Laura ABJ, I don’t know if your post is intended seriously, but your proposal does seem to raise some obvious concerns. It’s quite plausible that inexperienced men would gain most by improving their overall social confidence rather than naïvely focusing on sexuality. Eliezer’s original post mentions the considerable difficulty of empathizing across a gender gap, and how the “pickup artists” community claims to have a viable solution. These claims should be taken with extreme caution, but what little scholarship exists in this area lends them some qualified credence (See a thesis from the University of Texas, ref. wiki).
Of course if you think that pickup artists are just engaging in dishonest trickery rather than genuinely empathizing, then the above would be irrelevant and patronizing commercial services could be an alternative.
Laura ABJ, I don’t know if your post is intended seriously, but your proposal does seem to raise some obvious concerns. It’s quite plausible that inexperienced men would gain most by improving their overall social confidence rather than naïvely focusing on sexuality. Eliezer’s original post mentions the considerable difficulty of empathizing across a gender gap, and how the “pickup artists” community claims to have a viable solution. These claims should be taken with extreme caution, but what little scholarship exists in this area lends them some qualified credence (See a thesis from the University of Texas, ref. wiki).
Of course if you think that pickup artists are just engaging in dishonest trickery rather than genuinely empathizing, then the above would be irrelevant and patronizing commercial services could be an alternative.