So over on MPUAForum.com the other day, some of the aspiring master seducers were dicsussing ovulation. You know, like guys do.
No, they haven’t suddenly developed a genuine interest in the literal inner workings of women. It’s just that they think knowing a bit about ovulation will help them get laid. Because according to the tenets of something called Peak Ovulation Theory,
girls will fuck with the bad boy during peak ovulation and the rest of the menstrual cycle, they will get it on with the nice guys.
So … if your style of game is the bad boy vibe, you’ll get to fuck the girl at her horniest days.
Don’t worry: it’s all very scientific. They have studies and everything.
Indeed, we’ve discussed this topic before, and suggested a little mnemonic device to help pickup artists remember that the ladies will be especially open to game when they’re ovulating:
When she’s gettin’ eggy, it’s time to neggy
The only real problem is being able to tell at a glance if a woman is ovulating or not before you lay down your bad boy vibe on her. In other words: how do you fine tune your Ovuladar?
A site moderator with the slightly puzzling nickname poeticlyskuac offered these thoughts:
I don’t look for signs of ovulation… I look for signs a girl is dtf… this could be during ovulation but the point is girls counterfeit the same signals …
studies show girls in some areas genuinely show less clothes during that time of the month especially during the day …
Movement is also something to pay attention to as women who are seeking sexual attention move accordingly … also a woman near ovulation will have clearer skin…
Ok, so if I understand this correctly, a woman who is ovulating, or maybe just horny, will be sashaying around practically naked. And she won’t have pimples.
The point is to look for behavioral patterns… certain things are going to be easy to detect… Other things such as skin redness… pupil size will be harder to tell but they aren’t impossible in a properly lit environment…
Wait. Is the skin supposed to be red or not? Just how big are the pupils supposed to be?
Most women are clueless to the 48 hrs they are ovulating… absolutely clueless.. Very few women know and feel their eggs dropping… Rare ones do and it can be quite painful if you are one of those that detect it… I would never ask a woman if she was ovulation because it’ll be a waste of time…
Also, I’m guessing she might give you this look:
Hellhound offered a simpler way to tell if a woman is ovulating: does she give you a boner? Let’s let him explain the science behind what we might call the Ovuladar in Your Pants.
Men are genetically wired to be providers and protectors while women are genetically wired to be nurturers. When men get horny with a particular woman who makes their dick hard, they have a tendency to spend more money on this woman and become overly protective and jealous. …
Moreover, when your dick gets hard, you are more likely to give women favors. When a woman asks you for favors, note that this behavior is mostly made in an unconscious, instinctive manner, she is actually trying to determine if your dick is getting rock hard for her. Why? …
In simple terms, the woman is genetically probing if you’ll be a good provider to her. Subconsciously, she is testing the hardness of your dick. Since your cock remains hidden inside your pants, she has to instinctively know if your dick gets hard for her by asking you to buy her a drink.
Ok, now that we’ve determined that your boner is a bit of a spendthrift when it comes to boner-inspiring ladies, what does this have to do with ovulation? Hellhound offers a video which presumably explains this all. I didn’t watch it, but let’s just assume that his SCIENCE is as tight as his pants. So on we go to his conclusion:
In summary, for the first indicator of peak ovulation, when your dick gets throbbing rock hard for a hot woman and you get the itch to buy her a drink or coffee, even when she’s not asking you for it, she is likely to be fertile.
Ok, but how do you tell for sure? Luckily for us, Hellhound has some suggestions that seem as ROCK SOLID as his you know what.
You will have a persistent hard on … with a fertile woman. To verify if she’s on her peak ovulation period and aroused enough with your hard on, give her some of these compliance tests:
1. Can I have some of these? However, I left my wallet at home. (Pause and wait if she’ll give you items for free) or…
2. Can I have some of these? I’ll pay you later/tomorrow because I forgot to bring my wallet. (If she complies, you’re good.)
