp adapts to produce less oil (since it's compensating for the oil regular shampooing robs you of by shifting into oil production overdrive if you shampoo too often). When you wash with just plain water, that keeps your head clean, but leaves your natural oils in place. Makes styling much easier too - I used to use hair product to get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, but no longer need it.
Chase
can you explain seduction to a girlfriend
As a seducer out of the many women you will meet in your life the one that you choose to make your girlfriend will be one who is particularly insightful and wise. I know that something I’ve picked up on with the few serious girlfriend’s I’ve had is that they would understand me deeply (or if they didn’t have me figured out to some degree they would at least make conscious efforts to) and understand my needs, what drives me etc. which is all very much congruent to the Byronic/traveler/mystery-man/seducer type you could say.
An example that comes to mind here is Giacomo Casanova and a paramour of his Henriette who would challenge him and understood him better than any of the other women he had been with (challenges are something else here to, girlfriend material girls tend to be the more masculine, no bullshit girls who will challenge me just like I do to all girls).
I was having a deep conversation with a fwb of mine (who is intelligent and wise but not quite girlfriend material) and I was wondering about this question: would it be possible to have a girlfriend who could understand and accept the nuances of seduction, dating, etc .. the macro of it to start off with I suppose, but yes, understand say like how as a man I have to pay attention to a woman’s actions and not what she really says, or how women want friends and lovers and boyfriends, or how it is better to date multiple girls etc.
Not to delve too deep into your personal life either Chase but you’ve mentioned that you’d been married before (would’ve had to be a particularly exceptional girl I would guess), you had to have explained some of the basic tenets of seduction to her at some point or another? Maybe it’s a certain amount that you can introduce here and not more but I wonder about this topic as I meet more high-quality girls who check some to many to all my requirements.
-Gem
Re: can you explain seduction to a girlfriend
Gem-
Varies by the girl. When you're very interested in human psychology and mating dynamics and all this, it inevitably bleeds through into your conversations, and women tend to be quite interested in it too.
I've had girlfriends who would attempt to shame any effort to talk about men getting better with women ("It's so easy! You just go out to a club and talk to some SLUT and then you're having SEX!"), and you can construct convincing-enough arguments to change her mind, but it's annoying and not really worth delving into those subjects because what's the point, it's just going to be some shame battle where you're forced to fight on every single point just to not lose respect in the relationship.
Conversely, I've had extremely rational girlfriends who loved to talk about these sorts of things... they'd still have SOME resistance to certain topics, but with an argument that's constructed rationally enough, you will get the point across and they'll see it (as always, clear examples are a must). These kinds of girlfriends are lots of fun, because the really smart ones will point out nuances to you you'd been blind to or hadn't picked up on - at least a few of the articles on this site came as a result of some of those conversations I've had with women. That's usually with the less emotional women who aren't as in love with you - the ones who are more emotionally attached to you have more of an agenda in enforcing traditional thought about sex and mating.
Chase
Didnt invite a girl home/did I read her disinterest wrong?
Hi Chase,
I have a question regarding asian women in general. It seems that a lot of them do not give out signals that they are attracted to you.
For example, I went out with a japanese girl from japan who is about 5 years older than me today for dinner. I don't know if she considers me just as a friend or more.
I had asked her out before via text and she would always be waiting days to text back before finally, recently, her texting speed picked up dramatically. This time when I asked her out for dinner, she at first said she was busy but then later she texted me saying she was available for today.
When I went to go eat with her, she told me how she hadn't had a chance to meet any Americans and that she really appreciated meeting me. (Is this a friendzone sign?) Later she seemed a bit disengaged going back so I decided to not invite her back home as I was almost sure at the time that she didn't like me. However, reading around online, it seems like asian girls all are somewhat like this.
Would you have any tips on how to scope out if a japanese/asian girl is into you? For example, the girl didn't touch me, seemed reserved, made boring conversation, and then told me how she didnt meet americans and really liked meeting me. Furthermore, she plays these massive text games but always replies back enthusiastically.
