| In order to understand PUA Lingo, you first have to | | | | Carlos Xuma, Swinggcat, Steve Piccus, Sinn, Savoy, |
| understand the origins and motivations of the | | | | Hypnotica (Von Sydow, Eric), and Zan Perrion, among |
| seduction community. In brief, the following events | | | | others. |
| occurred in the evolution of the community from | | | | 1998-2004: Mystery (Eric Von Markovik) |
| underground culture to mainstream media: | | | | revolutionized the pickup arts with the publishing of |
| Before our time: Casanova and Don Juan recorded | | | | The Mystery Methodand by taking seduction |
| their stories of seduction in the form of stories and | | | | methods out of seminar classrooms and Internet |
| memoirs. Seduction has been studied by innovators | | | | discussion boards. He and another guru by the name |
| such as Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe, Tallyrand-Perigord, | | | | of Wayne Elise (Juggler) became the first to hold |
| among others in history to their advantage. (Robert | | | | in-the-field training sessions. |
| Greene details this in The Art of Seduction) | | | | 2002-2006: David DeAngelo successfully mass |
| Early 1980's: The modern seduction community's | | | | markets dating advice packaged first as an e-book |
| origins date back to Eric Weber's book How to Pick | | | | called Double Your Dating(DYD) to the mainstream, |
| Up Girls. | | | | without using PUA lingo. |
| Late 1980's: Ross Jeffries promotes a collection of | | | | 2005: Neil Strauss writes The Game: Penetrating the |
| NLP techniques called "Speed Seduction" (SS). The | | | | Secret Society of Pickup Artistsdetailing his 2 year |
| 1988 publication of his book How to Get the Women | | | | journey in the seduction community, reaching the |
| You Desire into Bedhelped to spawn interest the | | | | New York Times Bestseller List and popularizing |
| seductive arts within fledgling online communities In | | | | pickup and seduction to a broader audience. |
| 1994, Lewis De Payne (associate of hacker Kevin | | | | 2007: Mystery with 2 former students (Matador and |
| Mitnick), then a student of Jeffries, founded the | | | | J-Dog) host their own show "The Pickup Artist" on |
| newsgroup alt.seduction.fast (ASF), spawning a | | | | VH1, where they train a group of "lovable losers" to |
| network of other Internet discussion forums, email | | | | become pickup artists. Season 2 airs in October 2008. |
| lists, blogs, and sites where seduction techniques | | | | 2008-2009: Explosion of online content and media |
| could be discussed and exchanged. Seduction was no | | | | coverage of the seduction community; PUAs get |
| longer local; it was world-wide. | | | | called out on using routines and lines from "The |
| 1990-2000: The creation of an online newsgroup gave | | | | Game" and "that VH1 pickup show!" by women |
| birth to discussions of seduction techniques among | | | | everywhere. |
| gurus, both natural and unnatural. Notable gurus on | | | | To learn more about this you can visit PUA Lingo or |
| these forums included: Juggler (Wayne Elise), Badboy, | | | | check our PUA Openers page. |
| Shark, PlayboyLA (Stephen Nash), Tyler Durden, | | | | |