Finally, I know Mark Manson has some followers on her but he was a 27 year old kid when he wrote that Models book. His most recent stuff has a title including the phrase "bang women like a rock star". This guy is a blogger. He's not an expert at anything except self proclaiming expertise and getting betrayed, divorced and desperately single guys to buy his self published pdf books. It's a cottage industry of "empowering" divorced men but I see it as the seedy underbelly of bashing, blaming and exploiting women. A victimhood trap many divorced men fall into. When I was a kid I "banged" plenty of women. I'm NOT proud of it. I don't brag about it and/or teach others how to do the same. I have repented for it. It's part of the reason my wife and I ended up where we did. That being said, you (all) ARE a man (men) and I respect your ability to discern what is good, bad, proper and helpful or not in your own life.
I don't recognize Manson's approach in your description. The subtitle of the book is "Attract women through honesty" and is organized around the principles of honest living, honest action and honest communication. I'd be surprised if you read the book and came away thinking that he bashes women. He devotes a good deal of his book to getting your act together, learning who you are and approaching women with vulnerability. He explains in his book why he's in opposition to the "pick-up artist" industry that is closer to what you describe.
The purpose of learning to attract women is not necessarily to "bang a lot of women", but to heal the relationship that some men have to women. Some guys, Nice Guys especially, get into bad relationships and hang in there because they fear the prospect of finding someone else. They might even get into R knowing that it's not a very good match, but it's better than nothing. Months of psychoanalysis told me that compromising your desires leads to a lot of the problems that take men to these boards.
The part of the book that I recommended to mahhhty and many others is the first few chapters about attraction, neediness and vulnerability. It's in line with DB and NMMNG and everything else credible I read about self-awareness.
Anyway, if you want to debate the merit of Models, let's take it to my thread as I'd rather not further hijack mahhhty's.
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