Asian Women and Interest
Anon-
That's correct - a lot of Asian women (especially East Asian women - China, Korea, Japan) are not very well versed at all in communicating their interest in men verbally or nonverbally - many of them aren't even in touch with their own emotions / sex drives enough to be fully conscious of when they're interested or not. They tend to operate on a more detached plane than women from most other parts of the world.
Japanese women in particular suppress their emotions and expect you to more or less read their minds. One of the reasons Japanese women are very easy for Western men is because if you are persistent, they will invariably comply - e.g., the hard push is especially effective with them. That can be confusing when you first encounter them, but once you've cracked that nut, you can sleep with a lot of Japanese women very quickly by simply being persistent and smoothly and charmingly insisting that the night go on.
The best way to know if an Asian girl is interested is the same as the best way to know if any girl is interested, really - try moving her or using any form of compliance testing, all the way up to moving her home and escalating. And persist a little if she at first says no - many times she's just waiting for you to invite her several times in a row.
Chase
This should be more encouraged
Hey Chase, love this article a lot, I feel as though I've been missing this stuff for a long time. What I wanted to say was that I feel as though this should be more encouraged than you mention in your article; you're acting like people shouldn't go for the #4 method for when to do this, when really it will amplify ones learning curve. You say it should be left for causes 1-3, and if you really like the girl don't do it, because you may lose her, but most of the time (I'd actually say, every time) you're going to lose her unless your at an advanced level, through some sort of mistake anyway. You encourage an abundance mentality for this very same reason.
I'm not trying to tell you to edit this topic to make it sound more encouraged, I'm just voicing my opinion, because I listen to a lot of you're advice and it's great, but this one is REALLY good, yet your acting like it's a big deal, and I can't say that I'll listen to the part where you say don't do it with girls you like, because I will (given the right emotional circumstances). I know if I don't it will just be a missed opportunity, and I'll lose her eventually one way or another, until I have enough experience.
I guess it's touchy since there's a wide range of people reading on here, from completely noobie, to advanced, reading this, and many people don't really know where they fall (I can't say I know either).
Keep up the great stuff
Agree - Kissing is a problem
This is a trouble that I ran into, and I think many seducers had or have a similar experience. I think the core thought is - if you get a woman beyond the kiss barrier, she will sleep with you. And as you get skilled, you learn that it's not so difficult to kiss women. So you start using this power to break the kiss barrier. Does it work? No.
After reading your article, I tried to recall women that I kissed during the first non-sexual date and had sex with on some next date. And with kissing i mean several deep-kissing sessions, not a welcome peck and one kissing session towards the end or at parting. Result? There were several such women, however they were already decided to have sex with me, no matter what. But I recalled even more women (and probably still more I forgot) that refused to meet me again after a kissing first date! So statistically, kissing did not help me.
I think the problem is like you say, dissipating the tension. She knows what you want, what will come, you get predictable. And she looses attraction and interest. She will like you, reciprocate the kisses, maybe even get aroused, but it will go away after you end the date. Then you'll be some guy she kissed... She doesn't know if she wants you, but she should want you because she kissed you and liked it so much. Hm does she want to kiss you again? And when you kissed, what will come next? Sex? She can even feel buyer's remorse.
The second problem is that such kissing is part of escalation. But principally you should not escalate if you cannot have sex. Then what it is if not escalation? It's just a kissing game. She will play, but that's all. You shoot al your ammo bro. You break the kiss barrier, but the door to sex remains locked. She knows it and when the date is over, it feels weird (combined with problem above). And your woman has a simple solution to both problems. Avoid you.
The solution is to use kissing to build anticipation, as Chase says. however this is advanced because once you start kissing, you are tempted to kiss again. So it's better to postpone it and kiss only if the tension is too high.
Funny thing is that this is a total controversy of the question "when should I kiss her". The answer is - kiss her if you need to decrease her nervousness.... or if you can have sex then and there :-)
Tom
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