3. I wanted to cook [name recipe here] but I don’t know how… (Pause and then bait her if she’ll volunteer. When she volunteers, isolate to your place. When you’re feeling bold, ask her to buy some of the ingredients.)
A woman’s arousal will escalate when you notice that she keeps on looking at your cock and her ear lobes turn red. This is also a good time for aggressive kino but don’t grab her ass or boobies in public. Isolate.
A woman with red ears who gives you things amd looks at your dick probably likes you. Check. Don’t grab her boobs or butt in public. Check.
Learning about science is fun!
A fellow by the name of Melodical, meanwhile, offers some scientific evidence of his own:
Although it hasn’t been studied in depth there is a school of thought that suggest that a woman at her peak sexual receptivity is more likely to wear the colour red at this time.
Remember the old saying “Red shoes, no knickers”
Most signs of sexual availability in the animal kingdom involve a female displaying red in some form or another, maybe there is still a hardwired neural behaviour in women to do still display this.
But not everyone in the thread has been completely convinced by Peak Ovulation Theory. SexAddict91 offered anecdotal evidence that some women are actually hornier during shark week than egg days:
In my experience, a woman’s horniest days are just before or during menstration. I’ve heard and seen it too many times from women for this not to be true. I’m not just talking an average level of horny, I’m talking super and aggressive horny.
But he’s open to evidence that challenges his observations.
If science does not support this, my only other logical conclusion is that they are horny throughout the cycle or at peek ovulation but because just before or during flow time they really can’t have sex even when enticed, it becomes much more relevant in their memory. ( as in, they want sex more because they can’t have it)
TheFury, meanwhile, argued that Peak Ovulation Theory is not particularly useful for pickup artists as a practical matter, responding to Hellhound with this less-than-supportive comment:
All this shit is worthless in practice as I have said 100x and said again here. Anyways, you are clearly a delusional idiot, keep sniffing women’s panties and measuring their skin temperature.
In a followup comment he added,
It is clear that I am right and that women being ovulating has little practical relevance for a PUA. Much more relevant is when a woman is having her period because many men won’t sleep with her then or she will be too embarrassed to sleep with you on her period. That is actually practical. This garbage is not. Plain and simple. …
Bottom line, you clearly do not know the difference between practical and statistically significant/some garbage someone wrote in an abstract or some tiny difference observed in a study. The most likely reason for this is that you have no actual experience with women other than watching porno and reading studies or jerking off to studies about ovulation, because if you had experience with women you would know nothing you linked to has almost any practical implication.
But how can anyone doubt such clear and incontrovertible data for Peak Ovulation as this chart here, posted to the discussion by Hellhound himself?
That’s the kind of SCIENCE that gives Pickup Artists boners.
NOTE: I found my way to this wondrous discussion through a tweet from PUA.txt on Twitter, an account that regularly posts ridiculous real quotes from ridiculous real PUAs. It’s an account that’s well worth following if you’re on Twitter!
…and let’s just go ahead and make the link between boundary-probing behavior and rape culture.
Or as he says here…
(that should be ‘make the link explicit — I think I messed up my bolding tags there)
“Well, technically, it’s not a made up word. It’s just a stupid mispelling for kinesthetic, so I guess they call it “kino” becaus if they started saying Kine, sooner or later, every PuA would be playing World of Darkness instead of being out sarging.
And the world would be a better place.”
TRUFAX!
And I put VtM:B on google docs as a zip file if anyone wants to email me for a link (this nym at gmail) (runs under wine, though you’re on your own for that, mac I can link you to the wrapper I’m using, XP definitely a go, vista in theory but I never tried, no clue on win7)
VtM:B as in Bloodlines? Oh, neat-o. I’d take you up on it, except I have it installed this very moment.
Also, @Howard Bannister, thank you for that link. Interesting reading.
@falconer
D’aww. Your babies are always so cute.
Fibinachi — the one and only! Curious, what are you running it under? I switched to OSX from XP and thus can’t verify that it works on anything newer.
