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Extras from Episode 6: Dear Mystery, Farewell to lost contestants, and MORE!

Watch Episode 6 of Season 2 of The Pickup Artist!

The guys learn about "day game" when they are taken to a grocery store and challenged to pickup women in an everyday situation. Later, after pairing off into two teams, the students enter the field with a mission -- to use their wingmen skills to make out with their targets in the club. Some are successful while others fall behind in the competition.

Extras from Episode 5: Dear Mystery, Farewell to lost contestants, and MORE!

See the newest The Pick-Up Artist afterparty interview from Style's house, courtesy of www.pickuplabs.com

See the newest The Pick-Up Artist afterparty interview from Style's house, courtesy of www.pickuplabs.com

Watch Episode 5 of Season 2 of The Pickup Artist!

When the five remaining students arrive at a hotel ballroom, none of them anticipate that they are actually attending a women's charity auction where they will be auctioned off on stage. In the field test, the guys face their more intimidating challenge yet -- picking up BIKINI MODELS. Some are successful while others crash and burn.

Extras from Episode 4: Dear Mystery, Farewell to lost contestants, and MORE!

Watch Episode 4 of Season 2 of The Pickup Artist!

The six remaining students are put on the spot when asked to talk about their physical experiences with women, and then demonstrate their skills on a professional sexologist. However, even after a day of practice, the guys leave Mystery extremely disappointed when none of them are able to meet the objective of the kiss close field test.

See the newest The Pick-Up Artist afterparty interview from Style's house, courtesy of www.pickuplabs.com

Extras from Episode 3: Dear Mystery, Farewell to lost contestants, and MORE!

Mystery, Matador, Lovedrop, and Mehow are back to tell Young Hollywood their secrets to scoring women. We join them at their viewing party for Read More »

Watch Episode 3 of Season 2 of The Pickup Artist!

See the first The Pick-Up Artist afterparty interview from Style's house, courtesy of www.pickuplabs.com

Extras from Episode 2: Dear Mystery, Farewell to lost contestants, and MORE!

Not every guy's got game when it comes to the opposite sex.  That's why ladies' man extraordinaire Mystery is back with a second season of The Pickup Artist.  On the reality competition, he schools nine would-be Romeos in the art of seduction and takes them to meet women as hidden cameras follow their progress.  The pupil who learns Mystery's moves best will bag $50,000, which he could use to start a love pad of his own...

Watch Episode 2 of Season 2 of the Pickup Artist

The eight remaining students are surprised when they arrive at their first reward challenge and discover their task is to charm little old ladies at a bingo parlor. After their first official lesson from Mystery, the rookies take to the field and attempt to open sets of women using the techniques they just learned from the master himself.

Extras from Episode 1: Dear Mystery, Farewell to lost contestants, and MORE!

Watch Episode 1 of Season 2 of the Pickup Artist

Nine loveable losers arrive at a mansion in the Arizona desert to meet the one man who can teach them the skills to improve their game with women. After hitting the clubs to demonstrate their lack of game for their mentor, Mystery, the students are treated to makeovers. But the nine newbies are stunned when one of their team is sent home before he even begins his transformation.

Mystery and his sidekicks are back with a new batch of guys to transform from pitiful to playas!

Hot off the press! New season debuts Sunday, Oct. 12 at 10/9c on VH1!

Ugly Betty pays homage to Mystery. Read More »

Mystery gives advice to celebrities in People Magazine Read More »

Dressed in tight leather pants, patterned vest and a V-neck muscle shirt, Matador, of VH1’s “The Pick-Up Artist,” cut an intimidating figure Wednesday night in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall. As part of the latest event in the Sex Week at Yale series, Matador spoke to a packed audience for 90 minutes, revealing tips and tricks from his unusual trade: seduction. Read More »

Stars of the VH1 show The Pick-Up Artist, Mystery and Matador are interviewed by askmen.com Read More »

“The Pick-Up Artist,” which began last week, brings together men who appear to have been waiting their whole lives — in one case 45 years — to see seduction codified in some way, and essentially turned into Pop Art. When, in the first episode, Mystery and his henchmen — Matador and J-Dog, themselves former nerds — are seen triumphantly working a roomful of bubbly girls, the art of courtship seems like prancing: like rich comedy and a great time. It does not seem boring, honest and wrenching, like therapy. Watching the gurus on a hidden camera, the nerds are in awe. They seem to have approached sex and romance as abstractions that need to be approached through a series of bitterly difficult chores — like, say, conversation with women. Observing the maestros strut and play brings smiles to their faces. Could picking up women be this easy? Read More »

