What should you get your girlfriend for Valentine’s day? Where should you take her?

The answer: take her nowhere and spend nothing. Valentine’s day is a game that you can’t win. Here’s why:

Every attractive woman has a circle of orbiters just dying to spend money on her on Valentine’s day. Since these orbiters will be very generous in their attempts to buy her affection, there is no way that you can compete with them. Anything small you do will look dumb, because she could always get something better from one of the guys she’s “just friends” with.

More importantly, you do not want to compete with them. This puts you in the category of an orbiter/provider. Instead of looking to you for sex, she’ll begin to look to you for support and gifts, while looking to others for sex. Even if you do something amazing and creative, it won’t seem that way on Valentine’s day. It’ll seem standard, because everybody is doing stuff like this for their girlfriends.

The solution: tell any girl you’re dating that you don’t celebrate Valentine’s day. If you want to do something special for her, do it on some other day. It’ll seem much more meaningful.

Here are some other PUA opinions on Valentine’s Day:

From The Attraction Chronicles:

I think that the Valentine’s Day section of all stores should have a sign that says “No one who has been in a relationship less than 6-12 months allowed”.

Why’s that?

Because, if you “Go Valentine’s Day” on a girl that doesn’t know you very well (especially an unusually attractive one), you’ll probably only be talking to her for another week or two.

From Sean Newman’s Blog:

Fuck Valentines’ Day. Let the suckers spend their money that day. You have what women really want. Fun, sexy times, and real connections.
Right?

RIGHT?!!?

A female perspective, from Dolly’s blog:

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It starts with a rash. Bits of red everywhere: in drugstores, in storefronts, in coffee shops and restaurants. Here it comes again: the parade of roses, crimson hearts, cloying plush animals, glistening boxes of candy, and those damn chubby cupids pointing their arrows in every direction but yours. Pain and irritation are sure to follow. Once again corporate America has conspired to remind you that on this day in mid-February, you are alone.

What if you’re (un?)fortunate enough not to be alone? Then this is the day you must assess your togetherness to just the right degree, via edibles and gifts (or even edible gifts, if that’s your thing). Whether it’s love, like, or lust, be sure to get it right, or you’ll risk joining the ranks of those poor suckers who have to navigate the bloody rivers of Valentine’s Day in a single-person kayak.

And my personal favorite, from Social Hitch Hiker:

It’s not Valentine’s Day, it’s PILLOW FIGHT Day!