Pickup Pros

What does magic and picking up women have in common? Would YOU pay two thousand dollars for a three day boot camp to master the art of picking up women, taught by a magician?

Read this article by Casandra Andrews, reporter for the Mobile Register..

The author's seduction-driven existence began about two years ago, he writes, when he started researching a book based on an online guide about how to woo women. That's when he uncovered the underground network of guys looking to improve their chances with the ladies by nearly any means possible: waking hypnosis, sham psychic readings, middle-school magic tricks, etc.

The man who never had a girlfriend in high school writes he was intrigued, and, at times, ashamed, as he found himself falling in with the smooth-talking, commitment-phobic crowd.

"Mystery," a magician from Canada, became one of his closest companions for more than a year, traveling with him to Eastern Europe and Australia to meet and teach the art of the pickup...