Attraction

Attraction is the most important emotion with regards to pick up. If a girl is not attracted to you, she won't sleep with you. Thus, attraction is necessary to establish with every girl you aim to pick up. I purposely used the word "establish" instead of "build" because attraction can sometimes be assumed, for example on approach invitations (girl is looking at you and smiling). In this case attraction is immediately established as you approach.

It is also the first thing you want to establish, because without early attraction the interaction will go wrong. You'll either end up in the friendship zone (she'll see you like a nice guy who she could have a platonic friendship with), or as the next guy to approach her trying to pick her up.

Before we talk about what creates attraction, it's important to recognize two different kinds of attraction.

1. Replication-based Attraction (Physical/Sexual attraction)
   
2. Survival-based Attraction (Protection-based attraction)
   

Physical attraction is generated very early (usually before or during the approach), and is generated by the following:

1. Beauty (facial looks, hair, body shape, length, smell)
2. Body language (posture, movements, facial expressions)
3. Sexual Charisma
4. Kino escalation

If a girl finds you physically appealing as soon as you approach her (because of beauty and body language) and you project a lot of sexual charisma combined with early and smooth kino escalation, you will be able to amplify a lot of attraction in a very short amount of time.

Whereas physical appearance clearly conveys that you are healthy and will most likely give her strong children, protection value conveys that you are a good investment for her well-being. Protection value is actually more powerful in the long run, because you are offering her and her children a better future. The following conveys protection value:

1. Leadership
2. Female pre-selection
3. Power/Status/Fame
4. Assets/Wealth

Contrary to generators of physical attraction, these latter traits can be conveyed without actually being displayed. You can't tell a girl you are beautiful - either she finds you beautiful, or she doesn't - but you can convey that you have a lot of power, status, girls, or followers, indirectly through stories. Furthermore, you don't actually need to possess any of that. What you need is to have a strong identity - with that comes potential value, and you've shown that you are a good investment. That's why you get the compliment "I believe in you" from a girl who's seen your strong identity.

These two ways of generating attraction are very different. Physical attraction explains why some poor guys will still get girls; protection-based attraction explains why some ugly guys will. Physical attraction is powerful, intense, but short lasting. Protection-based attraction builds slowly but safely - it won't go away as easily. Interestingly, this corresponds very well to the evolutionary principles of sexual selection: females chose good genes (physical attributes) for replication, and lots of protection for survival. By natural selection, the word "chose" in the previous sentence can be replace by "attracted to". Most of this happens unconsciously of course; neither males nor females tend to reflect upon how attraction is generate - they simply experience it through the emotions that have been hard wired into their brains.

So which strategy is the best? There are many answers to that question. Firstly, they are not mutually exclusive: you may very well mix the two techniques. Secondly, much of physical attraction is beyond your control once you are out in the club: some girls will find you more attractive than others on a physical plane. Protection-based attraction is out of most guys' control, but that is because most guys do not know how to efficiently convey their identity.

Following the advice I have already given you, the best thing you can do is fixing your appearance, having a good state and creating a good energy/vibe with your friends, and start approaching girls. Some will be physically attracted to you from minute one, in which case you've gotten a lot for free - and that is no cheating because there is no cheating in this game, because there are no rules, only limiting beliefs. The idea that some pick ups don't count because they were too easy in some sense is a weapon men use against each other to discredit others for their successes; do not put your success in the hand of other peoples judgement. Whether they are physically attracted to you or not, you should always demonstrate that you are a good investment by conveying your identity (including personality).

Thirdly, which strategy to use depends on the girl you are gaming, or rather, on the state she is in when you are gaming her.
There is a very important behavioral trait among girls that affects a lot regarding strategy: their degree of festivity. We talk about how much of a party chick a girl is, a term very descriptive of their behavior: typically party chicks have high energy, are somewhat drunk, want to dance a lot, and have very short attention span. They are out to have fun as much fun as possible now. They didn't come out to meet some guy for future good times, they want the good times now. They are simple and looking for simplicity, and consequently you need to use simple things to pick them up. Protection-based attraction, with it's identity and resource conveying will not work well. Focusing on physical activity will do the trick: kino escalation, dancing, spinning/moving them around. Showing them simple and cool tricks is also a technique that will work. In short, working on physical attraction will work best. On the other hand, the less of a party chick, the more responsive to your identity she will be. Protection-based game will work best then. Girls on the opposite extreme of party chicks are sometimes called librarian-types. The right mix of strategy thus depends on calibration, and this calibration relies almost solely on how much festivity-state a girl is in.

When we talk about sexual comfort, we'll see that the minimum requirements for having sex determines the degree of slutiness (promiscuity). Slutiness is correlated with festivity, so that most party chicks are in fact party sluts. There is a very simple way to have sex with party sluts: rely on physical attraction game - appearance, sexual charisma, body language, and most importantly kino escalation - and then simply do an extraction. This is a common way of getting 10-20 minute extractions.

The most common types of girls are party sluts and non-party non-sluts. That is, it's hard to find high energy girls that are not slutty, and it's hard to find low energy girls that are slutty. However there are exceptions to this relationship between slutiness and festivity: some sluts are low energy, shy girls, that will happily go home with you for sex after 10 minutes of conversation, but high energy game/very physical game won't work as well on them. Instead they want to see your identity and personality shine through, and if they like it, they'll have uninhibited sex with you. Then of course, there are party chicks that are not sluts: girls that go out and are very high energy, but don't sleep with guys early on. This simply means you start by using physical attraction game and then switch to deep comfort game. The necessary requirements for sex will be addressed in the sexual comfort post.