His baldness (shaved head) worked well for him.
He shaved his head due to a receding hairline.
most likely would have done well at seduction without all his PUA strategies.
Unlikely. Look at him prior to PUA. He was a guy in his early 30s with a decent status job writing for Rolling Stone. Despite his degree from an Ivy League school (Columbia University) and an above average journalism job, women still thought he was complete shiit.
Mystery and the other PUAs turned him from a zero into a attractor-seducer. Mystery did more for him than his Ivy League did for him.
He wrote in his biography that PUA nearly destroyed him, he had a breakdown and was hospitalized.
He's the first to admit now that PUA is not so great.
He was deprived of sex from his teens until his mid-30s. Once he learned how to get sex consistently, he went far with it. It's understandable how he would feel the need to make up for lost time.
Strauss is one of the most successful PUA students of all time.
After getting into a relationship and married model Ingrid De La O, he wrote how he struggled to build and maintain a relationship after his years of immersion in the seduction community.
The marriage lasted five years.
PUA was not the reason his marriage failed. Strauss has been called a major Thrill of the Hunt seducer (see below). Thrill of the Hunt guys are less well suited for monogamy than Pleasure of Sex men or even the typical normie, blue pill, AFC, beta male.
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It's very difficult to have a higher quality monogamous relationship that lasts more than 5 years. Strauss and Ingrid De La O lasted a total of 8 years.