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Aella, who is famous on the internet and also does OF/escorting in SF [you can find her nudes easily] said this a while ago:

All I want is a guy I just met to casually and confidently touch me on the arm or back, lean in with direct attention, unwavering eye contact, and then spend the rest of the night flirting with my friends.

I just want to slightly insult him and have him slightly insult me in return. I want him to be a little assertive, all the time, and completely comfortable with that.

...I want him to enjoy me but be uncertain about me; I want to be unsure if I am good enough for him.
I want him to be completely, deeply, and unapologetically comfortable with himself and his desires. I want to somehow possess some rare jewel of a trait in my soul that he has been waiting his whole life to find.
Including this first level move, although you’ll usually need a different framing. Again, she is in the SF area so mostly dates tech and tech-adjacent men.

Aella: One of the hottest things a guy on a first date ever said to me was "I estimate 15 percent that I’ll end up interested in seriously dating you."
All a girl wants is to feel like she has to work in order to catch a guy.

Note how much of this aligns with standard PUA advice: Eye-contact, confidence, touch, teasing, backturns, push-pull.

Her substack also does some very fun sex/dating surveys many of which she posts on twitter and various places for free to read, or to participate in. She has some very large data sets that are sex and kink-related.

Biggest surprise to me in one of them surveyed porn usage and what men v women like in their porn: Women like rough, violent porn more than men for virtually any level of 'rough.'
Of course, that's not the same as IRL where I assume many of the women who enjoyed watching very rough porn would not want it that hard, but shows the stereotype in the media is false.

Anal is actually maybe one of the few exceptions here; in general, women are significantly more inclined to like rough porn than men are - but anal is one of the biggest gender gap preferences in favor of men. Way more men like anal sex than women do.
 

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Aella, who is famous on the internet and also does OF/escorting in SF [you can find her nudes easily] said this a while ago:


Including this first level move, although you’ll usually need a different framing. Again, she is in the SF area so mostly dates tech and tech-adjacent men.



Note how much of this aligns with standard PUA advice: Eye-contact, confidence, touch, teasing, backturns, push-pull.

Her substack also does some very fun sex/dating surveys many of which she posts on twitter and various places for free to read, or to participate in. She has some very large data sets that are sex and kink-related.

Biggest surprise to me in one of them surveyed porn usage and what men v women like in their porn: Women like rough, violent porn more than men for virtually any level of 'rough.'
Of course, that's not the same as IRL where I assume many of the women who enjoyed watching very rough porn would not want it that hard, but shows the stereotype in the media is false.
I love Aella's stuff. I find her hugely insightful. Her "How To Be Good At Sex" series is a must read. Good shout man.
 

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The irony of getting advice from women like her, porn star level, is that they are just saying what they turned down in the past. Everything she listed, there are guys who have done at least some of those things, and she likely turned them down. She now has gotten wise and wants that to happen to her. What she is not saying is that she reached the point of her life to settle down and wants to be treated like a princess. Notice how in most of what she said, it is romance.

Do not fall for it.
 

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The irony of getting advice from women like her, porn star level, is that they are just saying what they turned down in the past. Everything she listed, there are guys who have done at least some of those things, and she likely turned them down. She now has gotten wise and wants that to happen to her. What she is not saying is that she reached the point of her life to settle down and wants to be treated like a princess. Notice how in most of what she said, it is romance.

Do not fall for it.
lol shush. Her advice is solid.
 

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lol shush. Her advice is solid.
I apologize, but the one thing I never do is take advice from women when it comes to the art of seduction and intimacy. And I try to teach other men the same thing. When a woman is telling men what she wants, always take it with a grain of salt. What women want changes with the tide. She says for instance, she wants someone to insult her, but there will be a day when she doesn't want it. She says she wants to be touched, but there will be a day when she doesn't want to be touched. She says she wants eye contact, but there's going to be a day when she's annoyed by that. None of her advice actually is relevant to anything useful. Feels like we're reading one of those female romance books. Just missing the doctor or secret werewolf.
 

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I apologize, but the one thing I never do is take advice from women when it comes to the art of seduction and intimacy. And I try to teach other men the same thing. When a woman is telling men what she wants, always take it with a grain of salt. What women want changes with the tide. She says for instance, she wants someone to insult her, but there will be a day when she doesn't want it. She says she wants to be touched, but there will be a day when she doesn't want to be touched. She says she wants eye contact, but there's going to be a day when she's annoyed by that. None of her advice actually is relevant to anything useful. Feels like we're reading one of those female romance books. Just missing the doctor or secret werewolf.
It’s relevant if it conforms with what i’ve experienced with women personally, what i’ve seen them respond to and landed me the pussy consistently. That when trading notes with other seducers has conforms with their experience too.

