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The seduction community, also known as the pick-up artist or PUA community, is a movement of men whose goal is seduction and sexual success with/access to women. Members of the community often call themselves pickup artists (PUA). The community exists through Internet newsletters and weblogs, marketing (e.g. banner ads, seminars, one-on-one coaching), forums and groups, as well as over a hundred local clubs, known as "lairs". The rise of "seduction science", "game", or "studied charisma", as it is often called, has been attributed to the "chaotic" modern dating scene reportedly as a result of the increased empowerment and equality of women in western society and changes to traditional gender roles combined with the influence of distinct biological imperatives in men and women.〔Hymowitz, Kay S., "(Love in the Time of Darwinism )", ''City Journal'', Autumn 2008〕 Commentators in the media have described "game" as sexist or misogynistic, while admitting that the techniques espoused do appear to improve men's success at attracting women.〔Friedersdorf, Conor, "(Some I Insult, Some I Let Go )", ''True/Slant'', 22 July 2009〕 Academic research has also confirmed to some extent that "game" and attraction principles do have a factual basis in social, physiological and evolutionary psychology.〔Oesch, Nathan, "(The Dating Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Emerging Science of Human Courtship )", ''Evolutionary Psychology'', 2012. 10(5): 899-909〕〔Whitbourne, Susan Krauss, "(How to Spot a Manipulator )", ''Psychology Today'', 17 June 2014〕 == History == The modern seduction movement dates to 1970, with the publication of ''How To Pick Up Girls!'' by Eric Weber, credited as the first modern pickup artist. However, one self-described "picker-upper of women" preceding Weber was rational emotive psychotherapist Albert Ellis, who wrote ''The Art of Erotic Seduction'', a how-to guide for men that encouraged them to meet women through the "pickup," with Roger Conway in 1967. Ellis claimed he had been practicing seducing female strangers since he overcame his fear of approaching them through "in-vivo desensitization" in Bronx Botanical Garden in the 1930s. The 1970s and 1980s saw independent authors and teachers, but no organized community. The seduction community itself originated with Ross Jeffries and his students. In the late 1980s, Jeffries taught workshops, promoted a collection of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) techniques called "speed seduction" (SS), and published a short book of his techniques, ''How to Get the Women You Desire into Bed''. Other exponents established themselves in roughly the same era, but lacked contacts with each other. In 1994, Lewis De Payne, then a student of Jeffries, founded the newsgroup alt.seduction.fast (ASF), which marked the birth of the community per se.〔 This then spawned a network of other Internet discussion forums, email lists, blogs, and sites where seduction techniques could be exchanged.〔 The original alt.seduction.fast became overwhelmed with spam, and a group called "Learn the Skills Corporation" developed a moderated alternative known as "Moderated ASF" (commonly "mASF"). During the same period, in the late 1990s, Clifford Lee began his ''Cliff's List Seduction Letter'' as a central independent voice of the community. Other seduction teachers emerged with competing methods, and became known within this community as "seduction gurus" or "gurus". The first commercially successful seduction/pick up book was a manual by Tariq Nasheed (also known as King Flex) entitled ''The Art Of Mackin'', which was released in 2000. Tariq Nasheed went on to write several other seduction/dating books such as ''The Mack Within: The Holy Book Of Game'' and ''The Elite Way:10 Rules Men Must Know In Order To Deal With Women''. The community was brought to greater mainstream awareness with the 1999 drama film ''Magnolia'', in which Tom Cruise portrayed a charismatic yet embittered and emotionally troubled pickup guru who was loosely modeled on Ross Jeffries.〔Konow, David (January/February 2000). "PTA Meeting: An Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson". ''Creative Screenwriting''.〕 In 2005, journalist Neil Strauss wrote ''The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists'', an exposé of the seduction community. ''The Game'' reached the New York Times Bestseller List, and made known pickup and seduction techniques to a wider audience. The community was further publicized with the television show ''The Pick Up Artist'' (2007–2008) on VH1. Within the community, ''seduction lairs'' are underground meeting groups for men devoted to the study of seduction as it is taught in the seduction community. Lairs first began as study groups soon after Ross Jeffries released his first products and began teaching sometime in the early 90s. Hundreds of lairs now exist worldwide. A "lair" typically involves two elements: an online forum and group meetings. These elements are used as resources for men who want to learn to become well-versed in how to successfully attract women. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seduction community」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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