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The Truth: Sex, Love, Commitment, and the Puzzle of the Male Mind Kindle Edition

by Neil Strauss (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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This is not a journey that was undertaken for journalistic purposes. It is a painfully honest account of a life crisis that was forced on me by my own behavior and its consequences.

"As such, it requires sharing a lot of things I'm not proud of—and a few things I feel like I should regret a whole lot more than I actually do. Because, unfortunately, I am not the hero in this tale. I am the villain."

So begins Neil Strauss's long-awaited follow-up to The Game, the funny and slyly instructive work of immersive journalism that jump-started the international "seduction community" and made Strauss a household name—revered or notorious—among single men and women alike.

In The Truth, Strauss takes on his greatest challenge yet: Relationships. And in this wild and highly entertaining ride, he explores the questions that men and women are asking themselves every day:

  • Is it natural to be faithful to one person for life?
  • Do alternatives to monogamy lead to better relationships and greater happiness?
  • What draws us to the partners we choose?
  • Can we keep passion and romance from fading over time?

His quest for answers takes him from Viagra-laden free-love orgies to sex addiction clinics, from cutting-edge science labs to modern-day harems, and, most terrifying of all, to his own mother.

What he discovered changed everything he knew about love, sex, relationships, and, ultimately, himself.

Searingly honest and compulsively readable, The Truth just may have the same effect on you.

If The Game taught you how to meet members of the opposite sex, The Truth will teach you how to keep them.

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“The epiphanies revealed are simultaneously incredibly obvious and richly profound... I want you to read this book. I want your partners to read this book. More than that, I want you to think critically about what it says about you and the world around you and your romantic relationships.” (Grantland)

“[Strauss] charms us with confessions of his screwed-up childhood and the many idiotic beliefs and mistakes that have plagued him, then upsells us on the notion that we can be masters of the universe-and he can teach us how. Color me seduced.” (Laura Miller, Slate)

“The Truth is fantastic...In the course of exorcising his pickup artist demons, Strauss learns and exposes the barriers to intimacy that so many of us are carrying around. If you’ve struggled with monogamy, or loved someone who has, this book is revelatory.” (Chicago Tribune)

“A brutally honest and emotionally exhaustive account of his search for sexual freedom...Yes, there are orgies and swinger parties, but there are also far more intense discussions about the meaning of intimacy and the underlying causes of sexual behavior.” (Booklist)

“The guy who wrote The Game and lived The Game searches for love and learns that it’s way, way harder. And funnier.” (Joel Stein, Time magazine)

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In this highly acclaimed classic, New York Times and Rolling Stone journalist Neil Strauss embarks on a deeply personal quest to understand how to make relationships work. And to discover why infidelity, divorce, and marital unhappiness rates are so high—and what we can do about it. He explores love addiction and love avoidance; sex addiction and sex anorexia; enmeshment and abandonment; and, most important, why so many people attract the partners most likely to wound them. What he discovers about himself—and what you will discover about yourself and your partners from reading this—will change the way you date, love, and commit. It will also change your most central relationship: the one you have with yourself. “The sins of the parents are the destinies of their children,” he writes. “Unless the children wake up and do something about it.”

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A former New York Times cultural critic and Rolling Stone contributing editor, Neil Strauss is the author of ten New York Times bestselling books, including The Truth, The Game, Rules of the Game, Emergency, and Everyone Loves You When You're Dead. He is also the coauthor of the New York Times bestsellers The Creative Act with Rick Rubin, I Can't Make This Up with Kevin Hart, The Dirt with Mötley Crüe, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star with Jenna Jameson, and The Long Hard Road Out of Hell with Marilyn Manson. His serial podcast To Live & Die in LA reached number one on the iTunes charts, and was named by the Associated Press as the best podcast of the year.

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This book is deep, so deep. I'm a person who is after a relationship but usually I'm a player. It is a full cycle with 'The Game'.The Truth shows how can u build a healthy relationship and how to evolve and be happy in it. Author's experiences are thought and dirty but deep and authentic. I read most of Neil's books but I didn't expect that this will me THAT good.2 days ago I spoke with Neil himself
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Shuffler
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most important & practical books you can read to be better at the art of living.
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2015
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Let me begin by saying I read A LOT. I've researched a lot on relationships, dynamics of them, sex, and more than anything psychology of how things work; mainly to find the answers I've been looking for about myself & my relationships.

This is with no doubt the most important book I read that helped me understand myself & learn how to find my own flaws. The thing about Neil is he is very growth minded, meaning he puts a lot of effort through his journey to go to the limits of human sexuality and relationships and more importantly deep into his own soul to find the answers. While the answer to relationships is different person to person (as he mentioned at the end of the book) this book shows you how to approach things (mainly the last part) and how to learn about yourself to take care of your inner child (as Neil calls it) and get better. Not only this book helped me learn a lot about dynamics of different forms on relationships (from monogamous ones to open none monogamous relationships) but more importantly than ANYTHING it helped me dig deep in my own emotions and soul to find my own issues, problems and behaviors toward my partners.

