Seduction

The study of seduction is still vastly more scientific and practical than anything advised by mainstream advice and social programming. Mainstream advice isn't given because it has been tested (even non-rigorously) and shown to work, but rather because it is accepted as an article of faith (and those who question it are often subject to strong disapproval). For example, where is the evidence that supplication or hiding one's sexuality around women is effective? There isn't any. Those behaviors are only accepted out of some combination of tradition and/or political correctness.