James Bloodworth, author of Lost Boys: A Personal Journey Through the Manosphere, on how boys and men go from looking for a girlfriend to extreme misogynyLost Boys: James Bloodworth during the Men of Action mentorship in Las Vegas, which he joined as part of his research for his book about the manosphere Fri May 15 2026 - 06:15 • 9 MIN READBack in 2005, when he was 22, James Bloodworth typed something like “How to get a girlfriend” into Google and found a forum called, he thinks, “Alt Seduction Fast”. Before long he was attending nightclubs with a seduction expert called “Tux”, who taught young men how to approach women. He cringes to remember it.

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