"The Manipulated Man" by Esther Vilar

Esther Vilar's classic polemic about the relationship between the sexes caused a sensation. Vilar's perceptive and often very funny look at the battle between the sexes has earned her death threats. But Vilar's intention is not misogynous: she maintains that only if women and men look at their place in society with honesty, will there be any hope for change.

As of this posting, the book is no longer listed on Amazon dot com or their subsidiary sellers. I strongly recommend that if you're interested in a physical copy you consider alternatives stores, such as Barnes and Noble booksellers. If you're curious to just check out the book, consider The Internet Archive, The Open Library, Youtube, or your own preferred media websites.

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@failureneedhelp345

29 years old and suck with women. In dire need of some good advice. Im ready to do whatever it takes

Im going to keep it short since my story is probably no different than most of the guys in this community. I wasted my teens and twenties on excessively consuming instant gratification (porn, masturbation, tv, and junk food). As I get closer to 30 I realized I did not like where I was heading. In the past couple of months I've been able to lose 32 lbs (currently 168.8 at 5'9.5, looking to drop another 18). I'm 24 days sober of porn/masturbation. I never plan on going back to it. I've quit binge watching T.V.

Professional life: 64k a year salary. Working on a promotion and should be able to break 100k within the next year to year and a half.

romantic life: nonexistent. years of living in a porn/masturbation haze killed any desire to pursue women. I have gone to a few hookers when I was younger.

Going forward with fitness: I understand my physique needs a lot of work. Once I get down to 150 I'll be at a healthy bw for my height but scrawny. when that time comes I plan to adopt a bodybuilding style workout and eat in a small caloric surplus. right now my workouts are mainly cardio and compound lifting a couple times a week.

Going forward with women: This right here is where im lost. One thing I understand about women is to not be delusional about my expectations. Im a "short" minority male and I know that a lot of minority men want to go for the blonde sorority type. I don't have that unrealistic goal. Im perfectly ok with hooking up with some average looking minority women. My issues are where to meet them and how to talk to them in a sexual manner. Im also really shy and I'm not good with strangers. Do you all have any tips on how to fix that?

Redpill is an amazing community and ideology. I was taking the easy way for years and I never truly felt fulfilled. you got to do the hard things in life in order to truly succeed.

Consider investing into a reliable ready reference you can pick up and study to better prepare yourself for engaging the opposite sex. I'd suggest that you get yourself a copy of Doc Love's "The System: The Dating Dictionary". Doc Love, who until his passing was also known as Tom Hodges, wrote a weekly advice column that's archive is mirrored on several mens focused sites and a podcast. His media is a bit pricey, but it's a solid foundation a guy can branch out from in RP aware circles. I'd suggest you review his advice column to decide if his view on dating and relationships is aligned with what you aspire for yourself. To save yourself a search, give this scribed link a gander to find out if his book is something you'd like to add to your library. It should also be available on libgen.

@SSBPikkon

The worst part about porn?

I've done nofap and tbh it didn't help me nor transform me in any way and I also think it's not healthy to not masturbate for 3 months.

The body itself will do the process while asleep but still it's unhealthy.

I know the porn is bad and I want to completely remove it from my life. The problem is what to do when horny?

I can't always and forever do push-ups or something to not think about it like others say.

Guys here say find LTR but it's not as simple.

Give me reasons why it is so bad and with what should I replace it.

The specific reasons which prompted you to do nofap several months ago are unknown to us. When you showed up, I doubt any of us were particularly interested enough to ask what those reason may have been. If you've since forgotten, you should probably reflect on your past to remind yourself as to what those reasons were and ask yourself if your situation has in anyway improved. Maybe consider keeping a journal to help you keep track of these things in the future.

You've been asking questions for several months now. Some of us here have offered you advice that, if not useful, outright comical, or retarded, but should've otherwise provided you some ideas you could use to better understand your situation and begin to lay a foundation from which you could move forward to success. I'm wondering, did you consider any of it, or did you just dismiss it, and resume doing what you were doing only to come here to vent like we're a testosterone friendly reddit clone.

Open Library

Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, Brewster Kahle, Alexis Rossi, Anand Chitipothu, and Rebecca Malamud, Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization. It has been funded in part by grants from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation. Open Library provides online digital copies in multiple formats, created from images of many public domain, out-of-print, and in-print books.

Open Library claims to have over 20 million records in its database. Copies of the contents of tens of thousands of modern books have been made available from 150 libraries and publishers for ebook controlled digital lending. Other books including in-print and in-copyright books have been scanned from copies in library collections, library discards, and donations, and are also available for lending in digital form. In total, the Open Library offers copies of over 1.4 million books for what it calls "digital lending", but critics have called distribution of digital copies a violation of copyright law.

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@Johan

Been lying about my age to my LTR for 6 months, should i reveal it?

I'm 32

I'm rarely attracted to girls of my age, and even then, most of them don't take me seriously and believe i'm a student

I basically look like i'm in my early 20's, so i started telling girls i meet at the club/bar that i'm 24, because they got the ick half of the time when i would tell my real age, depsite being attracted to me

i met current gf at a bar 6 months ago, told her i'm 24 the night i met her, she is 20YO, everything is goine fine, she is super attracted, she isn't suspisious about anything

I even met her parents/sister/friends, they like me a lot

Not sure what to do at this point, just reveal my age and see how it goes? I can't get prosecuted because the majority is 18 in my country

You didn't care enough about this to tell her six month ago, and if she doesn't know by now, then she clearly doesn't care. Stop over-thinking this like it's a problem and just enjoy the time you spend with her when you spend time with her. With what you've share, should fortune smile upon you let your tombstone be the thing that lets her know how much older than her you were.