![]() “It says women are something to be attained and then thrown away. “The Game is marketed on the premise that men are entitled to women’s attention and affection,” she said. None of this reads very well in 2019 and this week, the director of women’s charity Zero Tolerance Rachel Adamson called out UK publisher Canongate for publishing Strauss’s book. Techniques revealed by Strauss – practised long before his book, but never before exposed to such a big audience – included “negging” (making negative comments to lower a woman’s self-esteem so she’ll stay to earn approval) and “cavemanning” (aggressively escalating physical contact). ![]() But his 2005 bestseller, which has shifted more than 3m copies around the world (270,000 in the UK), revealed the secrets of his midlife transformation into a ladies’ man, through time spent in the company of professional pickup artists. ![]() ![]() B efore writing The Game, Neil Strauss was a self-described “lump of nerd”. ![]()
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