Originally Posted by Gentle_Ben

Roger, check out the book called "The Game: Penetrating the secret society of Pickup Artists". It's by Neil Strauss, a great journalist who writes often in Rolling Stone Magazine.

The book is such a fun and easy read. He basically infiltrates this secret world of pickup artists and studies and learns and becomes a master pickup artist himself. so from a sociological perspective its really interesting. and from a pratical perspective, alot of tactics and routines, and ways of thinking and being really work like fucking crazy. if you delve further you'll find a whole underground society of these people. it gets a bit extreme, but if you can take some good techniques away, it really helps. It's all about the game, what you look like hardly matters.