> Among the several books I'm currently reading is a Science Fiction
> novel called "The White Queen". In the book a race of telepathic aliens is
> amused that humans pretend that males and females aren't separate species.
> They view reproduction as being symbiosis between the species. Game theory
> would work provided that you could ever determine a player's utility
> function ... It's the three body problem ... once you have more than two
> players, each with their own utility functions you get a combinatorial
> explosion of possibilities....the three bodies being you, the woman, and
> "the relationship". Richard Brodie first posted the www.seduction.com site
> ... which offers NO insight into the dynamics of interspecies interactions,
> but certainly offers some strategies for improving your chances with the
> parasitic components of the symbiosis. It allows you to reduce the problem
> of seduction to a two-body problem by ignoring "the relationship" component.
Readers interested in this aspect of communication breakdowns will want to
read _Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus_. It makes generalizations,
and an individual's mileage may vary, but I think it contains some useful
insights.
Regarding Jeffries' Speed Seduction stuff, I expect that most of his
techniques work, at least on a fair subset of females. The thing that
puzzles me is that he completely skips examining your primary goals,
assuming that the all-encompassing one is to get laid. This may in
fact be true, and, assuming the partners are happy about that too, I have
nothing against it, but it does seem odd not to question that choice of an
overarching ambition.
--Eva