Does what she say not conform with your lived experience with women? If not how so?
 

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https://knowingless.com/ is her old blog (still open, but historic)
Great blog.

I've read her articles about polyamory and found they resonate with me. Trying to read the one about LSD right now but it's a hard read. Maybe that's because I've never tried LSD myself. (I'm open to it but never really had the chance.)

Definitely a smart girl.
 
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I apologize, but the one thing I never do is take advice from women when it comes to the art of seduction and intimacy. And I try to teach other men the same thing. When a woman is telling men what she wants, always take it with a grain of salt. What women want changes with the tide. She says for instance, she wants someone to insult her, but there will be a day when she doesn't want it. She says she wants to be touched, but there will be a day when she doesn't want to be touched. She says she wants eye contact, but there's going to be a day when she's annoyed by that. None of her advice actually is relevant to anything useful. Feels like we're reading one of those female romance books. Just missing the doctor or secret werewolf.
I don't expect anyone to take my advice but it's nice when a woman feels heard by men too. It is true that a woman's desires will change over time. And if the romance or her attraction for you dies, then her desires for you can die as well. Both of you have to work to keep the flame alive.

Pleasure and romance are fleeting, as is life, so enjoy them while you have them...If you cannot keep a woman satisfied enough and adapt to her changes/vice versa, don't be surprised if she stops desiring you. Am I wrong about all this?

When she stops wanting those things (presumably from you), put her next to a new man and I guarantee you she will probably want a lot of those things again.

As for Aella, yes it seems she wants to settle down - she offered 100k to have someone find her a husband, and 300k to whoever could find her someone to impregnate her and pay her to be a single mother, sole custody. But this is pretty niche, not exactly princess treatment.

 

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It’s relevant if it conforms with what i’ve experienced with women personally, what i’ve seen them respond to and landed me the pussy consistently. That when trading notes with other seducers has conforms with their experience too.

Does what she say not conform with your lived experience with women? If not how so?
They responded to your overall attraction. You could have tied her up and slapped her and she probably would react similarly. Extreme example, but she is not saying anything that will increase attraction with her. If you got her in the mood to be touched, you already are "in." You do not have to play that game of building up attraction any further. That is what is missing here.

I don't expect anyone to take my advice but it's nice when a woman feels heard by men too. It is true that a woman's desires will change over time. And if the romance or her attraction for you dies, then her desires for you can die as well. Both of you have to work to keep the flame alive.

Pleasure and romance are fleeting, as is life, so enjoy them while you have them...If you cannot keep a woman satisfied enough and adapt to her changes/vice versa, don't be surprised if she stops desiring you. Am I wrong about all this?

When she stops wanting those things (presumably from you), put her next to a new man and I guarantee you she will probably want a lot of those things again.

As for Aella, yes it seems she wants to settle down - she offered 100k to have someone find her a husband, and 300k to whoever could find her someone to impregnate her and pay her to be a single mother, sole custody. But this is pretty niche, not exactly princess treatment.
You are wrong. You are the fish trying to tell the fisherman how to catch and keep you around. When it comes to any serious discussion, I give zero trust in what women say. Not out of rudeness, but because we do not mix in how we approach intimacy. Basically, we are two hunters from two different camps. We should never mingle in strategy of how to get the other. You do not see me going onto the women over 30 subreddit and telling them how they can attract a man.

As for this Aella, she is acting like a man. Nor will she ever find the person she wants. Men do not care about a woman's money. Only the manchilds do, and Aella does not want them. The man she wants already makes that amount of money and/ or has access to far younger and prettier women. Less used women, and basically the entire global world market. I will be going to London sometime this year where there are plenty of women waiting for me. Even if Aella walked up to me on the street and said she will give me 300K, I will turn her down and just tell her to invest in my business plan instead. There are better options.

You cannot buy men.
 

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They responded to your overall attraction. You could have tied her up and slapped her and she probably would react similarly. Extreme example, but she is not saying anything that will increase attraction with her. If you got her in the mood to be touched, you already are "in." You do not have to play that game of building up attraction any further. That is what is missing here.


