I don't see how that is the case.

Lets take nature, say a bower bird. As you may or may not know how they attract a mate a by building a bower (nest).. the female then come down and inspect the nest to see if it meets there standard and if it does then they mate. Thats the "attraction" switch. If we were teaching pick-up to bower birds who are unsuccessful with women, we teach them how to make a great bower.

How can pick-up and attraction be different things. We learn pick-up (and i'm on about pick-up here, not any other phrase used on this site), to learn how to flip the attraction switch, no other reason, that's why every book / DVD / whatever on pickup talks about attracting in them. If it wasn't why would they talk about it.

Retro