I rarely post here anymore, only when something that I think is big and worth sharing comes along.

This fits that category. Badboy is back… but for how long?

I’ve never actually reviewed a Badboy product on this blog, the reason is I came to Badboy’s teachings late. I was, for a while, quite staunchly protective of the indirect style, and saw direct methods as missing something and not as refined or as – frankly – psychological as indirect.

I was wrong then, direct methods have structure and are intelligent, what’s more they come from a position of enhanced masculine identity. Indirect has its place, but as a convert to direct (slowly over the years), I found it more satisfying.

Badboy is the main protagonist of direct method, he’s been in the game as long as anyone and played a role in the Game. The funny thing that I found with Badboy’s teaching is that it shattered my beliefs on direct being an unintelligent and unstructured simple caveman style.

OK, I’ve built it up enough – but if you haven’t tried direct game before, then do what I suggest now and head over to Badboy’s blog to ask him a question.

I heard today that, for a limited time, Badboy is opening up the floor to questions ahead of a big announcement, you can find the questions page here: http://badboylifestyle.com/blog/heres-my-question-badboy/

The success I got with indirect has been overshadowed by direct style – instant attraction anyone! Hope this message reaches you well.

I thought I’d take a moment to mention the launch of the Seduction Chronicles Forum.

http://www.seduction-chronicles.net/community/index.php

There are a number of seduction and pickup forums on the web, some better than others. And every so often there is a new one. These days the new forums are most often sponsored by a Dating Guru. Nothing wrong with that, there are a few dating gurus who’s forums I could hang out in and learn a lot.

But why take the time now to mention this particular community launch? Well it’s because I think this could be the most current, ‘big picture’ perspective type forum, if you know what I mean. Why do I think this, because that is what Donovan’s site Seduction-Chronicles is. It has its finger on the pulse of the happenings in the seduction community and the writing is of a consistently high quality. If that overview is brought to the community forum by Donovan and the other contributers then it will be another excellent resource.

Of course, as a forum, it is only as good as its members. So go join and make it a great place to be.

I had intended never to begin any writing on seduction, pickup or dating with the hackneyed phrase ‘The Rules of Seduction’. I apologize truly. The cliche’d title comes from the UK channel 4 show of the same name. It broadcast on Friday the 7th of December.

As the channel 4 description puts it: “A journey into the hidden world of the pick-up artist, men who’ve developed tricks and routines that they claim any man can use to seduce any woman.”

Have a look at some clips here

Some might remember Channel 4 in the UK was also responsible for the program Seduction School that featured Juggler, which overall I liked. So is The Rules of Seduction compelling TV, Is it a good insight into the reality of seduction practice? It tries hard at one, it is certainly not the other. Some interesting things, amongst them the reappearance of Darren (I Am The Future), I had wondered on occasion what had happened to that fellow. It was he, who (along with Hoobie) gave the community its first real infield footage about three years ago… Goodness, that long!

More from the CH4 brief:

“Darren AKA ‘I am the Future’ is one of the UK’s leading pick-up artists: a growing group of young men who claim to excel in the art of seduction. This film explores their often murky world from its London underbelly to the ‘glamour’ of the annual L.A. seduction summit”

Murky World… Tricks… Sleaze… Lies… SuperPowers – Well, its on TV it must be true?? Have I been doing it wrong…

The big seduction product event of the year is imminent. It is, of course, The Mind of Mystery Home Study Course from Venusian Arts. It is a substantial 21 DVDs, 13 CDs plus workbook course with high expectation and a high price-tag.

Demand will be high… higher still due to the scarcity of the product. 10o0 copies on its release. It comes hot on the tail of VH1s ‘The Pickup Artist’, and due to the extra publicity of seduction, pickup and dating material there has been a slew of products coming out for the student (or potential student) of seduction. The Mind of Mystery, being the peak in terms of having The Pickup Artist’s bonafide TV celebrity guru coach, that Mystery has become, at its helm. It costs $2397, you can get it from mindofmystery.com

…Are we going to secure a copy for review? I can only say… Possibly (a strong possibly). But, there is the reservaton that a review might be redundant by the time its written – Mind of Mystery may be sold out. The price too, which is thought to be in the ballpark of a few thousand may make a review relevant only to a more exclusive audience. But, if there is interest, then a review will be forthcoming.

The Hype and its Bearing on the Learning and Practice of Seduction. What we’re talking about here is the development of seduction training and methods. A point to reiterate here is something that comes up a lot in seduction training: Beware of falling into the trap of stockpiling knowledge, of seeing the development of seduction training as essential to your own learning. It isn’t. There is good knowledge and good coaching from good teachers in the seduction sphere. The next big thing may be good, may even be great but the last big thing may have more answers.

Anyway, that said. Seduction skills, methods, knowledge and teaching method all continue to improve. We shall soon see how Mind of Mystery fills out in these developments.

A quick word on the other recently released and imminent future releases from the pickup and seduction world. There are some that are very good and we will have reviews of them all. A couple of picks: Brad P’s Fashion Bible – Brad takes a social study of fashion for attraction and purpose. What could otherwise be a cheap book of fashion tips is an almost anthroplogy of attraction through fashion methods. Also from Brad P, I have a review planned for the Club Game program – this is the future, it is how all club game should be run. Mehow’s Infield Exposed is a cornerstone of the new direction of pickup and seduction teaching. Infield events captured on film, with full detailed explanation and insight.

Full reviews coming soon.