You are wrong. You are the fish trying to tell the fisherman how to catch and keep you around. When it comes to any serious discussion, I give zero trust in what women say. Not out of rudeness, but because we do not mix in how we approach intimacy. Basically, we are two hunters from two different camps. We should never mingle in strategy of how to get the other. You do not see me going onto the women over 30 subreddit and telling them how they can attract a man.

As for this Aella, she is acting like a man. Nor will she ever find the person she wants. Men do not care about a woman's money. Only the manchilds do, and Aella does not want them. The man she wants already makes that amount of money and/ or has access to far younger and prettier women. Less used women, and basically the entire global world market. I will be going to London sometime this year where there are plenty of women waiting for me. Even if Aella walked up to me on the street and said she will give me 300K, I will turn her down and just tell her to invest in my business plan instead. There are better options.

You cannot buy men.
i have no idea what you’re talking about, but it reminds me of the red pill bravado i see on twitter..
 

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i have no idea what you’re talking about, but it reminds me of the red pill bravado i see on twitter..
Ironically, I do not partake in any "redpill" stuff. This is from lived experience. You are free to ask me questions if you need more clarification. I figure that's why we're here anyway.
 

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We should never mingle in strategy of how to get the other. You do not see me going onto the women over 30 subreddit and telling them how they can attract a man.
I know that we are different and agree that we should not mix strategies, but is understanding each other not important? That's why fb/reddit groups such as "Women asking for advice from Men" and "Men asking for advice from Women" exist. But if you quickly peruse each group, there is a ton of extreme bias on both sides. There is also, selectively, some good advice on both sides.

I'm not here to tell men what to do. But I also don't expect men to read my mind. I'm sharing my story, experiences with men, and my perspective and trying to understand men more. If that is not of any value, feel free to disregard.

I haven't had much trouble keeping men I wanted who were/are somewhat normal. However, when it comes to top level seducers (300-500+ lay count/dating coaches/MPUAs), those are the men I don't quite understand yet. Maybe I won't ever understand, and that's okay too.

As for this Aella, she is acting like a man. Nor will she ever find the person she wants. Men do not care about a woman's money. Only the manchilds do, and Aella does not want them. The man she wants already makes that amount of money and/ or has access to far younger and prettier women. Less used women, and basically the entire global world market. I will be going to London sometime this year where there are plenty of women waiting for me. Even if Aella walked up to me on the street and said she will give me 300K, I will turn her down and just tell her to invest in my business plan instead. There are better options.

You cannot buy men
She's not offering the man she wants to be with money, she offered it to the matchmaker to find her a provider husband or to find a guy to impregnate her and pay her to be a mother/sole custody.

There are actually men out there who want to expand their progeny and not be involved as a parent or have minimal responsibility, but it's a very niche market.

But I agree, we can't buy the traditional man.

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Anyways, on topic, what Aella wrote are things that have worked to seduce me in the past (given that he has his fundamentals down too), and it seems that other men here agree.
 
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I definitely find some female insights worthwhile, but it probably requires a certain level of understanding and internal frame to be able to interpret it.

This week I had a vitriolic case of auto rejection. She went off on how her ex was a multimillionaire and no accomplished woman would want a guy who has an unfurnished apartment.

I thought to myself, sick... The boyfriend disqualification's working.
 
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Biggest surprise to me in one of them surveyed porn usage and what men v women like in their porn: Women like rough, violent porn more than men for virtually any level of 'rough.'
Of course, that's not the same as IRL where I assume many of the women who enjoyed watching very rough porn would not want it that hard, but shows the stereotype in the media is false.
That is very interesting indeed. Two of the women I know who very openly talked about enjoying porn/masturbating absolutely enjoyed rough sex, much more so than anything vanilla. I never asked them what kind of porn they watched, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all! Could definitely be a correlation there that I never even thought about.

I’ve never heard of her/her page but I’ll definitely have to give it a read. Always interesting to see things from a woman’s perspective.
 

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Going through her posts (which are really good), I found an ad for this: https://www.slutcon.com/

Mind slightly blown lol.

Seems to be an event organized by Aella or her affiliates. I do like the "sex positivity" aspect of it, but paying thousands of $s for some flirt practice with professionals? Not so sure about that lol. I can have "flirt practice" for free, with natural girls, any day of the week. And so can most ppl on this forum.

That said, if you've got some money to burn, it sounds like it might be a fun experience.

