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Cockblocked by Redistribution: A Pick-up Artist in Denmark
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 60, Number 4, Fall 2013
- pp. 8-11
- 10.1353/dss.2013.0077
- Article
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Twenty-three-year old Daryush Valizadeh, known to his predominantly heterosexual male fan base as Roosh, is a well-known pick-up artist within the worldwide “Seduction Community,” which relies on pop evolutoinary psychology to teach the art of getting laid. Its origins date back to dubious neuro-linguistic programming “speed seduction” theories in the early 1990s, but the Community rose to prominence with investigative reporter Neil Strauss’s 2005 bestseller expose The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, which spawned a VH1 reality show and drew aspiring “PUAs” to online forums and self -proclaimed gurus promising foolproof seduction strategies.