Quote: (08-16-2013 05:04 PM)MrXY Wrote:
The idea that American blacks invented game or understand women better-which I keep hearing repeated- is ludicrous.
Read Ovid, or Shakespeare, or Casanova, or Mencken or a book called "Modern Woman and How to Manage Her written in 1910, or The Way of a Man with a Maid, 1908 or other old pornographic novels.
I was thinking about doing a post on this. Ars Amatoria is basically the original game guide. Ovid wrote that in 2 A.D. Books 1-2 are game, book 3 is girl game - how to wear makeup, fake orgasms, etc.
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR...oveBkI.htm
Literally starts out with a day game guide, a data sheet with *specific spots*:
"Don’t miss the Portico that takes its name
from Livia its creator, full of old masters:
or where the daring Danaids prepare to murder their poor husbands,
and their fierce father stands, with out-stretched sword.."
....
"But hunt for them, especially, at the tiered theatre:
that place is the most fruitful for your needs.
There you’ll find one to love, or one you can play with,
one to be with just once, or one you might wish to keep."
Relationship vs. one night stand girls..
Greek kamaki present game?
"Bring her your flattering words and play the lover:
and, whoever you are, add a humble prayer.
Achilles was moved by prayer to grant Hector’s body to Priam:
a god’s anger’s deflected by the voice of prayer.
Make promises: what harm can a promise do?
Anyone can be rich in promises.
Hope lasts, if she’s once believed in,
a useful, though deceptive, goddess.
If you’ve given, you can quite reasonably be forgotten:
she carried it off, and now she’s nothing to lose."
Master the subtle-brag:
"What’s harder than stone, softer than water?
Yet soft water carves the hardest stone."
Look smooth:
"Neatness pleases, a body tanned from exercise:
a well fitting and spotless toga’s good:
no stiff shoe-thongs, your buckles free of rust,
no sloppy feet for you, swimming in loose hide:
don’t mar your neat hair with an evil haircut:
let an expert hand trim your head and beard."
Direct game:
"Ah! The youth has too much faith in his own beauty,
if he waits until she asks him first.
The man must approach first: speak the words of entreaty:
she courteously receives his flattering prayers.
To win her, ask her: she only wants to be asked:
give her the cause and the beginning of your longing."
Commenting on the multi-faceted nature of the game:
"One mode won’t suit you for every age-group:
the older hinds spot a trap from further off.
If the simple find you cunning, and the modest crude,
the poor things will straightaway mistrust themselves.
So it happens that she who fears to trust an honest man,
falls to the embrace of some low rascal."
Push-pull:
"When you’ve more confidence that you’ll be missed,
when your absence far away will cause her worry,
give her a rest: the fields when rested repay the loan,
and parched earth drinks the heavenly rain.
...
But brief delays are best: fondness fades with time,
love vanishes with absence, and new love appears."
Harem management:
"Indulge, but secretly veil your sins, with restraint:
it’s no glory to you to be seeking out wrongdoing.
Don’t give gifts another girl could spot,
or have set times for your assignations.
And lest a girl catch you out in your favourite haunts
don’t meet all of them in one place.
And always look closely at your wax tablets, whenever you write:
lest much more is read there than you sent."