Based Product Of The Month - December
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Alright so one thing I’ll do in this new phase of Simple Men is have this monthly section where I recommend based/holistic/natural products/services for men. Most, if not all of the products I’ll recommend are ones that I have personally used and love, but there’ll be some I haven’t, which will be recommended ONLY if I have enough reviews and recommendations from close people for them to be worth it.
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December’s Product of The Month: The Courtship Network
Category: Relationships
Pricing: $11.99/mo
If you’re anything like me (conservative, traditional, religious, etc.) the words “dating app” are probably a huge red flag. And with good reason.
I know in my case, it immediately makes me think of the most degrading digital dopamine carrousel and an endless stream of low-quality sexual encounters. I think that’a mostly true. I say this even knowing that there are great men and women in those apps, having had people close to me find their long-term partners through them. But I’m damn sure that’s not the majority of cases, because I also have a lot of people close to me that use these in the most ridiculously masturbatory fashion, trying to simply find the easiest hookup they can to have a quick dopamine release and ego-boost after a few hours of forced conversation. And I imagine that’s how the majority of these “dates” go, and how most people use those apps.
Anyway, all of this to say, I was skeptical when I first came across The Courtship Network. I though it would be just another “swipe-right-and-left” dating app that would hide behind the competitive advantage of being “trad” to become just another Tinder. I was very wrong in my initial assessment.
I got to know the founder of this project, Ryan, and pick his brain during our meeting, and I absolutely loved the concept once he really explained it.
The Courtship Network is not like any other dating apps or platforms, for a few key reasons:
There’s a strict vetting process to ensure members have the correct, traditional values. This immediately filters those looking to take advantage of the insane high-quality of members there is in the network for their own dishonorable reasons.
It’s not open to the public. The only way to access the platform it’s true trusted, vetted affiliates (like yours truly). This immediately ensures only the right kind of people are recommending the app, to avoid it being corrupted by those looking for the wrong things in it.
It’s not a “swiping” app, in which you can spend hours upon hours watching half-nude girls to see which one you fancy (you shouldn’t do that btw). It’s more akin to a social media platform, where members can write posts, comment, interact with each other, and get to know each other well.
It’s intentional. That means every single member has one goal in mind and that is finding a high-quality, long term partner for marriage. If that’s not what you are looking for then please do not join.
There’s more women than men in it. Whereas all other platforms are male-dominated, this one isn’t. It’s also not surprising: there aren’t many traditionally minded men, because even those who are “red-pilled” are often misled into the casual sex game and don’t even think about marriage until way later. So what you have in The Courtship Network is a majority of traditional women and simply not enough men.
It actually works for long-term relationships. I know so many people who have gotten married after meeting through the network it’s crazy.
The community behind it is great too, both Ryan, his team, and the affiliates. The people that join are honest, good people that are looking for serious, committed relationships, which is exactly what is needed right now.
Projects like this are extremely necessary nowadays. The people that think like we do have been incredibly isolated over the last couple of decades. We’ve been forced to hide our true values and ideals because they go against the cultural narrative, and this makes it a huge difficulty to find likeminded men, let alone likeminded women that make potential long-term partners.
The Courtship Network does a great job in bringing together all these isolated souls that have had trouble finding compatible partners. I know firsthand how tough it is to find virtuous women nowadays, and you probably do too.
A common mistake that conservative and traditional men usually make is that we simply refuse to use technology, even for good. We daydream of eras long gone where a man would meet a girl at the local church, and they’d go on to have a family together. We refuse to use technology to our advantage because we are obsessed with things being exactly how they used to be. I have made this mistake too. But we need to start understanding that things will never be as they were, and we have to learn to adapt and use the technologies at hand for our benefit, or we’ll lose the fight completely (I’ll talk more about this in a later post).
All of this to say, if you’re a man who is tired of casual dating, has the right values, and is ready to commit or at least try to commit to something serious with a virtuous and valuable woman, you should give The Courtship Network a shot. The pricing is super affordable and there’s no long-term commitment, which means you can just cancel at any time you wish if it’s not meeting your expectations.
Let me know if you end up joining, I’ll be very interested to know how you like it.
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God bless and talk soon,
Simple Man