‘Asian playboys’ and rationalism : a qualitative study of the processes Singapore pickup artists use to 'Pickup' women on dating websites

• Main Author: Waikar, Prashant
• Other Authors: Premchand Varma Dommaraju
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66143
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Using qualitative in-depth interviews with 12 respondents, this paper analyses the strategies, known as ‘game’, pickup artists (PUA) use to ‘pickup’ women from dating websites. Operating from a Weberian framework of rationalism, this study discusses (1) how learning ‘online game’ is taylorized, (2)...