Why does the Hobbyist community and the PUA community attract vastly different groups of people if on the surface they appear to have the same goal?

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PS: I don't mean to offend anyone. I am only asking since you guys give insightful answers.

On the surface, it appears that both of them promise you that you'll be like "Toulouse Lautrec lifestyle" a guy who gets laid a lot and lives a type of fun nightlife.


However, in practice, it seems that the opposite is that case not only these two communities don't overlap but they also seem to attract very different groups of people.

The hobbyist community seems to attract guys who have money to pay for sex and have these experiences. At least, from my perspective, most guys seem to be fairly liberal
and don't seem to have any misogynistic ideas. Which is also congruent since we are living a somewhat promiscuous lifestyle. It wouldn't make sense to shame women.

On the other hand, the PUA community seems to attract a lot of broke guys. Hence their only chance of living this "lifestyle" is through their seduction skills. However, being broke
affect their perspective. For instance, no woman is going to want to date a guy who lives with his parents. Hence, many of them struggle a lot trying to bring women but to their place.

Students: It seems to be a lot of the students "graduate" from PUA/dating to become right-wingers/nationalists who believe in traditional values. A lot of them tell me that they got into it, not for sex but to get "validation" from women. Some of these guys are a walking contradiction since they seem to want to hook up with many women but at the same time want a virgin wife.

Coaches: What's unfortunate, is that many of the "coaches" are internet marketers who are only in the "men's dating" space to make money off men.

"Progressive PUA"

It's unfortunate, in practice you can do both, I know cause I have done it. In that I was in Las Vegas, I went I had an SB come over hook up with her and practice my technique. Then I went to the nightclub to try to pick up women and managed to pull a German woman to come to an afterparty.
 
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richaceg

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I'm sure there are talented PUAs and I can say it's a skill...hobbying financial skills is king...and no matter how bad you are in in picking up women or in bed, you can get repeat sex...
 

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Dude of course they're different. This hobby is all about time/money efficiency and clear boundaries between what happens in the room and your "real life".

Pick up artists (if that's even a real thing anymore) have to put in serious time to fuck a girl and based on my limited understanding (having read only the Neil Strauss book) it's largely about "tricking" women.

Hobbying is anything but trickery - the girls know why we're there, we know why we're there, we both know who we are when it's over.
 

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They have the same goal. Their methodology is different. One group goes for it one way. The other group goes for it another way. Your personality would come into play as to which method you prefer.

PUAs are cheaper. Hobbyists are more time efficient.
 
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Frankfooter

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PUA goal is to get sex for nothing, hobbyists at least respect the women enough to pay.
 

Valcazar

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I think there is a lot of overlap from what I can see.
 

Tomoreno

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For PUA there's an excitement of chase, challenge. It takes a lot of skill and psychological knowledge to get into a woman's mind. Knowing exactly what buttons to push is an art in a sense.

All that, unfortunately, is non-existent with hobby.

Dating involves emotions, lots of them. It takes a peculiar type of person to keep playing the game knowing very well it's a 1 way street.

Hobby requires us to be unattached and less emotional.
 

Mr.Know-It-All

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Hobbying is all business while attracting a woman is about physical appearance, personality, psychology, gift of gab, and so on.

There are pros and cons to each. Most women are not pay for play escorts so a hobbyist's pool of women is much more limited than a man with the qualities to pick up women in conventional settings. This drawback is offset to some degree by the "efficiencies" of the pay-for-play option; repeats, time saved from the 'chase', straight to the point of sexual release, etc.

I think there is validity to the theory that lacking funds to participate in the hobby probably induces frustration and anger among some men.
 
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If you want to live the "playboy lifestyle" hobbying its the only way of doing it consistently.

Unfortunately, PUA has way too many limitations that people don't talk about. It more of a number game. For instance, I was with one women the whole day and when we were back at my place
she ended up changing her mind. It was fine with me. However, I had many experiences like this where something random will come up and then you lose out an the experience. Hence I think
hobbying an PUA can complement each other. PUA is more if you want to find a GF or "emotional connections/emotional investment" with women. However, its not the most reliable way of getting laid.
 

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What is PUA?
 

jcpro

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I think that the PUAs are pathetic. They lie to get women in bed. I new a guy who had the whole shtick including Western swag, a Jeep and even cowboy(it was the eighties) boots for going after the Western University girls and, no, he was not a student, there. He only hung out in the bars frequented by the Western girls, did quite well actually, but still... What we do here, there is no deception-except for the married guys, of course. Our cards are on the table, that includes the girls who are the willing participants fully aware of the outcomes and consequences. As for the celebrated PUA "techniques and strategies"-when I was a kid me and my buddy, we used to to get few drinks in us and go bar hopping, hitting at every single girl that cross our path. We never made it to midnight without picking up a girl to take home-both of us. It turned out that the best "strategy" was a simple numbers game.
 

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When I was in university I would tell the artsy female students that I was a communist. It wasn't a lie as I didn't have money at that time.
 
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when I was a kid me and my buddy, we used to to get few drinks in us and go bar hopping, hitting at every single girl that cross our path. We never made it to midnight without picking up a girl to take home-both of us. It turned out that the best "strategy" was a simple numbers game.
what country was it in? Are you getting your poor immigrant life stories confused a little? ROLFMFAO!
 

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PS: I don't mean to offend anyone. I am only asking since you guys give insightful answers.

On the surface, it appears that both of them promise you that you'll be like "Toulouse Lautrec lifestyle" a guy who gets laid a lot and lives a type of fun nightlife.


However, in practice, it seems that the opposite is that case not only these two communities don't overlap but they also seem to attract very different groups of people.

The hobbyist community seems to attract guys who have money to pay for sex and have these experiences. At least, from my perspective, most guys seem to be fairly liberal
and don't seem to have any misogynistic ideas. Which is also congruent since we are living a somewhat promiscuous lifestyle. It wouldn't make sense to shame women.

On the other hand, the PUA community seems to attract a lot of broke guys. Hence their only chance of living this "lifestyle" is through their seduction skills. However, being broke
affect their perspective. For instance, no woman is going to want to date a guy who lives with his parents. Hence, many of them struggle a lot trying to bring women but to their place.

Students: It seems to be a lot of the students "graduate" from PUA/dating to become right-wingers/nationalists who believe in traditional values. A lot of them tell me that they got into it, not for sex but to get "validation" from women. Some of these guys are a walking contradiction since they seem to want to hook up with many women but at the same time want a virgin wife.

Coaches: What's unfortunate, is that many of the "coaches" are internet marketers who are only in the "men's dating" space to make money off men.

"Progressive PUA"

It's unfortunate, in practice you can do both, I know cause I have done it. In that I was in Las Vegas, I went I had an SB come over hook up with her and practice my technique. Then I went to the nightclub to try to pick up women and managed to pull a German woman to come to an afterparty.
Not to hijack the topic, but I am always concerned when "liberal" and "conservative" terms are used. I am a libertarian. I.e., I am pro prostitution, drugs, abortion. But I am also against government handouts, free medical care, large welfare, large taxes, unions, limits to free speech. Am I a conservative or a liberal?
 
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