So, anyone going? ;)

(this is not an advertisement, i'm just curious about ppl's opinions. Feel free to delete if it's deemed inappropriate)
 

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I know that we are different and agree that we should not mix strategies, but is understanding each other not important? That's why fb/reddit groups such as "Women asking for advice from Men" and "Men asking for advice from Women" exist. But if you quickly peruse each group, there is a ton of extreme bias on both sides. There is also, selectively, some good advice on both sides.

I'm not here to tell men what to do. But I also don't expect men to read my mind. I'm sharing my story, experiences with men, and my perspective and trying to understand men more. If that is not of any value, feel free to disregard.

I haven't had much trouble keeping men I wanted who were/are somewhat normal. However, when it comes to top level seducers (300-500+ lay count/dating coaches/MPUAs), those are the men I don't quite understand yet. Maybe I won't ever understand, and that's okay too.
I am aware of those groups you mentioned, and I find them equally useless and hilarious. They are a good example of the fish trying to teach the fisherman analogy.

She's not offering the man she wants to be with money, she offered it to the matchmaker to find her a provider husband or to find a guy to impregnate her and pay her to be a mother/sole custody.

There are actually men out there who want to expand their progeny and not be involved as a parent or have minimal responsibility, but it's a very niche market.

But I agree, we can't buy the traditional man.

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Anyways, on topic, what Aella wrote are things that have worked to seduce me in the past (given that he has his fundamentals down too), and it seems that other men here agree.
She could easily find that guy for free. She is looking for a unicorn. I am 99.9% sure she has men ready to do all of that for her. No, she wants the guy she failed to get. I normally do not like discussing this topic with women, but I am giving you an exception to be fair in this thread. But even doing that is continuing to prove it is not possible to have this kind of talk with a woman. Because despite everything you said, you hardly thought about the fact, or at least took for granted, that men are constantly trying to get women's attention 24/7. I am going to assume by your name that you are asian. Assuming you are at least averagely attractive, you have had men coming onto you since you were a young girl. So to you, it is almost a given, so you take it for granted. However, unlike men who would explain this experience, to you, it's not even worth bringing up in this discussion because you do not care for it.

This is why men and women cannot socialize over these topics. You are unable to due your biological existence.

And no, what she wrote did not seduce you. It was the man who you thought was good enough for you, with all his traits, that seduced you. And not every man will be that for you. I doubt a fat man working at mcdonalds would even get close to you to be able to do all of that. Because again, you take attention for granted, so you can't even make that deduction. You had two posts to do so, and not once did it come up.

You should know that as a woman based on the amount of men you have ignored in your life. And I know you know that if you are trying to have this debate in the realm of this type of forum. But you are unable to due precisely because: you are a woman.

Going through her posts (which are really good), I found an ad for this: https://www.slutcon.com/

Mind slightly blown lol.

Seems to be an event organized by Aella or her affiliates. I do like the "sex positivity" aspect of it, but paying thousands of $s for some flirt practice with professionals? Not so sure about that lol. I can have "flirt practice" for free, with natural girls, any day of the week. And so can most ppl on this forum.

That said, if you've got some money to burn, it sounds like it might be a fun experience.

So, anyone going? ;)
I've seen these things before. Girls over 30 subreddit and similar forums have women doing similar things: acting like men by using money to try to lure men. But they don't want just any man. They want the man they failed to keep with any of the traits they possess.

By default, a young girl with a pretty enough face, men will throw money and attention to her. If a woman loses traits that made that easy for her, these modern women in the US will try to use money to get the man instead. But if you think about it, her ceiling for the man she can get has fallen. She can no longer get the rich doctor unless he is a lonely older man who wants anyone he can get. But anyone who has doctor friends knows that they typically get better girls than the average high tier man. Then you have stock market, finance, and STEM bros who, despite making similar money, are unable to get women, so they have more of a tendency of settling with women that aren't perfect. At the same time, you cannot buy them as they are making money anyway.

Teaching women to flirt is such a waste. Women like this are refusing to double down on being more of a woman. All of them act like rebellious men. Talk to any of them, and they are all like that. I call them failed women.
 

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Aella is interesting character. She is genuinely smart and interesting, but has some gaping blind spots in her area of expertise (which I think is evidenced by her struggle to find a husband to her liking in spite of being solid looking, wealthy and with large network). Also having watched video interview there was something off about her, something about her spirit which felt lacking, which I find (no offense to some here) to be the case for most people who are extremely analytical about sex.

Still a good or at least interesting resource and I wish her well.
 
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