Carlos Xuma (Bad Boy Formula) Interviewed By Derek Rake

True story: Carlos Xuma once went on a date with a girl who actually CRINGED away from him when he went on hug her good night. It was a nightmarish experience for him, he swore that he’d never go through that again. Fast forward a couple of years: he’s now a bona-fide expert when it comes [...]

Rake Interviews Belmont - Creator Of “The Handsome Factor”

In this latest installment of Interviews With Seduction Masters, we talk to Mark Belmont, who recently launched “The Handsome Factor” which is a program which teaches men how to improve their physical appearances dramatically. What attracted me to Belmont’s work is that the topic of physical appearance is one of the most neglected in the seduction [...]

The Magic Ingredient of Seduction

Last Saturday, Mr X (of "The Player's Guide" fame) came up to Singapore and we caught up over tea on a sidewalk cafe on Orchard Road. He told me this story about two guys, Mark and Sam, who he coached in his super-exclusive, $3,997-a-year Player's Guide Inner Circle in Santa Monica. "Mark looks like a smelly bum off the back alley in the slums of Compton, no sh*t," Mr X says. "And he's not exactly super smooth either."

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