Wicky goes to charm school -- for a severe case of
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Wicky goes to charm school -- for a severe case of
Wicky had a rough Friday night picking up women on the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel balcony after being coldly rejected by two attractive blonds. It seems he suffers from an acute case of "premature ejectulation" -- ejecting himself early from promising conversations with women for fear of rejection. Such was the diagnosis from the coaches of "Charm School Boot Camp," a three-day crash course on seducing women that Wicky paid $1,600 apiece for in early August. Wicky is not the only man with crippling fears when it comes to chatting up women. That's why Charm School, run by a Philadelphia, PA-based company called Get-It-Up, has no problem finding men who need intense guidance and fieldwork approaching women at places like bookstores and bars. "People think we're teaching guys with no confidence who are bad with women," said Get-It-Up co-founder Mike Atteson. "We teach guys how to be themselves in a very unnatural environment, how to cold approach strangers and make them comfortable enough to open themselves up."
Get-It-Up's lesson plan stays away from canned lines and instructs men to think on their feet when talking to women, to put their insecurities aside and react naturally to a women's subtle cues, said WestSideBilly, a Get-It-Up instructor. The class starts on Friday afternoon with the instructors going over Atteson's attraction theory. They then practice the theory by approaching each other as if they were women, and they do word association exercises to get their minds tuned into keeping a conversation with a woman rolling. After a night approaching women at a bar or club, the instructors hold a debriefing the next morning and go over what the participants did right and wrong. Then they head out again to hit on more women. "This was something I was willing to splurge on," said Wicky. "I live in a city with millions of women, and I want to meet some of them."
Just a day into charm school, Wicky says he has begun to absorb some of its tenets, like honestly justifying to the women why he has approached them, genuinely stating their uniqueness, then making slight, gentlemanly physical contact, like a touch of the arm at just the right time. "I would say in terms of last night's performance, I've definitely found my path to fulfillment," he said. "Last night I felt uncomfortable, but I've taken in what they've taught me. I've been myself, and it's worked."
Get-It-Up's lesson plan stays away from canned lines and instructs men to think on their feet when talking to women, to put their insecurities aside and react naturally to a women's subtle cues, said WestSideBilly, a Get-It-Up instructor. The class starts on Friday afternoon with the instructors going over Atteson's attraction theory. They then practice the theory by approaching each other as if they were women, and they do word association exercises to get their minds tuned into keeping a conversation with a woman rolling. After a night approaching women at a bar or club, the instructors hold a debriefing the next morning and go over what the participants did right and wrong. Then they head out again to hit on more women. "This was something I was willing to splurge on," said Wicky. "I live in a city with millions of women, and I want to meet some of them."
Just a day into charm school, Wicky says he has begun to absorb some of its tenets, like honestly justifying to the women why he has approached them, genuinely stating their uniqueness, then making slight, gentlemanly physical contact, like a touch of the arm at just the right time. "I would say in terms of last night's performance, I've definitely found my path to fulfillment," he said. "Last night I felt uncomfortable, but I've taken in what they've taught me. I've been myself, and it's worked."