Many posts on this site have now been updated to reflect current information on the seduction community and its learning (links and sources which had changed now properly reflect relevant seduction sites).

The community is abuzz at this time, and I wish all new visitors the best of success. I hope you find some answers and direction here. We continue to enjoy receiving email and thank you for your interest. In answer to the subject that the majority of enquiries were about – Yes, ‘The Seduction Review’ will begin to post again… and soon!

Video footage of teaching, of sarging, of anything related to the perspective of seduction is around for the seduction student’s education and enjoyment. And, back in 2004 the appearance of seduction related video led directly to the Hoobie and Loverboy project PUAMedia.com which (unfortunately) eventually caved under the weight of the lack of regular quality recordings and efforts required to condense them in one place. However it returned a few days ago in a redesigned blog format.

The return of PUAMedia provides a single reference point for most of the video available on and related to seduction in one place. I say most, so we don’t forget the media hosted in other places, not for the likes of youtube consumption.

The announcement above leads to seduction video in general. The main categories of seduction video are the clips of teaching at seminars; the infield pickup; and the entertainment show that features seduction. While being produced for enjoyment, the last category of TV features often have some re-framing merit to them.

One such video was the UK Channel 4 special Seduction School that saw Wayne Elise and Johnny Saviour from Charisma Arts take three self-proclaimed misfits to Seduction School.

I was going to post video for the Seduction School Channel 4 special. But… Attraction-Chronicles went to the effort of putting it on youtube, credit to them
http://attraction-chronicles.blogspot.com/2006/08/watch-seduction-school-episode-video.html

Regarding footage of live seduction technique. The practitioner really embracing the use of in-field video is Mehow. The videos address the challenges of covert recording and come up trumps for real world footage. Mehow’s latest video, on the redesigned mehow.tv website, Bachelorette Set Part 3 continues the series with comfort, attraction and group management, and further demos. Check it out here www.mehow.tv/video/indexFull.php

Mystery is to release a hardcover book to the buying public. The Mystery Method, written by Mystery with a foreword by Neil Strauss, is a little way off with a release date of February 2007.

We can speculate on the content. We can guess that it will be a more media friendly version of the Venusian arts. For us who have read good seduction texts and their self-help, bookstore pseudo-psychology equivalents, it is a positive move with applied seduction method finding its way onto bookstore shelves. Hopefully, it will remain true to its strengths. Quite obviously the method itself will share a template with The Venusian Arts Handbook, the material more suitable for the general public.

I know also that the release of this book will once again open the community discussion on the mainstream movement of seduction method. And I suppose the title of this post doesn’t help. But, for those concerned, please take note that there are many strong reasons why increased public exposure does NOT affect seduction practice.

Mehow held a birthday bash, and there he recorded some more in-field footage.

The video is called Comfort, it is 26 minutes long and is available at http://www.mehow.tv/video/indexFull.php

In this short post I wont (yet) review the material. If you haven’t seen it, there is a lot on display in this video. Away from seduction, on the production side: the quality is impressive, very difficult to get such good footage filmed covertly.

Many guys know of Thundercat. For those who don’t, Thundercat was one of the first seduction bloggers and author of The Art of Approaching. His site thundercatseductionlair gave voice to a lot of issues within seduction. TCs ranting (his term not mine) style on various seduction subjects led to discussion from many seduction quarters.

More recently his site invited some controversy with scathing attacks on some members of the seduction community and wholehearted support to others. However, some good insight and information has been found there consistently since its creation in early 2004.

TCs lair was apparently abandoned months ago, and many missed it for its dose of seduction hot topics. But, as you may have guessed by the title of this post, Thundercat has returned with a new blog.

His old site is remaining at www.thundercatseductionlair.com
For reference to the archived posts. There is some interesting stuff in there.

The new Thundercat site can be found at www.artofapproaching.com/blog
Maybe the controversy will be tempered, or maybe not. Maybe that’s why we enjoyed it! Maybe not. You may want to check it out.

The video of the new Lumalive technology by Philips has been popular recently, and it has been suggested within the seduction sphere for its peacocking application.

A word on this.

Peacocking is about attention grabbing style and identity. Outside of the peacocking idea, the incorporation of a gimmick can be a useful seduction tool for curiosity and interest. But, by the nature of this technology, lumalive wouldn’t be a strong candidate for peacocking style.

The lumalive technology (if it becomes popular) will go through an initial phase with the concept itself holding the attraction of it. When it becomes the norm, then the creative applications will take front stage and at that time it’s use could either indicate lame party quirk or (far more rarely) a cool enhancement of the wearer’s identity.

I’m put somewhat in mind of guys wearing Daffy Duck ties or novelty t-shirts; you have an item that screams social reject and not centre of social attention. Another point, one which almost nullifies my last one. Peacocking is not just about the wearing of certain clothes but the attitude of the (extravagant) style. Thus a guy truly peacocking could (almost) get away with wearing the wacky tie or the ‘I’m With Stupid’ T. I wouldn’t recommend it as such, but peacocking is about consistent style that demonstrates value and creates a social pressure that the individual absorbs as part of his identity.

Finally: On the technology itself. If you dig deeper into Philips’ work on lumalive you discover that it currently relies on chunky batteries to be worn, with only a 4 hour operation time. I don’t think we’ll be seeing them in field very soon. But to those who wish to pioneer this stuff, their use before any mass popular appeal will certainly be a talking point and generate some neutral approaches.