Love/Hate Reads: ‘Rules for the Game,’ Revisited

Love/Hate Reads: ‘Rules for the Game,’ Revisited

When dedication feels uncommon and everyone’s lonely, Change of Heart is a Valentine’s investigation of what makes relationships so hard—and how they can be better week.

2007 ended up being an objectively terrible 12 months to publish a guide about heterosexual cruising techniques. Internet dating, already extensive, had been moments far from being normalized. An Old Testament flood of hookup apps would populate most everyone’s rapidly-improving cell phones and all but decimate the demand for a guidebook about how to accost attractive strangers in public within a few years. That will be sorts of good! In vacuum pressure, reading about how to conduct intimate and intimate pursuits without iMessage could be refreshing; rather, Strauss spoils this almost-analog throwback with the worst #tbt of most: regressive sex politics!

The Game, Neil Strauss’s Rules of the Game isn’t really a book about sex, dating, or relationships despite being a sequel to his classic pickup artist text. Although the putative objective of the principles is to greatly help your reader get, be successful with, or else attain females, the guide doesn’t always have much to express about ladies as anything except that an endgame. Continue reading “Love/Hate Reads: ‘Rules for the Game,’ Revisited”