We all want to attract women, and many of us are willing to go to great lengths to get results. So, it’s on this note that I decided to give the Mystery Method a try. The Mystery Method is the formula for picking up women, made popular on the reality television show called, The Pick Up Artist. I decided to give a few tricks to the trade a try.

1. “Peacocking”. This is one of the tricks to the Mystery Method and it refers to showing up at a club, in some way dressed ”different” or having elements of dress that stand out and cause attention to be placed your way. Hence the reference to a peacock. I showed up in a feather boa, large rimmed glasses, and motorcycle boots which I colored white with shoe paint. I thought the boa was a perfect, if not almost direct representation of the peacock and “peacocking”. What I found, almost immediately, withing the first 30 minutes, was that I was attracting more looks from guys than I was girls. It wasn’t that these guys were attracted to me, it’s that they seemed to want to kick my…. I was really pissing off the majority of males in the club, but it was more of a laughing type of anger. I seemed to be the butt of everyones joke and at the same time they seemed to want to pummel me. This attitude obviously drifted over to the females of the club and scored me zero points in that area. Matter fact I was in the negative, having to somehow dig myself out.

2. “Did you see the girl fight outside”? A popular opening line in the Mystery Method refers to opening up a set of people by lying about a non existent girl fight which took place outside. When I tried this I often got the response: “I’m surprised they didn’t beat your —” One time I did open up a set but was halted a moment later by “dude, whats up with the boa?”, followed with hushed laughter from the group.

While peacocking and set opener’s may have their merit to some degree, I believe at least the former can only be performed in bigger city clubs where more of a freak show environment is tolerable. In the mid west, you can easily become a target, not for female attraction, but for male aggression and ridicule!