1. Argentine girls love disappearing. You think they are loving you hours after you first approached, and then they just ditch you. This may be a reason why Argentine guys are dicks: Why put in the work and be nice and spend all that time if she’s going to ditch?

2. Escalation is different. When an American girl starts touching you a lot and holding your arm, you’re money and can ramp up. When an Argentine girl does it, it’s bait and you should not escalate quite yet. If you bite too early, you “lose” and that’s that. You need to wait longer than normal for when the vibe of the interaction changes; she’ll start staring at you differently and smiling when there is nothing to smile about. Only then do you escalate. I’m still not too clear about this.

3. Dancing is crucial in almost all pick-ups. Since there is no such thing as grinding here, that means you dance for hours a foot away from her touching now and then, waiting and waiting like a puppy dog until you get the green light explained above. If you are the kind of guy like me who prefers leaning against the bar all night with a drink in your hand, you will get significantly less than your twin who hits the dance floor. While dancing offers no certainty you’ll get anything, it’s the only way to have her attention for long periods of time.

4. There is no cockblocking here from the girlfriends. I’m convinced cockblocking is a cultural phenomenon.

5. If I could try one thing differently, I would go serious push game. Constant challenging. Make it seem like every answer they give is wrong and she has absolutely zero chance with you. Saying things like “I wish you were…” While smiling of course. The only way to find out how far you can go is to make a few girls genuinely mad at you.

6. There is a “you’re not worth anything if you’re easy” meme floating in Argentina, which means an Argentine girl will never make it easy for you. It’s always a headache.

7. Argentine girls like sex, but on the surface the culture is not very sexually liberalized. For example I’ve never seen such conservative dress before; the girls never show cleavage and they think sexy is showing off their skinny arms. At the end of the night in a U.S. club, a significant number of people are making out. In Argentina it’s very few couples. You’ll find fast girls but on average they are slower than Americans.

8. In two months I’ve never seen an Argentine girl buzzed, tipsy, alegre, whatever. They just dance or talk all night. Plus there is no shooter culture like in the U.S. The nightspots don’t even have shot glasses.

9. Because Argentina does not have an easy pick-up environment, social circle is very important. Gringos who have done well with Argentine girls are ones that have enrolled in school for an extended period of time and built up a social circle. The advice that an American would give a friend to find a wife is the same an Argentine gives to get laid. The average notch count here has to be lower for both sexes.

10. In most cultures, when someone is staring at you, you look to see who it is. But the girls here will definitely not look at you if they know you are staring. If I’m walking on the sidewalk and notice a cute girl walking towards me, I avert eye contact and pretend I’m not paying attention until I feel her looking at me. Then I look at her eyes. She’ll panic and look away immediately. You are not supposed to know she is looking at you because that may mean she is interested. That’s how Argentine girls are.

In conclusion, the girls are a pain in the ass, but every system can be cracked—it’s just a matter of how long it takes. But why bother when Brazil is right next door?

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I fear your excitement about Brazil will lead to one of two things: either you will be disappointed because your expectations are sky high, or you will bang everything moving and get the clap. Manage expectations and strap up every time, my friend.

Brazil right next door? What are you waiting for? get yer ass over there, STAT! :)

The cultural differences in game are very important. I think its amusing when the so called pick up artists believe that the same IOIs and lines will work in NY, London, Hong Kong and Dubai. There is always a method, but chances are that the cultural differences in our society makes the differences sometimes quite difficult. Personally I think an interesting challenge is when a foreigner moves to the US and is in that in between cultures stage. You’re forced to use a varied game, or the same when you travel and meet women who want to be more American or spent time here.

I’m convinced cockblocking is a cultural phenomenon.

i’ve heard the same thing from a friend in belgium. the whole “fat girl CB” doesn’t seem to exist over there. maybe because there aren’t as many fat girls in belgium to fill those crappy low-skill cockblock jobs that skinny belgian girls just won’t do. they need to throw open the borders to fat american chicks.

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These are all great insights one could only glean from experiencing them first-hand. I’m glad that your cultural observations of my native country were so dead on but I would like to see them extend outside the club.

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damn, it sounds like a muslim society. guess catholics are just as bad. go to brazil!!! the girls are more exotic anyway.

I found it 1000 times easier to get laid by a random girl in Argentina. My Argentinian friend from there who I visited lays a new girl every week. I wouldn’t believe him but when I was there he nailed 4 different girls in 7 days. I nailed 2 different girls and I don’t even speak Spanish!

I am sorry you did not like their ways, and understand it to a certain extent. Argentine girls are tough, and have many flaws. On the other hand, while sometimes you seem to describe your ideal woman as this liberated one-night stand kind of girl who would not demand anything from you and just wants to have fun, in other posts you really look down on women who fell for your tricks and who you banged, as if they were victims of your predating game. So, although I enjoy your posts and think you are a nice guy deep inside, to be perfectly honest, part of me is proud that some of my co-nationals significantly challenged your “pump and dumping”.

Great insight.. Next time im down there i’ll definately read over these notes…

ive been to argentina twice.. and the second time I brought sand to the beach so i cant comment on the chick situation.

the first time in beunos aires i hooked up with a couple girls but nothing further than that.. then i headed to Pantagonia and met some chicks from spain so never bothered with the arginitines.

its interesting to hear your take… i’m beat cuz i hate dancing.. although now that you mention it the two girls i hooked up with down there i danced with…

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Illuminating stuff, good to know.

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we want a chart!
we want a chart!

like the one you had for spain and italy
i’m hoping you’ll post one at the end of your massive trip

Very similar to the situation in Puerto Rico, where I lived for a year. Still living under a very strong penumbra of Catholicism. (Yeah, I know — PR and some other Latin countries have a high rate of abortion which kind of dispels the Catholicism argument, but believe me, almost all of this stuff can be traced back to the Church’s influence, and that dies very hard.)

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