# Male dopers, what are your most effective seduction techiques? Spill! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 13, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615 "2004-11-13T22:54:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/41 "2004-11-15T20:03:14Z")
Huh. I always started out by _not_ trying to seduce them. Instead, I was just myself, and got to know them. Produced mutually pleasing results almost as often as I wanted. 'Course, I’ve been off the market for quite a while, and have no idea how that’d play, any more - I’m crankier and less social these days. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/42 "2004-11-15T20:27:29Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > “Are you about a size 14?” Second only to “It puts the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again.” ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/43 "2004-11-15T21:27:30Z")
Walk up to the most beautiful woman in the bar, stare deeply and soulfully into her eyes, then say, “Baby, you look so good I’d bang you in front of my wife’s attorney.” Oh, you want _ **effective** _ seduction techniques. Never mind then. That one’s never worked. ---
**Author:** ![professor\_folk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@professor\_folk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/professor_folk)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/44 "2004-11-15T22:13:36Z")
Be a musician. It helps. Write songs. Not necessarily about her, but if she thinks you can write about her, she’ll wanna find out. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/45 "2004-11-15T22:28:20Z")
> [@gum](#): > > The moral: Make them laugh. 🙂 And people are _still_ confused about how Woody Allen is somehow considered a ladies’ man. I watched _The Front_ for the first time recently. It’s set in the 1950s and stars Woody as a somewhat opportunistic guy whose blacklisted writer friend proposes that for a cut of the sale Woody claim credit for the writer’s scripts because the writer’s name is verboten in the McCarthyist climate of the time. There’s a scene about halfway through wherein Woody is pitching himself to a representative of the television show buying the scripts; she’s an attractive woman. Watch this scene, and suddenly you realize how Woody is so successful as a seducer: He’s witty, and _he’s focused completely on her._ He’s making her feel like not just the most important and interesting person in the room, but possibly in the city. Yeah, it’s just a movie, and he’s playing a scene as written. But it’s clear that he’s brought a lot of himself and his own approach to the character and to the scene, and you suddenly understand why women respond to him. (Or at least did, before he started to resemble a freeze-dried dogfish.) ---
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/46 "2004-11-15T23:03:25Z")
> [@professor folk](#): > > Be a musician. It helps. Write songs. Not necessarily about her, but if she thinks you can write about her, she’ll wanna find out. Ain’t that the truth! Again, its all about making them feel good. If you are up on a stage singing your own songs and they like them its the same effect of making them feel good through laughter. If you show interest in her, it will let her know that she is special because so many girls like you! I am not a musician, but I can easily see how they get so many girls. ---
**Author:** ![professor\_folk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@professor\_folk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/professor_folk)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/47 "2004-11-16T01:28:58Z")
yep. when they see the passion you put into playing your own songs, especially out in a club or bar or theatre…when there’s other girls watching…they wanna see what makes you tick…and if you can get them to laugh, you’re golden! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/48 "2004-11-16T02:06:04Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > You lick your eyebrows? :eek: Wow. You gotta teach me that trick. Easy: shave them off and keep them in your pocket. ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/49 "2004-11-16T02:10:29Z")
Sit at the bar, and try to look cute. It helps if you can pull off the whole brooding thing. 😃 Well, thats why I do anyway. I’m shy. I sit there, hoping the girls will come over, unable to resist my magnetic charm. Of course, this has not worked yet. But I remain optimistic… ---
**Author:** ![Tigers2B1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@Tigers2B1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tigers2B1)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/50 "2004-11-16T03:37:14Z")
I usually get drunk and start yelling at women. If that doesn’t work I go home and lick my eyebrows. ---
**Author:** ![petelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@petelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petelin)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/51 "2004-11-16T18:07:07Z")
In my experience I’ve had way more luck with humor, and acting ‘natural’ than with any canned approach/technique. There have been a few times when I felt a “wow, this girl is crazy about me” vibe after talking for only a few minutes, and in those cases, in addition to being funny, I was also trying to give mixed messages to her as to whether or not I liked her…in a playful, funny way. That seems to drive them crazy. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/52 "2004-11-16T19:55:18Z")
> [@buttonjockey308](#): > > She’ll look at me, and look away, then the one time she looks at me, I’ll stare deeply into her eyes for a full minute, lick my eyebrows and walk away. Yep. I’d guess having a tongue long enough to reach your eyebrows is a pretty effective seduction technique. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/53 "2004-11-16T20:30:34Z")
-Wear a wedding ring. -Have a big fluffy, friendly sheepdog on a leash. -Have your adorable four-year-old son in you presence. Any combination of these absolutely guarantees a woman’s interest in me. All three, and I’ve got to fend them off with a stick. If I take my son and sheepdog to the pet store, I could be there all day collecting phone numbers. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/54 "2004-11-17T03:19:35Z")
OK, serious and authentic answer. I don’t have any seduction techniques. That’s your department, you female folks. You have the edge so you make it happen at times and places that appeal to you. It has never seriously occurred to me that I would be in control of the process. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/55 "2004-11-17T15:36:58Z")
Getting women to laugh has never been a problem for me. Getting them to stop, however… ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/56 "2004-11-17T20:22:19Z")
> [@Merkwurdigliebe](#): > > But they do have a lot of things I don’t agree with like, “one-itis” That is being caught up on a single girl, and not wanting someone else. I think that’s called being in love, and is a natural thing that offers more benefits than a soulless quest to bed as many women and inflate your ego. I think a relationship with a special girl is more enriching than a string of pointless sex. Check out **Merkwurdigliebe** trying to act all sensitive in here! I feel oddly stirred by this. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/57 "2004-11-17T20:43:07Z")
> [@GrizzRich](#): > > Wear a wedding ring. Heh. If I’d been so inclined, I could have bedded more women in the six months after my marriage than in the two years prior to getting engaged. I wonder what that says about people. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615/58 "2004-11-17T20:49:20Z")
It says you’re safe to flirt with. I’ve noticed this too. When I want 'em, they won’t come near me; when I can’t have 'em, they dangle their forbidden fruit before me with sick, sadistic delight. Women _want_ our attention. They _want_ our slavish admiration. I’m damn close to saying they _expect_ it, and will actively seek it when it’s not offered on a tray. But wait, you thought all this friendliness might lead to sex or something? Why, you pig! So, yeah, go pick on the pathetic married guy. Watch him squirm. Fun! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-what-are-your-most-effective-seduction-techiques-spill/274615.md?page=2)