adminRio de Janeiro. — Brazil will deny a visa to Julien Blanc, a self-proclaimed pickup artist who travels around the world teaching men how to seduce women using techniques that include choking and intimidation.
Brazil’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement today that there are “enough elements” about Blanc’s background to deny him a visa.
Blanc, a Swiss-born dating coach at California-based Real Social Dynamics (RSD), advocates using physical aggression and emotional abuse to convince women to have sex, according to videos of his workshops on YouTube.
One of his pick-up techniques to “open” a woman is to approach the target and choke her before covering her mouth to keep her quiet.
A pie-chart, designed by Blanc as a cheat-sheet of his techniques and published on his Facebook profile, shows ”power and control” in the center, and slices describing how to “use coercion and threats, use intimidation, use emotional abuse, use isolation, deny, blame and minimise, use children, use economic abuse, use male privilege”.
According to RSD’s website, “bootcamp” workshops in Brazil are scheduled in Rio de Janeiro and Florianopolis in January, at a cost of $2 500 per participant. — Reuters.
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