Share on Tumblr A photo does NOT always prove what a person may claim it means . . . a photo of some guy with an attractive woman does not always mean that he’s had sex with that woman. Sure, the photo could be a photograph of a fellow with a woman he has...
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Share on Tumblr Sometimes a guy in a wheelchair is just a guy in a wheelchair . . . but it seems that for some people, interacting with a person in a wheelchair sets off sympathy motors and thus bypasses their critical factor . . . note a demonstration in terms of KFC who...
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Share on Tumblr As we’ve been discussing on a number of email lists the case of the British hypnotist working in the US who had inappropriate consensual sexual relations with his clients, I thought folks might be interested in a case where the use of waking suggestion is very obvious . . . a...
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Share on Tumblr Kim Murphy reports in the Los Angeles Time (carried elsewhere) about hypnotism in Russia a street-crime weapon? . . . He was striking, with dark eyes, a long black ponytail and a stylish suit. He had a large, cheap ring that Olga couldn’t stop looking at as he waved his hand...
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Share on Tumblr Okay . . . how to get a binlang girl, internet cafe chick,etc. Ran the Man posted a ten point system which involves handing over NT$30,000 for a lady’s undying devotion. There really are easier systems for getting hot women. One, be a hot guy. Two, be a rich guy. Three,...
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Share on Tumblr What it takes to REALLY keep a man (or a woman) is the topic of the day over at Forumosa . . . hmmm. There is a seminar series by Mark Cunningham called Build a Better Girlfriend which addresses some of the issues being discussed here. The guys who went to...
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Share on Tumblr George Lakoff has an interesting take on Our Moral Values as liberals must reposition and reframe their approach so as to combat the Strict-Father ideals of the neocons and religious right. It’s partly a matter of self-critique and parly a matter of reframe and influence. While I don’t buy some of...
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Share on Tumblr I have mentioned this in another post, so a full entry is warranted. Many of you are already aware that I like the public installation work by Spencer Tunick (see the official Spencer Tunick webpages for more). Well, recently, Tunick went to Cleveland for another installation shoot. This is of interest...
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Share on Tumblr A Miami investigative report series has discovered that Bangbus is staged (link NSFW). That is, the models are not actually tricked into sex in the back of a van but are paid performers . . . Local10.com – News – Porn Bus Shoots Sex On The Move . . . of...
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Share on Tumblr More discussion on the Influence Street Patterns Seduction Videos thread on the Hypnosis Technique Exchange. (Images from Wataru’s Street Hypnosis on Gilgamesh Nights.) Guys and Gals are different. However, while women do not look at superficial looks the way men do, it is dangerous to assume that looks mean nothing to...
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Share on Tumblr The Axis of Logic has an excellent essay by Russell M. Drake on the 2004 US Presidential Elections that is really worth reading in terms of influence and persusasion. While some of the statements about hypnosis are a bit over-generalized and certainly not quite what we mean when discuss classic hypnosis,...
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Share on Tumblr I find conversational influence fascinating . . . particularly as it relates to intimate communication. As many of you know, there are folks who devote a great deal of study into Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) and conversational or covert hypnosis as it applies to seduction or intimacy building. Now, hypnosis is a...
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Share on Tumblr Influence is a natural part of being human. We all do it . . . all the time. Of course, some of us are just naturally better at it than others. And some are more ethical. My favorite Roman, Quintillian, once summed up the essence of rhetorical study (communication and influence,...
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Share on Tumblr Robert Cialdini is the king of influence . . . he is the author of pretty much the treatise on influence and how people get others to do things for them. He chose folks who have a lot of success at influence and then followed them around, noting what it was...
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Share on Tumblr Recently on the Hypnosis Technique Exchange HypnosisTechniqueExchange there was a question about Speed Seduction and whether it works. One of the immediate responses was that it crosses the line of ethics and if it were to work it would constitute rape and that someone who uses it could end up in...
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