I’m in Paris for about three days, with some time to kill.
How did this come to be? Its complicated, but its really ultimately simple. The simple explanation is that I’m single. Being single means I can have time to kill in places like Paris, not having to be on someone else’s agenda, schlepping through overpriced stores to buy the same stuff you can get at home for less. Its like living the gay lifestyle, albeit a little lonelier, but without the disgusting anal sex.
And what does a guyinist do in Paris with time to kill? I know what you’re thinking. A married guyinist with time to kill would be doing hookers. But a single guyinist? Yes, I am staying in a red light district (bordering, if not in, Pigalle), but a single guyinist has plenty of hookers at home he can do. There’s no need to waste precious time in Paris getting ass that can be gotten back at home, where if I like the ass, it’ll be around for me to have again and again.
For a guy from Tampa, doing hookers in Paris is sort of like a guy traveling from Paris to Tampa to sample French restaurants. If you’re from Paris, when you visit Tampa, I recommend Mons Venus strip club as our topic local offering – in fact, until I get too famous to have the time, shoot me an email and I’ll even take you there. Afterward, any grub will do.
Does a single American guyinist in Paris spend some extra time going to museums? Again, no. That’s what married guys have to do when they visit Paris with their wives, and that’s what backpackers do when they travel around on their parents’ money after graduating from college. I don’t have to cave in to the dicates of a wife, and I don’t have to explain the trip to my parents, so I don’t have to shop, and I don’t have to stare at paintings.
No, what a single American guyinist does in Paris is what my fellow artists and intellectuals have done for centuries. Like Proust, Wilde, hundreds of fucking guys I’ve never heard of, and Jim Morrison, I’m creating. I’m sitting at La Palette sidewalk cafe on Rue de la Seine in St. Germain, putting pen to paper, so to speak (warning to future visitors: supposedly, this was the place remaining on the Left Bank with real artists and intellectuals, but it appears that may not be happening any more since word got out – I see only one guy on a laptop, and almost everyone else here looks like they can buy me and sell me. And the place is a fortune – I just paid 5 Euros for a glass of pear juice, and another 5 for a Diet Coke).
I had planned to spend all day doing this, expecting to be inspired to post with prolifity. Thanks to the presumptively-willful incompetence of Delta baggage handling and its contractors, I’ve spent far too much of my time here tracking down luggage, its past fuckin’ 7 o’clock and I’m just starting.
So here are my initial observations.
When I was preparing for my trip, I read in the Time Out guide about a new Parisian “seduction school,” L’Ecole de la Seduction, which supposedly teaches guys “skills” in meeting women. Its run by a chick, so its probably clueless, and costs at least about $10,000 in U.S. money. According to the lengthy blurb on the dating service, most of the guy clients in the agency have never slept with women other than hookers. On the other hand, the women who sign up for the service – undoubtedly, some of those very same hookers - have dated a lot but never been able to land a commitment.
The school claims a 90% success rate, a success being “a constructive, amorous relationship with somebody in the year following the lessons.”Of course, for that kind of scratch, the school could afford to just pay people to fake it. The minimum tuition would cover 40 fucks at 200 Euro each, which appears to be an available rate for a one-nighter, but girls tend to be cheaper for regulars. On the other side, women consider something a “relationship” if they are dating a guy out of their league for five minutes, so its easy to round up guys for “relationships” with the kind of moolah per student the school is taking in.
Anyway, I’ve met multiple women who complain about French guys. They say they are too skinny from eating health food, and look old for their age. IMO, they also seem a little on the effeminate/high-strung side; they look, and seem, like they need to hit the weights. If any of you French guys are reading and want to be able to get it “free,” skip the seduction school, read a free pickup artist website (I highly recommend Roissy), and hit the gym.
I’m nothing to write home about, but I’ve been getting an inordinate amount of attention and consistently positive body language, and I haven’t exactly been religious about hitting the gym. France isn’t one of those places – like Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe – where you think about finding a girl to bring back to the U.S., yet I remember a friend of mine – just kind of a regular guy – who well past his 50th birthday managed to land and bring back a hot 28 year-old French chick. It seems that France is a good hunting ground for hot young chicks. As I am writing this, two seriously gorgeous chicks sat at the table next to me and close, and their body language is unmistakable. They are seated across the table from each other, but both angled toward me. In the States, the body language I get is usually so poor that I still wouldn’t even know what the one next to me’s face looks like. Its at least the fourth time in three days chicks looked like they wanted to go to war over me. French guys are making it easy for me.
Moi! 47 year-old, 5’9″ me! Me, even with only remnants of my wardrobe! My height-enhancing shoes (see my Tall Man Shoes banner at the bottom of the page) hadn’t even made it to Paris yet the first three times!
Of course, what the chicks may really be unhappy about has nothing to do with French guys being skinny, and, contrary to reputation, quite friendly I should add. It could just be that they don’t seem to drive expensive cars. Its a city full of restaurants – for tourists. French guys apparently don’t pay for sex indirectly – they go right to the source. And when they do go to restaurants, it appears they do little eating, and let the women – who greet them with friendly kisses - show up first.
Or it could just be that, it being August, the alphas are at the beach on Holiday (for my fellow Americans, that’s that lengthy period each year when Europeans don’t have to go to work or even use vacation days – its the European equivalent of Labor Day, but it lasts around a month), and the service-worker types are just about all who is left. But I doubt it – the payah deprogramming dating service isn’t something I found on some obscure website; its in the leading Paris guide book.
Also, it seems like every neighborhood in France has some colorful history involving prostitution. In the Pigalle, that history obviously continues, with small bars filled with half-naked women sitting around, and, at 3 AM, hordes of guys hanging out on the street, late-night snacking, all appearing to have the type of type of relaxed attitude that accompanies freshly-drained balls.
I suspect what’s really going on is that French guys have – like increasing numbers of American guys – simply given up on their women. Unlike, for instance, in Japan, with its massive, celibate, “herbivore” trend, French guys apparently haven’t given up on the vaginas and breasts of their women – they’ve just given up on the shopping bags, bling, and bassinettes women require. The aforementioned dating service is for some of them surely only to make their parents happy, like 21 YO backpackers wasting an entire day half-consciously trapsing through the Louvre, knowing little more than that the Mona Lisa was painted by Picasso (that’s a joke).
As in so many other spheres – remember “Freedom Fries?” – we have a lot to learn from the French. Work/life balance, nuclear power, urban planning, and large-scale Guyinism. After cultivating a reputation for being the world’s greatest lovers, it appears that French guys aren’t resting on their laurels – it appears that they simply don’t care anymore.
They’ve moved on.
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, Guyinism
P.S. Sorry about the lousy editing – too many hot, approachable chicks sitting next to me.
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