by Vector » Tue Oct 02, 2007 3:44 am
I read it. I didn't like it.
One of the things I like about Mystery and the community is there's a realization that the way things work in fairy tales or in Hollywood is not what really works. And that what women say they want is not the same as what they respond to.
As I was explaining to a girl recently, Mystery and the community are in a way like scientists ignoring what popular myth says should work, instead figuring out what actually works through experimentation. Medicine used to employ bleeding and leeches, which had no scientific basis but had enough belief to keep it going. Medicine eventually came around but as far as relationships and sex we're still in the dark ages.
The issue I have with The Art of Seduction is that it's more myth piled upon myth. I don't care what the archetypes for the mythical seducers are. I'm not writing a romance novel. I would much rather learn where the real-life seducers differ from the fairy-tale seducers, because the fairy-tale seduction frame is one of the obstacles I'm trying to overcome.
[size=75]I'M OUT OF THE HOUSE AND I'VE GOT MY GOGGLES ON! ONWARD TO SEX LOCATION!