Continuing in series from the previous posts...

All right AJ, this all sounds great, but can we get back to the "correct" way to do the first touch? Continue with the guidelines!

OK, here's a critical one I've mentioned only briefly before. Never look at your hand! Keep strong eye contact with her. Looking at your hand is creepy, wishy-washy, shows lack of confidence, indicates you're asking permission to touch her, and shows it's not a nonchalant, casual, normal thing for you. It's terribly bad for so many reasons, just don't even think about doing it! Meanwhile, your eye contact works to attract her and make her feel your presence even more. She should feel a rush when you do this.

How can you touch her arm when you aren't looking at it?

This can be kinda tough since you're totally focused on her eyes, but what I used to do is, just as I was getting next to her I would note the position of her arm. After a while this will be second nature and you can do it without thinking.

Any special way you touch her on the arm?

Nearly flat palm, firmly and authoritatively, yet warmly, for about one (1) full second. I always touch on the lower to mid part of the upper arm. Of course have a big smile of confidence as your first impression.

OK, I think the first touch is pretty much covered. How do you escalate it as the pickup progresses.

First of all, make no mistake - kino progression IS the heart of the pickup. Everything else basically serves kino escalation, not the other way around. You're CREATING those high points through what you say and do in the pickup, SO THAT you have windows to kino her more and more intimately...all the way to sex.

So, for instance, how do I touch her the next few times after the first one?

The next few touches will be to cement the anchor you started building with the first touch. Generally follow the advice given in so far and stick to the arm, then the shoulder and then lower back.

How long should these first few touches last?

About 1 second at first, according to how long her peak of good feeling lasts. Don't let it slop past that feeling peak. The first few times it really benefits you to time it carefully so the anchor is well established. Then that anchor will serve you for the rest of the sarge. Later on they can last 1.5 seconds or so, but these numbers aren't going to help you as much as a common sense feel for it. Always watch her reactions carefully. The first signs of discomfort if your touch was too invasive can be very subtle, especially in Japan. Moving away from you is a not-so-subtle one, in which case you've got to tone it way back for a while and be extra careful reestablishing the anchors from square one. Ideally, just find a new girl.

Please give an example of a standard kino escalation order

My personal one, thoroughly field tested to get the majority of my 140+ lays, starts as

Upper arm, shoulder, lower back, upper leg.

Do you keep all these to 1-1.5 second each?

Yes, and maybe up to 2 seconds later on, right up until we're accelerating toward the kiss. If I'm moving toward the kiss (and in Japan, the kiss is where last-minute resistance and the end-game begin), I might be touching her quite a lot, knowing all the sloppy touch timing will mess things up if I don't get to the kiss soon. It's a trade-off where I risk prompting her anti-slut alarms but in exchange I get increased horniness from her. This trade-off is advanced and risky if you push it too far! Caveman-style (never means forcing!) is a type of touch where you can get away with sloppiness like crazy by creating the right frame, but that's a topic for another time.

Do you ever keep your hand on her leg or back?
When I'm about to do the kiss I might, but not before. See above where I talked about slop factor. When you keep your hand on her somewhere, it implies all kinds of things, and so you better be ready to make good on it fast (read: within seconds)!

What about holding hands? Doesn't that build comfort?

I never touch their hands except to compare hand sizes if I'm really running behind schedule in the touch escalation game and need something to fall back on. Same with thumb wrestling - it's very much Plan B for situations where, for example, she's not having enough high points for me to give contact on.

I find holding hands activates anti-slut alarms and makes girls uncomfortable because it's giving off romantic/provider vibes that seem to her to be incongruent with your fast escalation. Don't worry, if you want a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship your best chance of getting it is always to lay her as fast as permissible (the great thing is that you now have many of the tools that allow you to control what she finds permissible).

Basically, the rule of "no slop" means no continuous touching! At least not until late in the pickup.

What about after the upper leg?

Then you're nearly in last-minute resitance (LMR) and should generally be kissing her. I'll leave that for an LMR discussion.

What about touching other areas? Face? Hair?

Just before going in for the kiss would be fine, but not early on. The touching escalation is designed to give you

THE GREATEST INCREASE IN HER HORNINESS FOR THE LEAST INTRUSION

Touching the face is pretty intrusive to many girls, and it doesn't usually do that much for horniness. Hair is not intrusive, but it also doesn't make them that horny usually and it also tends to gives relationship or provider vibes too early (before sex is too early - it's highly inefficient, chance reducing behavior).

What about kisses on the cheek, head, hands, and so on?
I never kiss girls until the full-on makeout, at which you've entered LMR. Kissing anywhere else really clues them into your game plan and does little for horniness UNLESS it's the earlobe and it's not really identifiable as a "kiss." Once you've kissed them on the cheek or something, what can she tell herself to combat her anti-slut alarms?? For me, it makes getting the makeout 10x harder. She shouldn't ever have a conclusive hint at what you're planning until you do it.

To be concluded soon. Questions and comments welcome at amanojacktokyo@yahoo.com