They’ll throw cold water over your dreams and hopes for a relationship with a man and force you to see the frigid light of reality. A huge percentage of men are NVM and LVM and they’re actively looking for ways to manipulate you. It’s not about sex to them; it’s about power. It’s about degrading women as much as possible to prop up their fragile egos. Some of these “pickup artists” even advocate for and justify violence against women. They teach men to fake whole lives and personalities and to treat relationships with women like a zero-sum game in which emotionally abusing women is the ultimate goal.