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I went to Egypt with my parents as a kid. We went to book camel/horse rides around the pyramids and they locked us in a back room and wouldn't let us leave until we paid for them. Don't ever follow merchants of any kind into back rooms or places where they can prevent your escape. Probably good tourism advice in general Other than that, we had an absolutely lovely time and all the people were great

Even if you’re rich, buying girls stuff early in a relationship would set up a very questionable dynamic

If it’s an even day of the month I watch porn, if it’s an odd day I don’t Honestly I don’t really see what’s so bad about porn, or why it should need to be cut out completely I think it is good to exercise some willpower over it and consume in moderation as with anything though

I actually ran into this issue recently too I started doing jiu-jitsu and I noticed that I got cuts and bled a significantly larger amount than most of the other dudes there, it's quite embarrassing to bleed all over the mats Same thing as you: I've never been very active before, never had many injuries, typically always been more of an at home dude. But I've noticed my skin callousing a lot in the places that tend to get cut/mat-burn when doing jiu-jitsu: elbows, palms, knees, knuckles, feet. Now I progressively get less and less cuts as my skin hardens in those places Basically, your skin is only as hard as it needs to be for your daily activities. It's your body being intelligent about where it puts its energy. You don't get hard skin unless it thinks you need hard skin. Same as muscles. I'm sure there are other tricks you can use to help as well, but I don't really know of any

Yea I'm sure if you were a total cu** you'd attract some girls that way, but if you wanna make the rest of your (and other's around you) lives miserable just for some sex then you have some serious problems to work through Better to just be a well rounded, masculine man without any neediness. Your theory is also wrong in the sense that by trying to not give a fuck, you're actually giving a bigger fuck. The authentic 'not giving a fuck' that girls are attracted to isn't really something you can just start doing, if that's what you had in mind

Of course, I never said otherwise I was more just pointing out hypocrisy. I agree with a lot of her actual points anyway from what I read of them

Well, it would be hard to do spiritual practice in the middle of Times Square in New York for example. Lots of distractions. Looking for somewhere that's quite, peaceful, beautiful, and has many generations of spiritual knowledge accumulated is not a terrible idea I don't think

@Loba Lol, this is itself a below the belt attack

Funny you say that, someone posted here at one point that talking about spiral dynamics with a girl actually got them laid. I can’t remember who or when but someone definitely said it You can get laid talking about anything tbh, it’s rarely about what you say but more how you say it. I’m sure you’ve heard that already though

it’s kind of a silly question, it’s a bit like asking if girls want to be approached by guys with beards the factor that determines whether a girl wants to talk to you is not really your age, there are more important things and it varies per girl unless there’s like a huge age gap, then maybe it will play into it a bit more but I’ve had some good experiences with older women than me so of course some older woman will be into it

Why do you have such an aversion to dudes who have learned the skill? You can learn to express masculinity from your heart I agree with pretty much every word you said bar that part Masculinity is pretty much entirely defined by the experiences it has gone through in life. It’s not really something that a man just ‘has’ naturally

How should men treat women? Many men follow the advice women give about how they want to be treated and then they end up friend zoned and alone It can be extremely confusing. I can’t understand what it’s like to be a woman but you also don’t understand what it’s like to be a man. And the impression I get is that you think the fault lies entirely with men There are horrible realities about men, you’re absolutely right about that. However don’t pretend women are perfect either

I moved out 8 months ago and it was the best decision I’ve made That said… I don’t live especially far from my family and can still see them every so often and I do appreciate that If you do move, make sure you find hobby groups, go out, whatever it takes to make friends or just socialise

Fair enough, of course it differs from person to person. I was over generalising for sure I love loud, crazy, high energy environments. But I struggle to actually be anything other than an observer in them because the moment I’m involved my anxiety dials up to 100

What do you mean what can you do lol? It's called getting rejected, you take it like a man and move on with your life India sounds like a terrible place for doing day gamey street pickup like this honestly

3% is definitely far too low. That would be 1 out of every 33 couples. It's also difficult to quantify anyway because a lot of cheating probably happens in grey areas For example, situations in which two people who are kind of in a relationship but don't really make it official or acknowledge it. Either party would be displeased if the other slept with someone else, but is it technically cheating? I'd imagine this is pretty common I'd say the best approach to cheating is to kind of not really think about it, assume it won't happen and then deal with it appropriately if it does. If you worry about cheating it will make you insecure as hell. But you also need to be clear to yourself on boundaries/consequences if your partner cheats

I'm pretty sure the main reason is that younger guys tend to be more scared of approaching. As you get older you give less fucks what people think of you I don't really see why it should bother you. Hell, if I had older women approaching me left right and center I sure as hell would not be insulted by that

Meh, clubs are actually not that bad. They're so busy that you become anonymous. Your social anxiety acclimates to that quite quickly Moderately busy or quiet venues are a million times worse in terms of anxiety Most social anxiety isn't about the amount of people around you but the amount of eyes on you The problem is that most people with social anxiety also (wrongly) assume everyone is looking at them all the time, so in their head the idea of a club is still very terrifying. It takes a few visits to a club to realise no one gives a fuck about what you're doing for the most part, and that's an incredibly good lesson to learn for socially anxious people

What about if you're a dude who can't get into a relationship or attract girls because of their shy personality or poor looks? Are they as low consciousness as you can get for doing something like pickup?

Nepal is top of my travel list Hoping to go there sometime this year Not even for particularly spiritual reasons, I mainly want to trek and explore the culture/history

yes, words like 'chad' come directly from incel culture and the frame of thinking you had there is extremely incelly

It works fantastically to get attention. Guys have gotta stand out somehow. Even just wearing a bright shirt gets you noticed. Any impression is better than no impression But yea obv you've got to be able to follow it up with some good talking

A good thing to do to build some dress sense is to notice which guys stand out to you when you go out at night. You'll notice that the vast majority of guys make no impression on you whatsoever. Look at the ones who do, and what they're wearing/doing. Those guys will be the ones that girls notice as well That can give you some good ideas

that might be because what you know of the world comes from consuming copious amounts of incel propaganda lol

The problem is that this mindset can encourage you to stick to your comfort zone a bit too much It's super tricky to distinguish between authentically disliking something and just being plain terrified of it If you have some kind of social anxiety your mind will produce every rational excuse in the book to make you avoid social situations and mask the anxiety. '[X] social event just really isn't authentically me' is a deadly one For example if you'd asked me whether I like clubs before I started going, or even the first 5 times I went to one, I'd tell you I hated them. Then I started to really enjoy them. Initially I was just terrified every time I went there and couldn't relax Of course it is possible that clubs just aren't for you, but if you are saying things like 'I HATE going to [X] social place' then that may be an indicator that it's out of fear rather than a genuine dislike of it