In response to the disagreement over the ethics of gaming a girl with a BF:
I don't know how I feel about this to be honest and have been thinking a lot about it. But she is very beautiful, and so for the moment, I'm going to keep going. Here's my inner struggle:
The pro argument
Gaming a girl with a boyfriend ultimately teaches men a lesson and liberates them from a low quality woman. It teaches them a lesson in that whatever they were doing was not sufficient to hold the woman's attraction. It teaches them to make better choices about who they date. I have never cheated on a girl, but I did have a girl cheat on me. At the time I wouldn't have said this, but thank God she did! I was engaged to the broad and if I hadn't found out she had been cheating, I would have freaking married a girl who was disloyal and untrustworthy. A low quality woman.
My cheating revelation was also the first major impetus behind me deciding to improve myself which lead me to the PUA culture. I was Mr. AFC when I was with her, weighed 206 pounds and was a mass of blubber. I had no life outside of having sex with the girl and sporadically attending class (I was smart enough to maintain a 4.0 during all this though). And to a lot of guys, continuous sex sounds like a goldmine (especially when it's with a 9), but it's not. The sex sucked.
I found out about this and subsequently left her in 2008. Since then, I've dropped to 168 pounds with less than 10% body fat, maintain a daily exercise practice, hike, rock climb, ballroom dance, power lift, and do all kinds of stuff I never did before because I didn't care. Her cheating on me allowed me to experience life.
I also feel that sex is basically an exchange, and that both parties must be agreeable to the act in order for it to take place. The fact that she has a relationship (aka, an "contractual" obligation to abstain from sex with other people) with someone else is not my concern. I have no "contractual obligation", and if she finds herself in breach of contract, it's her fault. She is the one who made the decision, and while I may be complicit, I never made any such agreement to abstain from sex.
The con argument
A lot of PUA people make references to evolutionary biology and psychology and say that men are genetically driven to bang the hell out of every woman they can in order to literally spread their seed as far in to the future as possible. And I would say on a superficial level, that's very true. Even an instinctual level. But I'm uncomfortable generalizing this view to be the guiding source of our behavior because it assumes that there is no fundamental difference between homo-sapiens and all other animal life. And there's a big difference:
The neocortext.
We are the only species with this cerebral component, and it's what causes us to be conscious, aware, and "human", while all other animals are clearly not. That's not a very precise explanation, but I think you get my point. Yes, it may be evolutionary wired in to us to sow our seed every which way, but the conditions that produced that evolutionary response don't necessarily exist anymore.
We developed these instincts during prehistoric times, before the advent of "the city", while humans lived in nomad tribes and a man's immortality rested in his ability to get one of the tribal women knocked up. Read the Epic of Gilgamesh, Greek mythology, or anything else like that you should have read in your senior high school English class or Humanities in college! Those are not stories people penned in modern times about the past, they're stories people wrote in the past that represented their present.
Now fast forward several thousand years... we're not a collection of warring tribes, the Hittites, Scythians, and so on, we're "civilized" and are generally more concerned with finding a good job, true love (whatever that means), a 401k, social security, the government, wasting our money, playing Xbox. Whatever. But I have never met one man ever in my life who wakes up in the morning thinking to himself that he has to get a girl knocked up TODAY or his life is going to be a waste.
The comforts of modern civilization have made it easier for the human population to survive, and the prehistoric mindset may be more prevalent in 3rd world and undeveloped countries. I don't know.
But since it's become much easier for the human species to survive (provided we can escape nuclear holocaust, giant meteor, plague or other doomsday scenario) it's also not really as necessary evolutionarily for men to serially impregnate women. Believe it or not, it's actually worse for a population (because populations evolve, not individuals) to have a low ratio of men (20%) mating with a high ratio of women (80%) because this significantly limits the propagation of genetic material. Under a scenario like this, 80% of men are not mating and NOT passing on their genetic material... this represents genetic loss and may result in genetic extinction... when a gene totally vanishes from a population. That's bad because it limits the genetic options for future generations. It's much better to have as close to a 50/50 ratio as possible.
So why am I saying all of this? I do not believe adaptations come without selective advantages. If they didn't provide a selective advantage, they would be selected out of a population over time. So why do we have this thing called a neocortex that lets us think in ways that make us different from every other animal? Maybe it's because we're supposed to use it to think and ACT different than every other animal.
I realize this idea flies in the face of most prevailing PUA material, but it's something I've been thinking about today. When men go around and facilitate promiscuity, they're justifiably pissing their fellow man off. This tends to lead to a justifiably negative reaction, sometimes violence. Actions that are likely to produce a negative and possibly violent reaction do not seem to me like actions that are evolutionarily beneficial, or beneficial to a population at all.
And I know what it feels like to be cheated on. It feels awful. It makes you feel like you aren't quite fully a man. And this brings us back around to the pro's argument.
So I don't know. This has just been what's going through my mind today.