The post below is nearly 8 years old! This is when Mystery began sharing is thoughts, knowledge and experience of picking-up and seducing women.

“Mystery”
Fri, 04 Sep 1998 04:00:00 GMT
newsgroup: alt.seduction.fast
subject: The Greatest ART of Them ALL!

I am a pick-up artist.

I’m not a player, but I have devoted a large portion of my time to the art of seduction. I have read many books, I dress cool, have many girlfriends and believe to be rather charming at times. However, I feel very much alone in this art. My friends do not enjoy the ‘chase’ at all. I attempt to advise them on the reasoning behind the techniques but they just freeze up. I had a tough time going to grips that I am what I just said I am. Why? Well, saying you are one will not increase your chances of getting a woman attracted to you. Truth is though, I have had sex with 56 girls so far (well less, but I include oral sex and other such pleasures as sexual - you know, if you don’t have condoms you can always find other ways to please eachother) and many have been beautiful. I mean 10s! I am very good at what I do. With the risk of sounding arrogant, I am the best pick-up artist I’ve ever met It IS an art. I worked very hard to get good. There are many RULES I may drop here on NG. Please take them only as considerations. They are MY RULES and they have helped me greatly.

My point? I wish I knew other men like myself who enjoy picking up women. For the sport. I enjoy friendly challenges but my friends have all conceded defeat. They enjoy coming out with me for the entertainment value but when they have the opportunity to approach a woman, they freeze up. Its not all that fun. I enjoy their company but cannot LEARN from them. I honestly feel like I am a MASTER at this … not because I can get any woman (that is
not possible when so many variables are outside of my influence) but because he seduction is so controlled and smooth (not sleezy but rather natural). have considered writing a book on it. Thing is, I have made notes on my irls issues on a computer scheduler after every time I went out and I built up a good outline to say the least. My ‘approach’ for the book would be different than the other books in that there is a natural FLOW that takes place. I wrote the stuff more for ME, so I really dont have an interest in writing a book for others. I will however, impart some minor pearls of wisdom from time to time here. I hope I may converse with other artists who truly enjoy the game.

It is a very simple system really

1. find
2. meet
3. attract
4. close

Say it with me, find, meet, attract, close. Find, meet, attract, close.

The details and subtilties however are the meat of the system.

Mystery

Years ago before I was aware of pick-up artists, seduction techniques, and even a underground seduction community, I thought to be successful with women I needed to:

• Treat them very politely: always open doors for them, always buy the drinks and meals, buy flowers, give up your seat for them, etc.
• Always be on time for dates – in fact be early and wait for them.
• Give them your undivided time and patience.
• Don’t let them know you are interested in a sexual way – it will happen it just takes time.
• Only date one woman at a time, and if that doesn’t work out, then, and only then, start looking for another woman.
• etc.

I was a ‘nice’ guy, and guess how successful I was with women? I was an abysmal failure!

None of this being sickly ‘nice’ works! Women like adventure, in the same way men do: they will shag in parks, cemeteries, on trains, in cars, etc. They love being teased, and going emotional roll-a-coaters…

Men tired of being labeled the friend but never the boyfriend can turn to the “seduction community” for help.

A pretty blonde passes by the group of single guys, but they ignore her as she stops to pour milk in her Styrofoam coffee cup.

The dozen men, in their 20s and 30s, are huddled at tables at the back of the St. Laurent Blvd. Cafe. Their attention is directed at the flamboyant 6-foot-5-inch “uber-trainer” from Toronto.

It’s a Friday night in July, and each of the men has paid to spend three days following Mystery (Aka: Erik von Markovik), an illusionist by profession who’s reputed to be one of Canada’s authorities on attracting women.

Mystery is well known in what is loosely called the “seduction community” — an international group of mostly guys who exchange views and dating advice online. Think of it as an interactive “how-to” guide, a male version of women’s dating books or magazines that vaunt “20 ways to get a man.”

