Summary: Sometimes, whether or not you score with a woman has as much or more to do with her than with you. Women go through cycles where they alternate between piles of casual sex and swearing off of casual sex to find a boyfriend. In her casual phase, you can be decent-looking with decent game and catch her on a horny night and you're in. In her boyfriend phase, her standards might be insanely high.


Women go through sex-relationship cycles. They have casual sex with a bunch of guys. Sometimes it’s just sex, sometimes they catch feelings and the guy doesn’t want a relationship. Eventually, they get sick of the assholes, the bars, dating apps, and decide they’re done with this and they only want serious relationships. So they go on dates for awhile while pretending they’re not casual sex girls. Eventually, they either don’t find anybody good after a few months of looking, or find somebody they like and things don’t work out, or get into a relationship for a few months after which it inevitably ends. At that point, they’re on the rebound and they go back to having lots of casual sex. They’re rebelling. They did what they were supposed to. They were good girls and tried to play by the rules and it didn’t work out and get them a great husband, so what’s the point. Might as well have some fun. So they go back to acting out sexually. And the cycle repeats.

In some ways, the manosphere gets women wrong, because the manosphere tries to apply the male way of thinking to women’s lives in an attempt to explain what women do and why. We come up with all of these biological drivers and incentive-based logical reasons why women do these silly things that seem to fit the situation and explain what we’re seeing, only to find that some theory we came up with is right maybe half the time, while we have to invent other theories for why the other half of the time things went differently.

We have a hard time admitting that sometimes, it’s not about us, how we look, our game, or anything we missed or did wrong. Sometimes, it’s about the woman and where she is in her sex-relationship cycle.

Here’s an example:

No woman alive has ever thought to herself: “This guy I’m sitting across from is pleasant enough, but he’s not that hot. I’m not that attracted to him. If he were hot, I’d have a casual hook-up with him. But he’s only average, so I’m going to insist on a relationship first. Because I totally want a relationship with a guy I’m only kinda attracted to. That way, I can spend most of the relationship making excuses to have barely any sex with him while I get some money and attention out of him, then dump him later for a hot guy I’m actually attracted to.”

That’s silly, but some guys actually think this is how women operate.

Women don’t want a relationship with a guy they wouldn’t also have casual sex with. If a woman turns a guy down for casual sex but is willing to pursue a relationship with him, the reason isn’t “he’s not hot enough for casual sex, only slightly attractive enough for a relationship”. A relationship with a guy she’s not attracted to is stupid. Having a boyfriend she doesn’t want to fuck and spending her days trying to avoid sex and milk money out of him isn’t fun for any woman. Only the small percentage of women who are actual gold diggers specifically seek that out.

If a woman wants a relationship with a guy but doesn’t want casual sex with that guy, this has more to do with where she is in the sex-relationship cycle than with how hot the guy is.

If you catch a woman who’s specifically looking for casual sex and specifically not looking for a relationship, you don’t have to be some kind of upper echelon alpha man who’s so hot, women will do anything for his dick. You just have to be decent-looking and have game.

In her casual phase, she’s sick of playing by the rules when she never gets what she wants anyway. So you don’t even have to be that hot. You can just be an average guy who meets her minimum appearance standard and knows game on a night when it’s been awhile and she’s horny, and you might get lucky. She’s rebelling against doing what she’s supposed to and is acting out sexually during those times.

If you catch a woman who’s specifically looking for a boyfriend and specifically trying to avoid casual sex, that’s when her standards go way up and you have to be an exceptional man for her to make an exception for you.

During her serious boyfriend phase, your odds of scoring go way down, because now she’s going to insist on a date instead of just drinks for 30 minutes with the understanding that you’re going back to your place to fuck if you hit if off. In that situation, you need to pull off three things to score: You need to be really cute, really fun with great game, and completely unsuitable for a relationship but without being an asshole full of deal-breakers. It’s a very tough balance to strike. She needs to be sitting next to you and needs to not feel emotionally attracted to you because you’re a little cocky and immature at a time when she’s looking for a boyfriend. But she needs to feel physically attracted to you and think you’re cute, fun, and like you as a person. At that point, her brain will flip a switch and she’ll think, “I know I’m looking for a boyfriend right now, but I’m already out with this guy and he’s fun, and while I don’t want to date him, it’s been two weeks since I had sex…what the heck let’s do it.”

Or you could just lie and pretend you’re interested in a relationship. That works, too.

Anyway, no woman wants a relationship with a guy who’s so unattractive that she would never, ever have considered him for casual sex. That’s stupid. If she wants a relationship but doesn’t want casual sex, it’s because she’s in her boyfriend phase and she either likes the guy enough emotionally to not want to risk outing herself as a slut by fucking him early or doesn’t like the guy enough to make an exception for him.

Here’s another example:

No woman alive has ever thought to herself: “This guy I’m sitting next to is so hot and so much fun and I really like him and I want to be his girlfriend. However, he keeps insisting that he only wants casual sex. While I’d like a relationship with him, I recognize that casual sex is all I can get, and it’s worth being just a casual partner to him just to be around a guy who’s so amazing, even though not being in a relationship with him hurts me emotionally.”

That’s silly, too. But some guys think this is how women operate.

In truth, really young women (typically age 19-21) will sometimes try to use sex to get a guy into a relationship at least once or twice. After that doesn’t work a couple of times, they wise up and stop trying that and just have casual sex for the sex. Once a woman is past that stage, women don’t have casual sex with guys they like emotionally. In fact, they specifically seek out men they don’t want a relationship with when they’re looking for casual partners.

Guys from Tinder or strangers in a bar that they don’t know much about and only make small talk with for an hour over drinks before fucking? Those guys are perfect because there’s no chance she’ll like them. She can have fun fucking them once, then never see them again. If she does see a guy a few times, hang out a little bit, and catch feelings, she’ll push for a relationship. After he says no, she usually stops fucking him (though she may come back and fuck him again later the next time she’s in the casual part of her cycle if he maintains his frame when she ends things). She knows that having sex with a guy she wants a relationship with is going to hurt her, not help her win him over. So she’ll end things with him if the push for a relationship doesn’t work. After this happens with a few guys, she’ll complain that all men are assholes and she’s sick of the casual game, then switch from her casual phase to her boyfriend phase, until the cycle repeats.

Sometimes, if a woman doesn’t end up in your bed two hours after meeting you, it’s okay. It’s not always you. Sometimes it’s her and her current place in the sex-relationship cycle. The best you can do for yourself is assume every woman is in her boyfriend phase. Keep yourself looking good and acting fun, and work on finding that balance of just enough cocky/immature game that women don’t want to date you seriously, but not so much that you’re driving women off.