Seduction Review

The first review that I thought I’d upload to the new wordpress home of Seduction Review is aptly the original seduction study course ‘The Basic Speed Seduction Home Study Course’.

Available from www.seduction.com for $245.00 plus shipping.
The Speed Seduction Home Study course dates back to a time when seduction technology was wholly different. The past two and a half years, I’d say, have seen a fundamental shift in the way seduction is approached. But is the study course (which dates originally from 1994 and was released in its present incarnation in 2000) of value today?

The review below was originally published in August 2003. As with all the reviews on this site, I’ve reviewed (re-reviewed if you will) the material, techniques etc. again and edited the original post with insights from a contemporary perspective. Enjoy

The Review

What You Get: The course comes on 12 CDs and a manual (the manual, while useful, is not an essential teaching element). The supplementary materials are a copy of Ross Jeffries’ original book; training ‘flash’ cards; introductory booklets.

What is the premise: With the Speed Seduction foundation coming from the field of NLP (that mixed bag field of linguistics, psychology and hypnosis for ‘effective’ understanding, communication and change) you get a product here that sets out to deliver self-change AND teach the fundamentals of language patterns designed to invoke positive emotional responses. Ross Jeffries (the creator of Speed Seduction) …
The periodical interludes form master hypnotist Mark Cunningham, who’s gift for re-framing and personal insights are of considerable importance to the effectiveness

What About Practical Application. It is a difficult task to entirely validate the process of the language based applications. It can often seem a subjective exercise when talking about depth of trance or process language. Learning patterns and the fundamentals of pattern language is a practicable exercise. Offering the specific examples provides an out-the-box solution and you can get stuck in. There is the practical limitations of Speed Seduction to consider, it is a system that is difficult to use in nightclubs. I have had success with using it in clubs, but it remains a predominantly semantic product that relies on the subtleties of it’s language applications for results – that is difficult in a bar atmosphere (Ross Jeffries is open about never using Speed Seduction in bars or clubs).

The last couple of CDs has on-stage demonstrations of the material in practice (by Ross and by a student). This, despite the contrived surroundings, is of immense benefit.

An understanding of the principles of communication that Speed Seduction pioneered used to be essential to practitioners of seduction (Pickup Artists or PUAs if you accept that somewhat crude term). But many men are having success without studying the hypnotic communications of Speed Seduction (or ever studying any related NLP or ‘psychology of communication’ material).

Is it then just a matter of choice, do you choose Speed Seduction if you feel it fits your style of game or to learn how to add specific language processes to your seduction? My first reaction is to say no, that you should learn the fundamentals but I remind myself that my introduction to seduction and pickup was through Speed Seduction …

The process of Speed Seduction is certainly not redundant, the recent trends in seduction technology have seen a move away from linguistic process into a more anthropology based seduction. What I mean is that the process of attraction and seduction can be communicated by specifically instigating an emotional response (the Speed Seduction way), not least because of our vast capacities for imagination and the role semantics plays in this. But the processes can, quite naturally, be communicated through hard-wired attraction cues that have evolved in our species (the more popular approach in seduction technology today). These aren’t mutually exclusive schools, but for the sake of clear categories it is so.

One thing is certain, Ross Jeffries is the father of modern seduction. And Speed Seduction remains today the only one of its kind. You do learn things in Speed Seduction that are not taught anywhere else. An essential quality of a good seduction product.

Summary. I can recommend the Speed Seduction Home Study course, I can’t say it’s essential. It is, however, of real value – this approach is always of real value. Even if it is not a core learning anymore.

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