So esofaqs dot com has an Amazon affiliate link to a handbook on how to take advantage of women, fyi

I haven't read that, but I wouldn't assume it's harmless. Lots of PUA guides read as like fairly misguided but benign on the surface. But when you dig into them, many tend to contain at least one common theme, with that theme being, "no means yes." Literally seen that over and over.

Like they go into exhaustive detail about how women don't really know what they want, so an explicit, "no," or, "I want to leave," is just a first obstacle to broken through by ceaseless mental pressure. Like staying in a woman's personal space, trying to block her from retreating physically by how you position yourself, continuously asking her over and over, breaking down every explanation ("excuse") she tries to give about why she doesn't want it.

People tend to assume PUA guides are something pathetic, like some bad advice for dumb dudes that will get them nowhere, but that's not actually true. Some of it is profoundly harmful, and it unfortunately does sometimes work.

Girls are like hugely conditioned to be cooperative and to not make too much of a fuss, and like younger women who haven't been burned before often don't know how to recognize this stuff. "I didn't know what to do. I didn't feel like I could leave, so I just said yes. It wasn't technically forcible rape, but I absolutely didn't want it, and I felt really violated." I've heard some variant of that more than once.

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