Now I kind of imagine a PUA dalek going:
INITIATE. ESCALATE. ISOLATE. COPULATE.
Windows 7, Home Premium, 64 Bit (6.1, Build 7601).
Heavily modded, modified version with all fan patches and a few mods.
Does crash occasionally, and there’s some stuttering, but it seems to work more or less fine.
I believe http://www.patches-scrolls.com/vampire_bloodlines.php offers patches of the unofficial variety which rapidly and greatly enhance functionality up to and including Windows 7.
Everyone should be aware that this joke has been immortalized in song.
Well yeah, it crashes occasionally. Anyone who makes that game run perfectly deserves a medal! Glad to hear it can work under win7 though (and the zip file is patched through wesp5.something, so it’s as stable as I can expect for running it on a mac)
I’ve tried Bloodlines on Vista, and it seems to work. Admittedly, I only got as far as the main menu before I had to hold a baby and needed something I could do with just the mouse.
It’s an FPS/RPG mashup, right? Do I need two hands to play? I was presuming that I do.
@Marie: thank you very much! They are also very sweet, everyone tells me. I haven’t crossed them yet (read: taken something away from them) so they may yet throw a tantrum in the store because I won’t buy them candy.
The last time I went all Dalek on this site, I had to hand out the brain bleach by the gallon.
“It’s an FPS/RPG mashup, right? Do I need two hands to play? I was presuming that I do.”
Yeah, sorta. It’s an RPG, but you can play FPS if you want (doesn’t change the dialogs other than the ones with people discussing weapons and combat, still all the plot and such). And the tutorial is lots of talking, so you can get at least part way through one handed, beyond that you’ll need two hands generally speaking (I do a lot of the running one handed, but yeah, you’ll want two hands, neither of them with cute baby hands)
Let me help you play, daddy! Give me that, daddy! Baby spit is good for that, daddy!
Also, Baldur’s Gate you can play one-handed, but my style is to strike the space bar and pause the game with the blinding strike of the cobra because I need time to choose: Do I FWAKOOM the oncoming orcs, or just NEEEEEEM them?
Also I tend to wander around with six bows (or maybe four bows and two slings) ready, so as soon as something pops up at the edge of vision I stop the party and let the target have it.
I was having fun with arrows of fireball until I blasted some hostages with them.
Lol, I lost a humanity point last night by accidentally killing an innocent. So I know how that goes.
Outside combat you could potentially play one handed, though I don’t recommend it. Combat you definitely want one hand on the mouse and one on the move keys (a, s, d, w to move, mouse to look and strike // cast [the best tank builds depend on vampire disciplines, so casting those, not Mage casting])
Ew.
not like that not like that
From what I know about WoD Mage casting, I imagine Bloodlines had to cut some corners in implementing Paradox, if they included it at all.
Paradox itself wouldn’t be all that difficult (determining Vulgarity would be a bit more tricky), but I honestly can’t see true Mage-style dynamic magic working at all in a computer game system.
(For those who are on the outside looking in at this point: In oWoD Mage, the system was literally designed to encompass any particular effect a player could come up with. Often, there would be multiple options to achieve similar results. Because of this, there was often great disagreement among the fanbase about how a particular effect would be formed, and what component abilities [called Spheres, of which there were 9] were required to do it. Mage is an awesome system, but it really, really needs a fairly strong degree of communication between player and ST: very often, there’s a lot of negotiation going on.)
It’s not Mage mage, just Tremere, and yes it is limited to five specific effects (though two are spending blood to get more blood and fucking awesome, as is blood shield). No ST debate if being able to make an object weighing more than you move through the air means you can fly. (I said “sure, enjoy the blood hunt”)
… Okay, I’m going back to D&D where the spells are nailed down and can’t be twisted that much.
Is that like the Dark Hunt where the faeries chase you down with hounds and things? Probably not.
And for my pains I’m now trying to work out how to handle fantasy mecha.
Go big or go home, I say.