Beyond the garish online ads boasting “how to pick up strippers,” the online forums off a place where contrasting seduction methods are debated, using jargon like “AFC” — for average frustrated chump — and “MLTRs” (multiple long-term relationships).

One popular place for these exchanges is an online mailing list of 3,000 run by a Montrealer.

Montreal is also the first Canadian city to follow London, San Francisco and other major cities in setting up clandestine “lairs”, where guys discuss these topics in person. Lairs are invitation-only house meetings that also provide a support network for the men who attend them.

Because of social criticism attached to the notion of “picking up” women and paying for advice on how to meet them, the community remains furtive.

His students have different uses for their skills. Some want a serious girlfriend, while others want to go out with several women simultaneously.

What they usually share is the experience of being hurt romantically — either by a former girlfriend or by a chronic failure to find a girlfriend.

One man, Jack, a Montrealer in his 30s, said he had no problem talking to a woman — only the usual topic of conversation was her problems. For years, he was the “therapist” but never the boyfriend.

That’s when Jack fell into a depression and began doing research online.

He read about Mystery and other experts and joined the Montreal lair, where their ideas debated: “It was amazing to have all these brains focusing on one problem.”

For Mystery, the problem can be rectified through better social skills. Source: http://www.mysterymethod.com/Article.aspx?aid=9

So, am I Mr Nice-Guy now? Yes, sort of! I’m pleasant and respectful of women, but now I’m confident, assertive, and playful with women – which is what they want! Women don’t want overly nice, needy, indecisive, boring men! They want men who are confident, a little cheeky, who can be forward when they need to, who can say no and mean no, who lead the way especially in the bed-room.

This is why the Mystery Method is so effective. It dispels many myths about women and provides simple techniques and tactics that can be used to improve a guy’s chances of successfully meeting and attracting women.

It’s not just about one-night stands or ‘cheating’! It’s about developing ‘women skills’, which most men don’t have!

The excerpt below is from the Lady Killers article in Macleans Magazine, September, 2005. It details some background of the first meeting between Strauss and Mystery.

Strauss embarked on a two-year crash course in advanced womanizing under the tutelage of this ragtag band of gurus, ultimately achieving MPUA (master pickup artist) status in his own right. He chronicles this journey which consumed his life and landed him in field-training workshops in Toronto, Montreal, New York, Belgrade and beyond in explicit and often revolting detail in his controversial new book, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, in stores Sept. 6.

Early on, still feeling a little embarrassed about the whole thing, Strauss took part in an L.A. workshop offered by one of the group’s luminaries, a six-foot-five Toronto-born illusionist named Mystery, whose Mystery Method involves manipulating social dynamics in order to snag the most beautiful woman in any room. It was like seeing The Matrix, he said of that first experience. Everything was so counterintuitive. I learned that the more unavailable you make yourself, the more people would want you. The more you say, stop touching me or I’m taken, or your just not my type, the more they’d actually chase you.

From Mystery, Strauss learned about ‘Peacocking’ (dressing in flashy clothing and accessories to nap women’s attention). He learned how to disarm AMOG (alpha male of the group), and how to deliver an effective ‘neg’. (This is a backhanded insult used on a beautiful woman to demonstrate your lack of interest and to provoke hers. For example: Wow, you’re, like, the fifth person I’ve seen tonight wearing that exact skirt.) As you’re hearing it, you’re thinking, ‘these things would never work on me,’ says Strauss. But the scary thing is having approached thousands and thousands of people it will work on just about everyone. Source: http://www.mysterymethod.com/Article.aspx?aid=10

This just goes to show that any guy, no matter what background, can, with persistent effort and improvement, become successful with women… and become a very successful pick-up artist (PUA).

Fundamentally, it’s all about mind-set! And using Mystery’s techniques and tactics, any guy willing to practice and improve can achieve phenomenal success with women.