Ross Jeffries Is a Pick Up King
He claims he can GET A WOMAN INTO BED within 20 minutes of meeting her - and can teach you to do the same.
from STUDIO For Men Magazine AUTUMN/WINTER
'97
Benjamin Long meets the
man who's taught speed seduction to 40,000 men worldwide.
"JUST THINK HOW exciting it would
be to solve the answer to a problem that has plagued man since he
first crawled out of the slime, which is: how do I get more sex, how
do I get more women attracted to me?" Ross Jeffries says. "I
found the answer."
Jeffries is the man behind
the romantic art of 'speed seduction'. You may know him as the author of
such books as How To Get The Women You Desire Into Bed or from
such videos as How To Get Strippers And Other Erotic Professionals
Into Bed! and How To Get Your Girlfriend, Wife Or Date To Blow
You! Jeffries also offers The Basic Speed Seduction Home Study
Course, which promises to reveal "the secrets that will have
the hottest women falling MADLY in love and begging to bang you in as
little as 20 MINUTES TIME!".
Subscribers to his Get
Laid! newsletter receive regular updates on such topics as How To
Nail That Girl That Just Wants To Be Friends! and How To Induce A
Hypnotic Trance In Three Minutes Or Less And NEVER Get Caught! Once
you've advanced past the novice stage, you may want to enroll in one of
his regular three-day Advanced Seduction Master Weekends where you will
learn "the breakthrough secrets that will turn you into a scoring
genius, humping and pumping every gorgeous girl in sight!!!!".
In person, Jeffries is
a little disappointing. I was hoping for a throwback to the glory
days of swinging: elevator shoes, tight slacks, body shirt, hairy
chest, gold chains and greased-back hair. Instead, the 37 year old
is dressed conventionally and resembles a Jewish intellectual, rather
like Harold Ramis, in Ghostbusters. On the walls of his house
in LA's Marina Del Rey, where I expected posters of naked girls
draped over Italian sports cars, were saccharine photographs of
Dalmatian and pussycats.
Jeffries claims the
inspiration for speed seduction came from martial arts. "I thought
to myself, a guy's five-foot tall, 90 pounds, and knows wing-chun and he
can kick the ass of a guy who's six foot-five, 250 pounds of solid
muscle - there's got to be something like that when it comes to dating.
Because I did pretty poorly at dating, I thought, there has to be a way
around this, I can't accept that the only thing I get in life is the
women who like me or the leftovers. There has to be another way."
The other vital ingredient
to Jeffries' breakthrough discovery was Neuro Linguistic Programming
(NLP), an approach to psychotherapy that uses sophisticated language
patterns and metaphor to communicate with the unconscious mind. It has
been used as a therapy, as a self-help tool and, as practiced by
millionaire business guru Tony Robbins, for making lots of money.
Jeffries' genius was to cast aside any moral considerations and use it
to gain sexual favors.
"In 1987 I failed in
my career as a comedy writer," says Jeffries. "I started doing
NLP on the therapeutic side and then I ran into the persuasion side -
I'd always known there was a persuasion side, I just hadn't been able to
find anyone to teach it to me until around 1992. I thought, 'Great I can
create a martial art for guys to attract women using these principles'.
"Basically, it's an
odds improver. For most men, dating's a form of gambling. They don't
know how to create a result on a consistent basis. Maybe she'll
like the way you look, or maybe you'll accidentally say something
she likes. So I designed a system of using hypnotic language in
a way that invokes powerful emotional states in women.
"I think of myself as
very average-looking with a tilt towards ugly. So how do you get past
that? If you can get a woman to feel positive emotions, get her to feel
totally connected, feeling like she's known you forever, that will turn
her up. If you can get her excited and imagining sexual fantasies as
well, then you've got her. Her neurology is lit up. What women are
looking for is men who light up their neurology. Voltaire said, 'Give me
10 minutes to talk away my ugly face and I will bed the Queen of
France'. He was a brilliant guy. He probably worked it out."
The first important step
in Jeffries' technique is building self-confidence. "You've got to
start with yourself. If you're not feeling good, then you can't make
someone else feel good. So I teach guys how to design powerful
self-images. You can take a guy who's an air traffic controller, who has
incredible focus, who can deal with incredible stress, and put him in
front of a Penthouse pet in a thong bikini, all oiled up, and he
won't be able to put two words together. That's an altered state of
consciousness. Everything I do is designed around altered states of
consciousness - designing an altered state of consciousness for yourself
and building altered states for them. I teach guys to build clarity,
so they know what to look for; thoroughness, so they do
everything they need to; fun, so they have a sense of humor about
it; and ferociousness so they really go for it."
The second step is to use
"suggestive languaging" to guide a woman's imagination.
"A lot of this is being vague. Being vague is very hypnotic.
