The Passive Man's Guide to Seduction [Paperback]

Franklin Parlamis (Author), Eric Weber (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0914094750 | ISBN-13: 978-0914094753 | Publication Date: July 1, 1996

Discover how to tap into the psyche of today's woman and attract her without doing a damn thing! The Age of Passivity: At last, a seduction strategy for the end of the millennium. Throughout this dramatic century, men have taken a healthy fall from patriarchy to passivity, and women have moved from suffragists to seducers. Women are not simply "equals" anymore; they've become the aggressors. They're the ones who insist on being in control. So, what should a guy do about it? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. You don't need a line, you just have to be yourself. Too hokey to be true? Not in this age of the passive man. Franklin Parlamis explains in this amazing new book, The Passive Man's Guide to Seduction, how a man embracing his latent passive nature will lure women like moths to a flame. Parlamis taps into the psyche of the woman of the 90's and shows us why attracting women has never been easier. Gone are the days of pseudo-studs tossing out one-liners and flashing their bills. Effortless is cool. Naturalness is in. Parlamis explains how it's all revealed in the unbelievable power of passivity. It's all about letting a woman's natural energy work to your advantage. Concerned about attracting women without compromising yourself? Don't worry, be passive, and attract women without doing a damn thing!

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The "chess" Chapter: ...My friend Becker and I started hanging-out in this bar after work. It was kind of a mellow bar, nothing too fancy, but for some reason there were a whole lot of really attractive women there. Too bad we never talked to them. We had been coming to the bar for three months, and in that whole time, we spoke with about three women. I say "about" three because, when you're up that high, it's difficult to remember the exact number-it might have been four. We could have been sitting home, drinking Old Milwaukee at $3.00 a six pack, instead of Heineken at $3.00 a beer. We would have met the same amount of women! In fact, every time we drank Old Milwaukee, we could have put $2.50 in a coffee can, saved up for a couple of months, then taken all the money we had saved and blown it on a really expensive night. Our chances of scoring on that one night would probably have been higher than on all the nights in that bar combined. Moreover, we could have been playing chess. At least then we would be doing something interesting with our evenings. But the whole idea seemed sketchy. Play chess for two months straight in squalor, then go out one night and maybe get laid. Then start the whole cycle all over again. It was all too regular, like a woman's period-and if we didn't score on our one appointed night, it would have been just about as traumatic as missing a period. Too much pressure...no, not for us. "Wait a minute," I screamed at last. "Why don't we play chess in the bar?" Utter silence. I might as well have suggested that we bust out our old Dungeons & Dragons book and sit around in the bar drinking Pepsis and eating Doritos. The ideas wasn't as bad as all that, though, and the more we thought about it, the more it seemed to make sense. So we tried it out. Let me tell you right now it worked. It worked so well that it even makes my Dungeons & Dragons scenario seem like a pretty damn good idea.... By the time Becker returned with the first beers of the evening, a young woman, Vera, had already approached the table to see what we were up to. Three months we had been coming to this bar, and not once had a woman approached us of her own volition. In retrospect, I know why. No woman ever had a reason to. What would she possibly have said, "Hey, I just noticed that you two gentlemen both have all your fingers...and two ears each. Plus you're wearing shirts and I think that's cool. By the way, I'm Vera." In an Ironic way, the chess board provided the type of "flash" I talked about earlier...Even though we were making terrible blunders, Vera didn't notice. She was too into talking with the chess geniuses she had met at the bar.... Author's note: It does not matter how good you are at chess. Ask yourself two questions: 1) what are the chances that a woman you meet in a bar will actually know anything about chess? 2) if she does, do you really want to go home with her? The conclusion is clear: proficiency is not mandatory....

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Symphony Press (July 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0914094750
• ISBN-13: 978-0914094753
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,523,269 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars content has nothing to do with title, April 20, 2001

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This review is from: The Passive Man's Guide to Seduction (Paperback)

I am always interested in dating/relationship books, but this one, unfortunately, has nothing to do with either subject. The title is very misleading. It gives way too much commomn sense that a school-yard child knows already. Nice cover, but that's all there is to it. Between the covers are things you already know. For instance: Always be nice to women, talk sexy to them (yeah, okay! try that if you don't have the looks to back it up) and many silly things women would laugh at. Save your money, and move on. This will only hurt your chances, plus your wallet if you shell out money for this. I was annoyed and pi**ed that there was so little here. The authors should do their homework before trying to sell a book on the subject. Guys want something that makes sense...and that work.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of grey matter storing this stuff, April 19, 2001

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Rick Cain "Rick" (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Passive Man's Guide to Seduction (Paperback)

Parlamis is just another huckster preying upon the socially inept. This 'big print' book (apparently done to flesh it out to 100+ pages) is a rambling mess. Little is given in terms of useful information other than ways to pretend you are Tom Hanks and play chess at a bar, presumably to pick up women. The book reads as if it was hastily written on a weekend using nothing more than a 24-pack of light beer, a selectric typewriter, and 6 packs of lucky strikes.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What a ripoff!, January 8, 2001

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140 page pamphlet. Huge type. Full of long, rambling...quotes that have nothing to do with the topic.

What little advice it does offer is moronic -- such as pretend to play chess, paying little attention to the game. This is supposed to make you look irresistibly smart to stupid women (author states that you wouldn't want to go home with a woman who knows enough about chess to recognize what you are doing anyway!")

Save your money! This is the first "book" so lacking in value that I went thru the hassle of returning it.