Mystery Method, The “OUTDATED” Way To Pick Up Women

The Mystery Method, put forward by the founder of the seduction community, Erik Von Markovich also known as “Mystery” has been one of the most used methods of picking up women the world has seen. However, with new techniques that are closer to real game being propounded by movies like ‘Hitch’ and the ‘Wedding Crashers’, the Mystery Method has become jaded and has also come under a lot of criticism from institutes of more natural game techniques.  

The Mystery Method covers three basic stages involved in the process of meeting a woman and then taking her to bed—Attract, Comfort (build a comfort level) and Seduce.

However, these stages and various other concepts crucial to the Mystery Method have been minutely examined and criticized by critics and founders of newer game techniques.   

There are certain concepts in the Mystery Method that have come under a lot of criticism like “Negging”, which refers to putting down a woman or insulting a woman that you are interested in so as to lower her “value” in comparison to your own.

According to critics, this reeks of and advocates mistrust and assumed lower value among followers of the Mystery Method. Another technique used in the Mystery Method, “Peacocking”, which refers to emulating the peacock when it comes to attracting attention and therefore using attention catching fashion statements and clothes and accessories that stand out has also been severely rubbished.

Mystery even to this day still peacocks in wild outfits and goggles.

Apart from these concepts of the Mystery Method not being universally accepted any more, an important stage in the Mystery Method, “Comfort” has also come under a lot of flak. According to the Mystery Method, building comfort is important if you want a woman to feel secure with you, spend time alone with you and eventually sleep with you. But critics argue that in a number of relationships, Comfort might come way before attraction or long after seduction has taken place and that it is actually not really necessary to build comfort in order to seduce your target.

Pick up workshops and training institutes nowadays therefore do not advocate the following of any certain method or technique in order to succeed in the art of seduction.

Rather PUA trainers today believe that a potential PUA or pick up artist should learn and absorb all kinds of methods, systems and techniques and learn as much as possible in order to use a combination of all that he has learnt. This would also help PUAs in adapting their knowledge to suit their personalities and characters. 

Nowadays, getting the hang of the principal behind every technique is considered to be more important than learning and applying the technique itself. Mystery method is not the biggest fan of this.

Another major shift that has taken place since the invention of the Mystery Method is the shift towards more natural game techniques, where things may or may not happen in a preplanned stage sequence but instead follow a natural course of action. All these combined factors have rendered the Mystery Method more or less obsolete in today’s world.

I hope you enjoyed my article on the Mystery Method.

Your friend, 

Alex