If you haven't heard about pickup artists (or PUAs) yet, you're out of the loop. The pickup artist community is an international community of men dedicated to improving their skills at picking up women. First brought into the mainstream by Neil Strauss' expose, The Game, and VH1's reality TV show, The Pickup Artist, the pickup and seduction community is quickly growing to become a worldwide phenomenon.

There are many things that can be said about the pick up artist community, but one of the things that can be confusing for people just being introduced to the community is the jargon. Like many subcultures, the seduction community has developed a rich set of terms and acronyms unique to their group.

Here's a quick introduction to 7 of the most commonly used pick up artist terms:

1. AFC - Average Frustrated Chump

Average frustrated chump is the term that PUAs use to refer to the average guy, who doesn't have the success with women they desire. Maybe they've had a couple of girlfriends in their lives, but they don't really have an understanding of how pickup and seduction works, and they aren't really dating the quality of women that they want. AFCs don't have control of their dating lives. Many PUAs started off as AFCs, before they improved their skills with women.

2. LMR - Last Minute Resistance

LMR is an acronym that PUAs use to describe an all too common phenomenon-- the resistance that women give a guy to having sex at the last minute. LMR is a frustrating experience that many guys are familiar, when you bring a girl over to your place, and maybe are even making out on bed, but when you go to take her clothes off, she resists. PUAs have developed many techniques to help to overcome LMR.

3. ASD - Anti Slut Defense

ASD is used to refer to the behavior of that women will often do whatever they can to not to appear too easy or a slut, even when it goes against their desires. Women often run into a bind, because they are intensely sexual creatures, and yet can't express their sexuality openly, for fear of being negatively labeled. PUAs recognize that women will put up ASD, even when they want to have sex, and know how to deal with it.

4. DHV - Demonstration of High Value

Women are generally only interested in guys that are of higher social value than themselves. Thus, a large part of the seduction process is communicating, both verbally and non-verbally, that you are of higher value than the girl you're talking to. This has to be done in a way that doesn't come across as bragging or as too arrogant. This can be achieved by using carefully crafted DHV routines that communicate all the right things to a woman.

5. LJBF - Let's Just Be Friends

This is a common situation that AFCs encounter, where they try to get sexual with a girl, only to be place in the friends zone via the infamous "let's just be friends" speech. PUAs know how to avoid being LJBF'ed and also know how to turn a friendly relationship into a sexual one.

6. AA - Approach Anxiety

Approach anxiety is the fear that most guys feel when they are approaching an attractive women that they don't know. A large part of being a pickup artist is approaching strangers in the hopes of picking them up, so PUAs have developed many techniques for dealing with and overcoming approach anxiety.

7. IOI - Indicator of Interest

IOIs are signals (often non-verbal and subconscious) that women use to communicate that they are interested in a guy. IOIs can range from eye contact and smiling, to touching and flipping their hair. An experienced PUA knows how to recognize IOIs, and how to take advantage of them.

These are just a handful of the terms that pickup artists use, but hopefully it will give you a better understanding of the secret language used by the seduction community.