You know how I won that beautiful wife of mine? I just was myself, just like the author of this book . . . a real dick!

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Studies in Crap:
How to Pick Up Girls!

Author: Eric Weber

Publisher: Symphony Press, New York

Date: 1970

Discovered at: Goodwill, Bonner Springs

The Cover Promises: Much that the book fails to back up.

Representative Quotes

Page 21: “The point of this story is not that the girl was 'bad' or 'fast' or 'avant garde.' All it indicates is that normal, healthy young chicks like sex. Want sex. And, most important, will be glad to have sex with you if you only ask them.”

Page 85: “March in a peace demonstration. Even if you're for war. I've heard countless stories of guys who have picked up fantastic broads in peace demonstrations.”

In his introduction to this “foolproof guide to meeting women,” author Eric Weber -- a sort of horn-dog Sherpa to the brave new world of 1970s promiscuity -- describes what he considers a familiar situation. You're a guy, walking down the street, and you see this girl: “Someone so absolutely stunning, so downright sexy, you actually find yourself running to catch up with her . . . For an instant you even consider rape.”

The good news: If you've studied Weber's system, you recognize that force isn't necessary. Instead, you've been hipped to a world-changing secret that gets a full chapter here: “Women Get Horny.” {Read on}

How to Pick Up Girls! - Eric Weber