New York University professor Scott Galloway is advising schools to teach young men “how to pick up women” as a skill while sounding the alarm over “AI sexbots.”

Galloway believes that “mating dynamics” should be part of what young men learn in higher education. He contends that “approaching women and making them feel safe is a skill.”

On Steven Bartlett’s “Diary of a CEO” podcast, the professor spoke at length about artificial intelligence and “AI sexbots” as well as admonishing men to “moderate consumption of porn” to avoid taking “less risks with women outside the house.” The episode is titled, “It’s An Emergency! The Number of Men Having No Sex Increased 180%.”

The Stern School of Business marketing professor cautioned that digital facsimiles of real-life connections are robbing men of the opportunity to learn and improve other key social skills.

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“We are developing these digital analogs of life that create low-entry, low-risk relationships. You think that’s not a bad thing, well it is because it leads to loneliness and depression,” Galloway asserted.

“Pursuing someone and developing the skills, deciding to put on a clean shirt, maybe showering more often, maybe hitting the gym every once and a while, and maybe texting when you are unsure how this person feels about you. And figuring out how to act, so you can develop a relationship, that is the victory, that is the payoff,” Galloway insisted.

“Fewer and fewer men are engaging in those risks and I think AI and the combination with sex bots is going to create an industry where men start having relationships with algorithms and dolls. Supposedly the sexbot industry is going to be bigger than the domestic box office receipts of all the theatres in the US within five to six years,” he continued.

“So we are going to have men having relationships with machines and dolls as opposed to other humans, it creates a level of depression. The end game is a relationship, a romantic partner is one of the keys to a happy life and most studies play that out,” Galloway added.

The professor has previously advised Gen Z to stop “bed rotting” and get out of the house. He pointed out that young men are discouraged from engaging in character-building activities such as going “out in the physical world” and expressing “human interest” while “risking rejection.”

“The only thing you know that has happened in someone who’s very successful professionally and personally is they have developed the skills to endure rejection.”

“The ability to endure that rejection is absolutely the key to success.”

Scott Galloway on The Diary of A CEO… pic.twitter.com/OZt2xxayMd

— Ryan Scanlon (@Scantron__) October 3, 2023

He also provided tips for young people to build real-life connections while avoiding online distractions.

“When I coach young men I ask them to get out their phones and I look at their screen time and I think, what do you have as a young person, you have a lack of financial capital but you have a lot of human capital and that’s really important… time,” Galloway noted.

“So we are going to think of your time as money. Now how are you going to invest it, look at your current portfolio. I ask them to take out their phones and between Twitter, TikTok, and porn it’s so easy to find a minimum of 10 or sometimes up to 50 hours a week, and we are going to reallocate it,” he stated.

Galloway advised that reallocating time to “make money” is crucial to building self-esteem. He then said young men should do an activity that puts them in front of strangers in order to build people skills.

After that step, he advised them to “moderate the consumption of porn” as that would give them the “mojo” to find a romantic interest.

Scott Galloway – “If you want to punch above your weight class economically, or romantically, then get out a spoon and get ready to eat sh*t. That is a prerequisite to that kind of success”. #loveit #enduringrejection

— Matt Sliedrecht (@mattjhs) October 2, 2023

“One of the only reasons I graduated from UCLA was because one of my motivations for going to class wasn’t because I wanted to learn, not only that I needed to learn to graduate, but the prospect of potentially meeting a woman,” Galloway recounted.

“If I had the access to porn that young men do now I’m not sure that mojo would have been as great to get out of the house as often,” he remarked.

“To tell young men not to engage in porn is sort of ridiculous but look at it analytically would you be more inclined to get out of the house and take risks, engage in the victory, and engage what it is to be a man and a mammal and ensured that fire was still there,” the professor commented.

“I think spending less time online [is important]. Every aspect of your life is a sh**** version of the analog version that can happen,” Galloway asserted.

He also told them that women are drawn to older men because they are more “economically and emotionally viable.”

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