Best books on dating and attracting the opposite sex?

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Considering that the book has been giving advice how to deal with the opposing sex for almost two millennium, I will say the Kama Sutra.

Considering that the book has been giving advice how to deal with the opposing sex for almost two millennium, I will say the Kama Sutra.

Actually I got no idea, but I will say that my joke suggestion is not a bad choice considering a good part of the text is actually what you ask, for some reason people tend to think the book only contain the picture, that made it reputation, in Occident.

I agree. I read it online many years ago, out of curiosity, and whilst many of the suggestions aren't to my taste, seem bizarre, or are reflective of the culture of the time, there is a lot of good, explicit, and very practical advice about relationships in general and the importance of respect.

It's also quite an amusing read.

Considering that the book has been giving advice how to deal with the opposing sex for almost two millennium, I will say the Kama Sutra.

Actually I got no idea, but I will say that my joke suggestion is not a bad choice considering a good part of the text is actually what you ask, for some reason people tend to think the book only contain the picture, that made it reputation, in Occident.

Definitely not the Kama Sutra.

By Neil Strauss

Amazon.com Review
Are you just another AFC ("average frustrated chump") trying to meet an HB ("hot babe")? How would you like to "full-close" with a Penthouse Pet of the Year? The answers, my friend, are in Neil Strauss's entertaining book The Game. Strauss was a self-described chick repellant--complete with large, bumpy nose, small, beady eyes, glasses, balding head, and, worst of all, painful shyness around women. He felt like "half a man." That is, until a book editor asked him to investigate the community of pickup artists. Strauss's life was transformed. He spent two years bedding some fine chiquitas and studying with some of the North America's most suave gents--including the best of them all, the God of the pickup "community," a man named Mystery.

Mystery is an aspiring Toronto magician who charges $2,250 for a weekend pickup workshop. He is not much to look at: a cross between a vampire and a computer geek. But by using high-powered marketing techniques he's turned seduction into an effortless craft--even inventing his own vocabulary. His technique sounds like a car salesman's tip sheet: his main rule is FMAC--find, meet, attract, close. He employs the "three-second rule"--always approach a woman within three seconds of first seeing her in order to avoid getting shy. Other tricks: Intrigue a beautiful woman by pretending to be unaffected by her charm; also, never hit on a woman right away. Start with a disarming, innocent remark, like "Do you think magic spells work?" or "Oh my god, did you see those two girls fighting outside?" And finally, the most important characteristic of the pickup artist--smile.

After two years, Strauss ends up becoming almost as successful as Mystery, but he comes to an important realization. His techniques were actually off-putting to the woman he ended up falling in love with. And they never prepared him for actually having a relationship. After a while, he ran out of one-liners and had to have a real conversation. Still, The Game is a great read that may help some AFCs come out of their shells. --Alex Roslin

Of all the absolute crap that is out there in the dating advice category of books, this one looks (at least from the reviews) to be a good one for men and women alike, especially those on the autism spectrum due to our natural limits in the "game" department.

From this review, I think it would be an excellent choice for every AS woman to read, in order to understand the mechanism of manipulation that game players use. And, from the male perspective, it seems like the author was able to move beyond being a player.