Erik Von Markovik, aka the pickup master "Mystery," chats about the "Venusian Arts," sexual psychology and why he can help 40-year-old virgins everywhere get laid. Read More »

HERE in the Golden Age of Nerds, it's hardly surprising that guys who can't get chicks would band together to intellectualize the process, deconstructing the emotional mapping of females to unlock secrets that both heredity and upbringing failed to provide them. Read More »

Mystery, Matador, Lovedrop, & Mehow get interviewed by Young Hollywood reporter. Read More »

Mystery appears on The Conan O'Brien Show Read More »

Ten Tips for Success with Women from Mystery's Playboy Magazine Interview Read More »

SAN FRANCISCO — Scores of singles are crammed into The Matrix, a storied local nightclub where Jefferson Airplane got its groove on 40 years back. Now it's all thundering hip-hop, moody lighting and cubist furniture. To the untrained eye, the scene is standard Friday night bacchanalia. But to Lance Mason, it is a battlefield waiting to be dominated. And as 2 a.m. nears, he urges Robert Kramer to attack. "Those three girls over there — make your move, be confident," says Mason, founder of PickUp 101, a popular $1,800 weekend seminar on how to attract the fairer sex. After a few minutes, Kramer, 24, an irrepressible investment banker from San Diego, has his targeted girls smiling. But Mason is horrified. Read More »

Quick pick-up tips from the world's foremost seduction expert. Read More »

Guys. How'd you like to meet any woman you fancy? Even in a bar crowded with competition? Not only meet, but get her phone number? Yeah, right. Not in dating-brutal T.O., you say. And not for you, Mr. Joe Average. You're lucky to even get a smile returned, let alone a phone number. Read More »

Professional Pick-up Artist Erik "Mystery" von Markovik describes his philosophy and methods for picking up women. By dividing the interaction into sub-categories of "attraction", "comfort", and "closing", Mystery claims to execute a successful pick-up leading to a relationship in an average of seven hours. The talk, held in the Stata Center yesterday, was sponsored by the 2008 Class Council. Read More »

A news story on Mystery and Lovedrop on Channel 12 News. Plus more of the interview that didn't make it to TV. Read More »

He describes himself as a loveable loser, a computer geek who figured out an effective method for meeting women. He calls it the Mystery Method. And he calls himself "Mystery". In an interview with Fay Fredricks he tells how he analyzed the process of courtship and broke it down into three phases: attraction, comfort and seduction. Read More »

The story of Neil Strauss, AKA Style and his transformation from AFC to pickup guru at the hands of his mentor and now long-time friend, Mystery. Considered to be the world's greatest pickup artist, Mystery takes Style under his wing as they travel around the world teaching men the secrets of attracting and seducing women. Read More »

Believe it or not, this man has the power to seduce almost any woman he wants. Hugo Rifkind became his pupil, and put the secrets of the underground cult of the pick-up artist to the test Read More »

By his own admission, Neil Strauss is not your standard-issue pickup artist. An L.A.based journalist - and the co-author of several raunchy celebrity tombs, including Motley Crue’s The Dirt and Jeanna Jameson’s How to Make Love Like a Porn Star Strauss describes himself in grocery-list form: I’m short and I’m bald. I have a big nose, a receding chin and weird indents on the side of my head. But put him in a bar filled with beautiful women, he says, and he transforms into a sort of superhero. A dark horse Casanova. A walking, talking hunk of human catnip. Strauss wasn’t born with these superpowers. In fact, only two years ago single, miserable and in his early 30’s he had zero confidence with women. I was so unhappy with myself, he says. I used to fear women because they had this power over you to make you feel inadequate. Then one day, he received the phone call that would alter his dating trajectory forever. An editor he knew asked him to take a look at an online guide to seducing women as fodder for a po Read More »

