Considered by many to the most complete book ever written on seduction, The Venusian Arts Handbook, 3 years after its release, still has people talking.
Mystery first came to people’s attention in the New York Times bestseller, The Game by Neil Strauss (Style). But Mystery had been a prominent figure within the seduction community for many years previous. He had written thousands and thousands of posts on the internet; theories, in-field reports and techniques.
The Venusian Arts Handbook contains 10 years worth of learning from the VH1 PickUp Artist, condensed down into an easily to understand, comprehensive guide on meeting, attracting and seducing women.
The most intriguing aspect of the Venusian Arts Handbook is the concept of the M3 Model. The M3 Model breaks down almost any successful interaction men have had or ever will have with women, and leads you step by step through how to approach and meet women. Perhaps the greatest part of the handbook is the breakdown of the M3 model…a sequential mode of the phases of seduction. By sticking to the M3 model, you know what to do and when to do it. So, there’s very little guessing as to where you are in the seduction. It is in many ways a must have companion for any Pick-Up Artist.
Do I neg her, do I kiss her, should I DHV? These nagging questions that plague many a set become obsolete when you’re able to feel exactly where you are in the interaction, because you have been controlling everything from the beginning!
The Venusian Arts Handbook is a must read, and a must have for any budding PUA. The Venusian Arts Handbook breaks down the art of seduction and delivers it in an intelligent, concise and clear manner. Not only is the book and its teachings easy to understand, they’re also easy to implement.

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When a woman says the words, “I have a boyfriend,” nine times out of ten what she is really saying is, ‘You just telegraphed too much interest.”

It has nothing to do with whether she actually has a boyfriend. In fact, if she is attracted to you, she will often deliberately hide the boyfriend from you until after you have had sex with her.

Whether she mentions him or not in no way proves that he actually exists — only that she had a motive to mention him.
Some reasons why women might say they have a boyfriend:

1. She doesn’t have a boyfriend, she’s just saying that because she’s not attracted to you.
2. She does have a boyfriend and given her current options, she has chosen to stick with that relationship.
3. She does have a boyfriend, but she is willing to sleep with you: and she just wants to make sure that you understand her situation first. She wants discretion and understanding. And though she might be available to you for sex. she’s not immediately available for any more of a commitment.
4. She does have a boyfriend, she is willing to cheat on him (they usually are if your game is tight), but she doesn’t want to feel guilty about it. This is her rationalization process at work. As long as she mentions the boyfriend before sleeping with you, she can rationalize to herself that it was “your fault.” Sure, she might regret it later but that won’t stop her from cheating.
5. She doesn’t have a boyfriend, she is attracted to you; she just doesn’t want to look like a loser who can’t get a man. Most hot women have orbiters anyway: nice guys who pose as her friend but secretly want to sleep with her. Since the word “boyfriend” can have so many different meanings, she is thinking of one of her orbiters as a “place-keeper’” when she makes this statement.

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Just before Mystery (Erik Markovik) created the Mystery Method and set-up his business, he had extensive experience in approaching and interacting with women. And it was this experience combined with his infatuation with understanding women that lead to the development of his system and the creation of his company.

Mystery had worked as a close-up magician in restaurants in New York and Toronto while trying to get a job as a magician on a cruise-ship. He credits the experience with helping him to learn the ins and outs of human interactions. Mystery, despite working as a magician, does not have any interest in the supernatural or spiritual aspects of humanity. A term he uses instead of love is ‘pair bonding’, which is when two individuals bond strongly because of the unconcsiouss desire to raise their Survival and Replication value. His illusions are grounded firmly in the laws of physics.

Mystery is credited with a number of important and well-known concepts in the Seduction Community, many of them coming from the world of theater in which he worked as a magician. Terms like “set,” “routine,” “peacocking,” and “the 3-second rule” are his inventions. Mystery also introduced the concept of the infamous ‘neg’, a remark made to snub a potential mate (”target”), telegraph a lack of interest (”false disqualification”), and encourage the target to prove her worth (”qualify”). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Von_Markovik

Like all geniuses in their fields of endeavour, Erik had a combination of traits (including perfectionism and obsession) that lead him to extensively analyze the un-chartered waters of pick-up and seduction. And, from his ground-breaking ebook, the conclusion of his extensive research is that successfully interacting with women, on the surface, has nothing to do with logic but everything to do with triggering emotions!