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Any comments on this guy's website/content?

Feel free to take your time to construct a well-balanced opinion... I'm not interested in knee-jerk reactions.

If you're going to take the time to reply, I'd hope you'd be willing to progress past the first page and read the second, possibly even view the video clips of "Dave" giving lectures to eager dating-students.

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We are living in a dating-obsessed market culture, I find. The current "date" fad interests me, especially how it's sold. This guy's selling tips on how to date. He limits his expertise mostly to dating, getting phone-numbers and getting women attracted to... the (slightly) manufactured mass of possibly nerdy, possibly unattractive geeks, or wusses, which is his technical term for a guy who doesn't get dates. (Seriously: don't be a wuss is an explicit message.)

I'm interested in the group's thoughts on his ... product ... like, the immediate impact, or a broader metaphysical exploration, your personal experiences with dating techniques, casual sex, even a certain reluctant admission that -- hell, he's got a point! -- any implicit sexism in his strategy, the demand his books and DVD's might satisfy for gay men, etc.

I'm just interested in others' viewpoints on this broad topic of the dating marketplace, but specifically, as evidenced by "Dave's" dating tips.

Thanks!



PS - Internet dating, and the ways www technology have affected our ways of being social (this web-page included) also interest me, but that's not exactly what this post is about. "Dave's" product is about real-world, in the flesh dating, except marketed almost exclusively through email and word-of-mouth via the internet, and capitalizing on the dating phenom we see on television, elsewhere.