Writers do not usually have teeth that catch the sun as brilliantly as Neil Strauss's do. The teeth, along with the Lasik eye surgery, shaved head, defined goatee, tan and subtle extra inches on his boots all came to him on the orders of Mystery, the world's greatest seduction master, and Strauss's mentor when it came to writing his latest book, The Game, in which he penetrates the secret world of the modern pick-up artist, or PUA. The scar on his cheek is from Krav Maga, an Israeli self-defence class in which he failed to defend himself. It is, like surfing, a physical pursuit he took up in order to buff his puny body. He also did the Alexander Technique to improve his posture. When he helps other men now with their seduction art, he shows them where the top of their spine is (it's always higher than they think) so they can stand up straight and look like the alpha male in the room. They listen to him because, somewhere along the line, in writing about the secret society of pick-up artists, he became one of Read More »

We'll call this one Cupid because, with his golden curls and wide-eyed cherubic face, it seems like a decent handle. He's 26, fresh out of the military and, despite his Abercrombie good looks, he tends to panic when he talks to girls. "I'm totally an introvert," he says early on a Friday evening. But now it's into the wee hours of Saturday morning and he's at the Saddle Ranch on the Sunset Strip. He's watched as a man called Mystery made out with a cute brunet with pale lipstick and another guy did a "bounce," leading the most scantily clad woman at the bar from one part of the patio to another. Read More »

Attired as he is in ski goggles over a woolly hat, Mystery does not exactly cut a dash as your romantic hero. He’s unnerving rather than seductive. But this is the man that claims he is the world’s greatest pick-up artist, a modern day Casanova who boasts he can seduce any women he chooses. With that kind of build up, you’d imagine he could at least look like George Clooney. Read More »

Friday night and the Circle Bar inside the Hard Rock Hotel pulsates with music and energy, jammed with so many people that movement is sometimes difficult. Our group of six or seven guys has found a little corner, where we huddle together and nervously wait for our professor. When he arrives, he's impossible to miss. At 6 feet, 5 inches tall, his head rises above to crowd and he's dressed like a rock star. He wars a black Australian raffia cowboy hat-with a star pendant and little black feathers on the front-and it covers his long dark hair. He is clad in a loud pink-and-black, leopard-print T-shirt. Around his neck is a feathered boa. He wears a pair of retro black-framed rectangular eyeglasses, without lenses. His fingernails are painted black. Heads, literally, turn as he makes his way through the bar, which is exactly the effect he sought. He calls it "peacocking," dressing to draw attention to yourself. Read More »

Mystery—a maestro of the pickup artist scene—has cracked the code of getting a woman to yes, yes, yes. But can his choreographed come-ons really give men what they want? Read More »

Playboys, philanderers, gigolos. Call them what you will; whatever their character flaws, pickup artists are, at least, confident, goal-oriented individuals with the wherewithal to get what they want. And "what they want" is hardly a secret: One vodka martini and the twinkle in 007's eye betrays his every dirty desire. Commitment, as you might guess, is rarely among them. But that might be changing. Believe it or not, today's digitized world could be bringing the age of the one-night stand to an end. According to a cover story in Saturday Night magazine (July 2004), today's seduction community (yes, there is such a thing, and it has blogs) is distancing itself from the sexcentric stereotypes of yore. As writer Christopher Shulgan discovers, the new seducers are looking for more than the usual Saturday-night hanky-panky — they also crave "a partner to snuggle with on Sunday morning." Read More »

In the game of love, Erik von Markovik, once a Dungeons and Dragons-playing teen in suburban Toronto, has become a major player. Now going by the name Mystery, he's taught scores of men how to perfect the pickup. Read More »

I am far from attractive. My nose is large for my face and, while not hooked, has a bump in the ridge. Though I am not bald, to say that my hair is thinning would be an understatement. I have indentations on either side of my forehead, which I like and believe add character to my face, though I've never actually received a compliment on them. When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it. Read More »

Men tired of being labeled the friend but never the boyfriend can turn to the "seduction community" for help. A pretty blond passes by the group of single guys, but they ignore her as she stops to pour milk in her Styrofoam coffee cup. The dozen men, in their 20s and 30s, are huddled at tables at the back of the St. Laurent Blvd. Cafe. Their attention is directed at the flamboyant 6-foot-5-inch "uber-trainer" from Toronto. It's a Friday night in July, and each of the men has paid to spend three days following Mystery (Aka: Erik von Markovik), an illusionist by profession who's reputed to be one of Canada's authorities on attracting women. Read More »