I'm 34M, and I first started learning about pickup and seduction when I was 21. Over the years, I've had success with a number of women, and I've been able to implement some of the principles of seduction into my life. However, one thing I've never been able to do is approach women at random, face-to-face. Most pickup and seduction advice will say that you should approach randomly. Like, for example, if I'm at a coffee shop, and there's a pretty girl sitting at another table twenty feet away, I should just walk over there and talk to her. Or a library, or a department store, or whatever. This is usually called "daygame." This is something that has always seemed really weird to me. Because there's no connection. There's no context. And there's no real reason to talk to her, other than the fact that she's pretty.

On the other hand, I feel fine with talking to women when there's a context or a connection, for example:

  1. At a bar/restaurant/party, hanging out with a group of friends, and I start talking to a woman who's a friend of a friend.
  2. Talking to women at my job, for example, a coworker.
  3. I used to be a teacher, and there were a few times when I ended up socializing with my female students, outside of school, after they had completed my class and they weren't my student anymore.
  4. Sending messages to women through an online dating app, including OKCupid and Zoosk.

I've done all of the above things, and all of them have led to sex at one time or another. But I have trouble believing that a completely random approach can lead to sex. If I randomly talk to a girl in a coffee shop, I feel like she would be confused. She would probably be thinking in the back of her mind, "Who is this guy, and why is he asking me about my coffee, I don't even know him, I just came here to drink coffee and chat with my best friend, and now this random guy is interrupting our conversation."

There have been a few times over the years when I tried a random approach, and it never led to anything. For example, there was one time that I randomly talked to a girl, who was at a bar with a group of her friends. I said "hi," we exchanged a few sentences, and then, after a short time, she turned away from me, stopped making eye contact with me, turned back towards her friends, and re-started the conversation with them. That's basically a non-verbal way of saying "I don't want to talk to this random new guy, I just want to talk to my friends."

Does this actually work? Can someone give me a story/report of a time that you approached a woman at random and it led to sex? If so, what was the initial conversation like? Did the sex happen immediately, like, the same day? Or did you get her number (#close), then a few dates, then sex a few weeks/months later?