A man has two primary drives in early adulthood: one toward power, success, and accomplishment; the other toward love, companionship, and sex. Half of life then was out of order. To go before them was to stand up as a man and admit that I was only half a man.

— Neil Strauss The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (2005)

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