The Construction of a working Pickup Line
To pick up someone [Slang] means to interact with someone of sexual interest, who is probably a stranger at the start of the conversation, with the intention of a ultimately having a romantic relation with that person.
A Pickup Line is an opening line used to start a conversation with someone who could be a potential mate. The use of a pickup line normally depends on the character of the usually male aproacher and is used to select the type of woman the man is looking for. Recent researches have found out that different personalities react to different methods. Which is very interesting due to the relation to selection processes done by man and woman to succeed at finding the right partner to mate.
Overall those researches of Chat-up lines, which is British English for Pickup Lines, seem to indicated that the best way to approach people is to make them laugh. Don’t be a joke and make a fool of yourself, just be funny and self-confident.
Here is a rough overgeneralization for the 4 types of men women see when they are approached with Pickup Lines, which are the Nice guy, the Provider, the Leader and the Bad Boy. There is no need to go into detail, you can read those researches up in the whole somewhere else, let’s just make clear that in case you are looking for a healthy relationship being, not acting like, the leader should be the way to go.
A leader has self confidence, class, humor and most important knows what he wants. The easiest way to display those traits is through funny lines showing you got your act together.
You probably always heard, be yourself and everything will work out. This quote is one of the truest things ever said, but you have to know yourself before you can be yourself. Find out what you like and dislike, develop some skills and first of all, learn to be funny and playful.
Overall it does not matter how you approach a woman, there are different types of ladies that fall for different lines, which is just some kind of pre selection and should not be taken personally. In case a woman searches a leader and you are just a nice guy, you can only learn how to be a leader. It’s natural selection that is taking the lead here.
Let’s sum this up
In case you want to create an easy pickup line, make it a funny one. In case you want to succeed you have to learn how to be self confident enough to make that line work.
Some examples of applied Pickup Lines can be found in the article Quotes to start a conversation.