If I said to a woman, 'The reason you should fall in love with me
is that I'm very funny and I'm a great dancer and I'm really good
in bed', the average girl is not going to buy that. But if I said,
[takes a deep breath] 'I don't know what it is you think about when
you just stop and you go inside and you consider the ideal man you
want to be with and you begin to imagine exactly what it would be
like to be with this person, to feel all the things you really want
to feel for all the right reasons, but I'll tell you something,
when I'm with a woman like that and they begin to see the possibilities
of having all that with me, what a difference in the way they think'.
And the amazing thing is, after they've banged you they'll say.
'I don't know how you were able to tell me exactly what I was looking
for in a guy, but you just laid it out word for word'. When in fact,
I didn't say a thing. I was very vague. Part of the skill is being
vague and using sexual metaphor - 'open', 'penetrate', 'come inside',
'surrender' , 'feel a powerful happiness', 'below me', whatever."
According to Jeffries,
using such phrases as "feel a big happiness inside"
(pronounced "hap-penis") or "below me" (pronounced
"blow me") will invoke in your victim an uncontrollable urge
to do just that. "It works at the end of a chain of suggestions and
descriptions that evoke all these sexual and emotional states,"
Jeffries elucidates. "If I'm building all this stuff and her
unconscious mind is thinking 'sex, love, emotions' and then I say 'below
me', it's phonetic ambiguity. You don't know if I'm saying blow or
below. The mind will pick the one that's consistent with train of
thought that came before."
Modulating the tones of
one's voice is another facet of the speed seduction technique. This
basically involves putting on a deep, mellifluous voice and speaking
slowly and rhythmically. Presumably, this helps to hypnotize the victim,
though if you're not careful it may just put them to sleep. Body
language is also important. From what I can gather this mostly consists
of pointing at your crotch a lot.
"Part three,"
continues Jeffries, "are the frameworks that make it sound like an
ordinary conversation - you can't just walk up to a woman and start
talking about her deepest emotions. She'll slap your face. I've created
conversational frames that allow you to bring up the most outrageous and
wild topics and make it sound like normal conversation."
While you may have your
doubts, there are plenty of people willing to testify that speed
seduction works. Jeffries' website receives 85,000 hits a month and is
littered with eager testimonial. "I had been after this girl who
was just a friend for over two years! I used your 'weasel pattern' on
her and within two hours we were back in my room and I had her shirt off
and I was sucking away on what I had lusted after for so long!!!"
writes one happy disciple. "Your methods have shown me how to
create the emotional states in women that they CRAVE and long for, and,
as a result, I've enjoyed more sex with more women in the past six
months than I usually do in five years!" adds another.
During our interview, we're
interrupted by a phone call from a follower wanting advice on a
particular seduction problem. "I didn't plan this," says
Jeffries. "I get two or three calls a day; usually they're
guys who want to appoint me king of the earth. This is such an important
area for a guy. If you take him from last place to fourth place
he'll love you. If you take him from last place to first place they're
in awe." While he won't tell me how much he makes, it's obvious
Jeffries leads a very comfortable lifestyle. And if he's as popular
as he claims - 40,000 followers worldwide and growing - then his
wealth is unsurprising. His home study course costs $450 or $700
with the accompanying videotape. The three-day Get Laid workshops
are $850 a head. Last October he hosted a $3,000-a-head, week-long
VIP seminar in the Bahamas.
There are plenty of
people, of course, who find Jeffries totally offensive. And there is
plenty to be offended by. As you will have gathered from the titles of
his books and videos, Jeffries delights in being deliberately
provocative and politically incorrect. And the ethics of using hypnotism
to lure women into bed are also questionable, to put it mildly.
The over-the-top
offensiveness is largely a marketing tool. "If you want me to get
cruder and more controversial just let me know," Jeffries says
cheerfully. At the same time 'the chairman of the broads' feels he's not
getting the respect he's due, "I brought it upon myself," he
laments. "I'm intelligent enough to know if I go on talk shows and
get attention by talking about banging any woman you want, then I can't
blame them when they turn around and point the finger and focus on
that."
While to some he will
always be a despicable sleazebag, Jeffries sees himself in a more heroic
light. I'm proud of what I'm doing, proud of my life. I went through
years of failure, of being continually lost, to get to where I am. It
was a form of hell. I understand those myths where the hero descends
into hell and has to complete some tasks in order to come back into the
world and be a hero, because it's totally true.
"I know why this works,
I know how this works," he says. "But every time it works
it still astonishes me. I'm like the magician who's as surprised
as the audience that he's sawed the woman in half. I'll tell you
the truth. I've never told this to a journalist before: this is
what I'm meant to be doing with my life. I can remember being a
child, maybe seven years old, and having a waking dream of myself
as an adult teaching a lot of men. I remember much later at college
having been turned down for a date for the fifteenth time just crying
and yelling out loud 'When am I going to solve this?". I swear
I heard a voice in my head saying 'When you solve it, you'll solve
it for everyone'. And I think I have solved it."