The No-Dating Challenge For Intermediate Players
It’s Okay To Be A Beta Male
Don’t Worry About How You’ll Break Up With Her
Man’s Resistance To Change
The Benefits Of Dating In Second-Tier International Cities
The Myth Of The Natural
The Fishbowl
Do American Guys Have The Best Dating Game In The World?


The point is that this is where a lot of men spend their young and formative years in dealing with women. This is because their mothers, pastors, teachers, Scout leaders, and others in authority over them told them that this is how the mating dance is done: You give the woman what she wants, when she wants it, and she will reciprocate with attention, affection, love and sex. As too many men find out the hard way, the painful way, the time-wasted way and the expensive way, this is most assuredly NOT how a man makes himself attractive.

I received those mating rules as a young man in the late 1970s to the mid 1980s, from men and women who came of age just before the 1960s sexual revolution. Those rules worked very well in a time of assortative mating. Men dated within their leagues. To get sex a man — including the top alpha men — had to get married or at least engaged. Hypergamy was tightly controlled. There were sluts, but they were shunned and operated at the margins. “Slut” was by far the worst epithet you could direct at a young woman. Men who had unmarried sex could expect to meet the business end of a father’s shotgun.