‘Charm School’ Helps Men Perfect the Pickup
Read about a day and night in the life of a guy who paid $1,600 to learn how to interact with women.
Read about a day and night in the life of a guy who paid $1,600 to learn how to interact with women.
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Ben had a rough Friday night picking up women on the Hotel Gansevoort’s balcony after being coldly rejected by two attractive blonds.
The 23-year-old documentary filmmaker, who asked his last name not be used for fear of ridicule, suffers from an acute case of “premature ejectulation” — ejecting himself early from promising conversations with women for fear of rejection.
Such was the diagnosis from the coaches of “Charm School Boot Camp,” a three-day crash course on seducing women that Ben and five other men paid $1,600 apiece for in early August.
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