This is the most important book I read this year and I think you should too. Regardless of your gender or age or your relationship issues. This book is not only about relationships, it's about finding things in yourself. learning why we react to certain things and shows how the path to happiness in to take out the issues we all have one by one and fill those holes with healthy normal things. I suggest you to keep an open mind, and understand the whole process and analogies reading this book rather than just focusing on the story.

Neil's writing is exciting, funny and full of practical approaches on how to be a better person. This is one of the few stories that I have read and learned a long side of it. With each experience, thought, and adventure, Neil steps back and looks at it from different angles. This is a blunt, funny and honest book about relationships. Neil's openness in exposing himself, his thoughts and dark side throughout the book was something that helped me learn to unleash myself from the ways society has told us to believe growing up. This book is about a journey of self discovery, to be at peace with yourself, not just relationships & I owe the writer for the impact he had one me.
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Allan Groves
5.0 out of 5 stars The Truth
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2016
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"Love is a cage only when you fell indebted to it, constrained by it, responsible to its owner."

If you've read "The Game", "The Truth" is a must. About 6 years ago a friend introduced me to "The Game" (One of Neil Strauss's previous books), and I remember devouring it in a week. I was living in LA at the time and never knew about the amount of work and strategy that some people were willing to go through to seduce women. I (like many) had a much more romantic view of love, sex, and relationships. That being said, "The Game" opened my eyes to a whole new way of approaching my romantic and/or lustful pursuits. Oddly enough, I ended up running into Mystery more than once in LA and spent time with him picking out targets, creating distractions, and getting phone numbers.

Though I was never a "pick up artist", I always wondered what my life would look like if I made picking up girls a full-time job -- or at the very least, put in the kind of hours some of these guys did in attracting, seducing and dating their dream girls. Would I find the love of my life? Would I find the loves of my life? Would I find that love is an illusion? Or would I grow tired of it all and just want to settle down with someone who didn't require so much "work"? Well... Neil has written another book specifically for me to answer those questions (or so it seems).

The Truth (I suspect) will be a tale that is both familiar and unfamiliar to many guys who have felt trapped in a relationship or found themselves wondering if there was more. Familiar, because Monogamy perhaps by nature leaves us to ask these questions and unfamiliar because Neil shows us just what one is capable of doing if one abandons a relationship and jumps fully into a search that almost leaves no crevice unexplored. However, even through all his exploits I never felt completely abandoned as a reader. He was still someone who I could trust to articulate just what was happening, his interpretation of it, and that he was still on planet earth. (Unlike many so-called relationship and seduction gurus). Probably because Neil never comes across too teacher-like or preacher-like, (though there are many great quotes and lessoned learned throughout). Overall you can tell he's a smart guy, who like most us, wants to experience all that life has to offer -- and sex and relationships seem to be the place that can give the most to that reality and take away the most.

I think overall this was a book that had to be written. Especially by someone from the so-called "pick-up community". It's a reality check. It's an exploration into possibilities and a convincing argument for why many of us (most of us) end up sticking with what seem to be the societal trend of monogamy. It's not necessarily out of weakness to the pressures of culture, but because for many of us (most of us) it is truly the best way to live, love, and be happy.
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Nick Matheson
5.0 out of 5 stars the Truth will set you free
Reviewed in Canada on February 24, 2024
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Brilliant, funny, and insightful writing about the journey back to love. Lots to be learned from someone else’s experience to lessen one’s own mistakes and become more conscious of one’s relational stance. Glad he made it home.
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Cliente Kindle
5.0 out of 5 stars Muito bom livro
Reviewed in Brazil on October 2, 2022
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Este livro abre sua mente em relação a monogamia e poligamia, principalmente para os praticantes do pua que geralmente visam a poligamia como o melhor estilo de vida.
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Kaitou
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best book on relationship
Reviewed in India on May 3, 2021
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I have read about Neil's work before and his advice really work (given in previous books). But this book will answer your deep rooted questions. Not only that, it will make you think about relationship and their impact on your life. I think this book should be given to every boy or girl once they turn 18 so it will help them from making a lot of bad decisions in life. I thank you Neil Strauss, this book was something I needed to read. And universe delivered to me on right time.
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Rodrigo Pérez
5.0 out of 5 stars God first read of Strauss
Reviewed in Mexico on March 28, 2018
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A story with a good variety of experiences which may give you very interesting insights to ponder about. Easy and fun writin, definitely not a step by step guide on how to handle relationships, but that's exactly the good part.
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Kerrie
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic read
Reviewed in Australia on November 24, 2021
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Really great book with excellent insights. There’s an lesson in there for anyone who has ever struggled with relationships, either as an addict or avoidant
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