The Refined PUA

Leverage your attractiveness

Over the last year, I’ve been traveling with a few wings from different backgrounds and I’ve always found it funny how one guy’s “pussy paradise” can be another guy’s nightmare. Bucharest nailed that point home for me. On paper it looks perfect: big city, plenty of attractive women1. You’d think it’s a daygame jackpot. For me it wasn’t the best, but still decent. I’ll admit I was biased though since I pulled an SDL on my second day with a blue-eyed Moldovan Romanian. Meanwhile my fair-skinned, Nordic-looking wings were struggling hard. That trip made me really stop and think about how much looks matter in game.

There’s a ton of bullshit floating around the PUA community when it comes to the role of looks in game. While it’s not a killer factor, it does play a role in defining your so-called ping range2. By that I don’t even mean how handsome or jacked you are but rather the attractiveness of certain male traits in a certain society. In other words, your ping range is not an absolute value but a relative one that highly depends on the context in which you are operating. I used to live in Japan where less manly traits, or even feminine traits in men, are considered more attractive. Japanese society seems to have a general tendency to adore cuteness more than any other society I have experienced. Walking around the red-light district of Shinjuku in Tokyo, where dozens of so-called host clubs3 can be found, gives you an idea of the idealized look in Japanese society. Funny enough, when I was there, I found that those ideals mostly held for the locals, while the girls seemed to prefer more manly traits in foreigners, at least that’s what I was told on many occasions.

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Another striking case is Poland, which in my view is hands down the best place to game if you’re on the darker side. If you’re Indian, for example, good luck finding a better spot. Poland is basically paradise. Same goes for the Balkans where girls have a clear taste for dark features. This really struck me when I first went there after spending most of my life in Germany, right next door. Germany is a prime example of western countries where dark skin or Mediterranean looks still often get treated as low value. Things are shifting slowly, but it still shows in my results4. And it’s not just race. Western girls in general just don’t have the same curiosity about foreigners as girls in places like Poland or Hungary. To me it ties more to how many foreigners come to actually live and work there, not just how many tourists drop in for a weekend.

The bottom line is that depending on how you look, you will have a different experience wherever you go. This is to say: don’t ever believe whatever you hear or read about how easy or difficult girls are in certain countries. Always go and check for yourself!


  1. If you like olive-skinned petites.

  2. Credits go to Nick Krauser and Steve Jabba who coined the term.

  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_and_hostess_clubs

  4. A considerable percentage of my lays in Germany are girls from different countries.

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