In order to understand PUA Lingo, you first have to understand the origins and motivations of the seduction community.
In brief, the following events occurred in the evolution of the community from underground culture to mainstream media: Before our time: Casanova and Don Juan recorded their stories of seduction in the form of stories and memoirs.
Seduction has been studied by innovators such as Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe, Tallyrand-Perigord, among others in history to their advantage.
(Robert Greene details this in The Art of Seduction) Early 1980's: The modern seduction community's origins date back to Eric Weber's book How to Pick Up Girls.
Late 1980's: Ross Jeffries promotes a collection of NLP techniques called "Speed Seduction" (SS).
The 1988 publication of his book How to Get the Women You Desire into Bedhelped to spawn interest the seductive arts within fledgling online communities In 1994, Lewis De Payne (associate of hacker Kevin Mitnick), then a student of Jeffries, founded the newsgroup alt.
seduction.
fast (ASF), spawning a network of other Internet discussion forums, email lists, blogs, and sites where seduction techniques could be discussed and exchanged.
Seduction was no longer local; it was world-wide.
1990-2000: The creation of an online newsgroup gave birth to discussions of seduction techniques among gurus, both natural and unnatural.
Notable gurus on these forums included: Juggler (Wayne Elise), Badboy, Shark, PlayboyLA (Stephen Nash), Tyler Durden, Carlos Xuma, Swinggcat, Steve Piccus, Sinn, Savoy, Hypnotica (Von Sydow, Eric), and Zan Perrion, among others.
1998-2004: Mystery (Eric Von Markovik) revolutionized the pickup arts with the publishing of The Mystery Methodand by taking seduction methods out of seminar classrooms and Internet discussion boards.
He and another guru by the name of Wayne Elise (Juggler) became the first to hold in-the-field training sessions.
2002-2006: David DeAngelo successfully mass markets dating advice packaged first as an e-book called Double Your Dating(DYD) to the mainstream, without using PUA lingo.
2005: Neil Strauss writes The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artistsdetailing his 2 year journey in the seduction community, reaching the New York Times Bestseller List and popularizing pickup and seduction to a broader audience.
2007: Mystery with 2 former students (Matador and J-Dog) host their own show "The Pickup Artist" on VH1, where they train a group of "lovable losers" to become pickup artists.
Season 2 airs in October 2008.
2008-2009: Explosion of online content and media coverage of the seduction community; PUAs get called out on using routines and lines from "The Game" and "that VH1 pickup show!" by women everywhere.
To learn more about this you can visit PUA Lingo or check our PUA Openers page.
In brief, the following events occurred in the evolution of the community from underground culture to mainstream media: Before our time: Casanova and Don Juan recorded their stories of seduction in the form of stories and memoirs.
Seduction has been studied by innovators such as Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe, Tallyrand-Perigord, among others in history to their advantage.
(Robert Greene details this in The Art of Seduction) Early 1980's: The modern seduction community's origins date back to Eric Weber's book How to Pick Up Girls.
Late 1980's: Ross Jeffries promotes a collection of NLP techniques called "Speed Seduction" (SS).
The 1988 publication of his book How to Get the Women You Desire into Bedhelped to spawn interest the seductive arts within fledgling online communities In 1994, Lewis De Payne (associate of hacker Kevin Mitnick), then a student of Jeffries, founded the newsgroup alt.
seduction.
fast (ASF), spawning a network of other Internet discussion forums, email lists, blogs, and sites where seduction techniques could be discussed and exchanged.
Seduction was no longer local; it was world-wide.
1990-2000: The creation of an online newsgroup gave birth to discussions of seduction techniques among gurus, both natural and unnatural.
Notable gurus on these forums included: Juggler (Wayne Elise), Badboy, Shark, PlayboyLA (Stephen Nash), Tyler Durden, Carlos Xuma, Swinggcat, Steve Piccus, Sinn, Savoy, Hypnotica (Von Sydow, Eric), and Zan Perrion, among others.
1998-2004: Mystery (Eric Von Markovik) revolutionized the pickup arts with the publishing of The Mystery Methodand by taking seduction methods out of seminar classrooms and Internet discussion boards.
He and another guru by the name of Wayne Elise (Juggler) became the first to hold in-the-field training sessions.
2002-2006: David DeAngelo successfully mass markets dating advice packaged first as an e-book called Double Your Dating(DYD) to the mainstream, without using PUA lingo.
2005: Neil Strauss writes The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artistsdetailing his 2 year journey in the seduction community, reaching the New York Times Bestseller List and popularizing pickup and seduction to a broader audience.
2007: Mystery with 2 former students (Matador and J-Dog) host their own show "The Pickup Artist" on VH1, where they train a group of "lovable losers" to become pickup artists.
Season 2 airs in October 2008.
2008-2009: Explosion of online content and media coverage of the seduction community; PUAs get called out on using routines and lines from "The Game" and "that VH1 pickup show!" by women everywhere.
To learn more about this you can visit PUA Lingo or check our PUA Openers page.
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