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The Stink of Desperation

August 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments

I’m putting together two eBooks right now, Seenstr’s Guide to Situational Negging and Seenstr’s Guide to Threesomes.  In each I’ve led with my theory of the stink of desperation.

When you have gone a long time without sexual contact, you begin to acquire the stink. The longer you go, the more you stink.  If you go long enough, you will positively reek of it.

Why do I call it the stink?  Because to an outsider watching someone with the stink interact with a member of the opposite sex, it looks as if an odor is driving the person away.  The closer you get, the farther away they move.

Of course, it isn’t an actual odor.  In fact, it has to do with intuition.  There is no such thing as intuition, at least as you know of it.  What intuition is, really, is a system by which our subconscious mind accumulates, aggregates and analyzes tiny, seemingly insignificant signals given off by someone in close proximity.  We aren’t conscious of what is happening, but our brains have an algorithm that they use to  “crunch” this data and make a quick determination.

So a person may not be giving off any signs indicating who or what they really are — at least none you can identify consciously — and yet we get a sense about them, a feeling that something isn’t quite right.

And it works quite like an odor.  We “smell” it, in a sense.  Sometimes it smells fragrant, nice.  You want to get closer to it and smell it some more.  Sometimes it smells like smoke, instills fear or suspicion, and drives you away.  Sometimes it smells like shit, and makes you ill.

If you have the stink of desperation on you, the best and fastest way to get it off of you is to make yourself un-desperate.  If you stink of sexual desperation, the quickest way to remedy that is to have sex.

Remember that one of the purposes of the neg is to indicate that you are not desperate to hook up with a woman.  You disqualify her and/or yourself from a romantic relationship.  But the key idea is indicating that you don’t really need to sleep with the woman, because hey, you’ve got options.  Similarly, removing the stink of desperation removes those indicators that you subconsciously emit, and which she subconsciously interprets, which indicate that you, in fact, have no options.  They indicate your desperation whether you like it or not.

I have advised people with a bad case of the stink to momentarily lower their standards.  Sex drive, for men, is like hunger.  The longer you go without food, the more desperate you are for anything.  While a nice steak dinner is great when you had a decent lunch earlier in the day, a horse’s ass would be just fine if you haven’t eaten in weeks.  The same applies to sex.  If you stink, go get something to tide you over.  Maybe not a horse’s ass, but at least get something that will prevent you from diving on a horse’s ass if you wait too long.

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3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Ace // Aug 27, 2007 at 12:34 pm

    Momentarily lowering my standards is also something i use to get me into my prime social and talkative frame of self. Also, in a city like providence, there are so many bars near each other that I’ve previously designated a bar as my warm-up. At this bar my goal is just to open and have fun in less attractive sets until I feel im good to go to the next bar. By not worrying about number or kiss closing (because im not really interested in those results with these lower value sets) with these girls I feel as though I set my self up for success with future (more attractive) sets.

    I study psychology for my career - and in my conditioning and learning classes - we studied how the most important aspect of either animal training or patient therapy is to “set the subject up for success.”
    I’ve worked that principle into my game and do everything i can to set myself up for success. I feel the warm-up bar or even just a few warm-up sets is the best way to accomplish this. Start out with small goals (like just to open) instead of feeling broken when you dont get that first target’s phone number.

    Good luck in and out of the field
    Ace

  • 2 The Pickup Artist, Ep. 5 // Sep 4, 2007 at 12:07 am

    […] my post on the Stink of Desperation for a general overview of why subtle, subconscious behaviors over which we have no control are […]

  • 3 Ares // Apr 9, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    Wow!! u realy do understand both man and women.. i been reading several of your post and i gotta say “i’m lovin it” with out these readings i would still be wondering why i cant seem to be getting any…

    But in relation to the article yes our sex drive s like hunger and i admit i have had the stink before and it ain’t to fun but now that i know more about what attracts a women the stink s gone and the smell of spring has finally sprouted thanks : )

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