Daryush Valizadeh

Daryush Valizadeh was born in Washington DC on June 14, 1979. His parents immigrated to the United States before he was born. His faTher is Iranian and his mother is Armenian. English was the primary language in the household.

Childhood

Daryush grew up in Montgomery County, Maryland, one of the wealthiest counties in America during the 1990’s. After his parents divorced, he and his sister lived with Their mother. In high school, one of his friends started calling him “Roosh.” the name stuck, and he continues to be called that to this day.

Education

Daryush attended the University Of Maryland and studied microbiology. While in school, he became fascinated with the internet and created simple web pages after studying HTML. One of the pages he created was a simple blog that he updated once a day. It received less than 100 visitors per day.

Towards the end of college, Daryush was frustrated with his sex life. He didn’t have confidence in himself and didn’t know how to flirt with women. He decided that he wanted to fix this problem, so he began studying “game” on the internet to help him accomplish his goal.

Adult life

After he graduated from university in 2001, he started learning how to talk to women in bars and clubs by walking up to Them and starting a conversation. He learned how to dance and show the best parts of his personality. He also learned how to accept rejection. Daryush shared his stories on a new web site called “Rooshlog” (now closed).

By 2004, Daryush was employed as a microbiologist in a Maryland pharmaceutical company. He soon opened a new web site called DC Bachelor, which shared more of his dating tips and stories. He had a small following that mostly lived in the Washington DC area. His site was receiving approximately 300 hits a day.

Books

The year 2007 was a big year for Daryush. He released his first book called Bang and quit his job as a microbiologist to travel through South America. Two years later, he published four additional books. One was a memoir of his experience called A Dead Bat In Paraguay and three were dating guides for Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina that taught men how to have sex with girls from those countries. Around this time, he closed DC Bachelor and opened RooshV.com, which is still active today. He never worked as a microbiologist again.

Web Success

His web page became popular and news stories started to write profiles on him as a “pick up artist.” Around this time, the feminist movement in the United States started to successfully spread Their ideas of the “gender wage gap” and “rape culture.” Up to that time, pick-up artists like Daryush were not heavily criticized by feminists, but now those feminists were changing the definition of consensual sex so that practically all instances of sex could somehow be considered rape.

Daryush would soon face heavy attack. In 2011, Daryush went to Iceland. the two web sites he had that year were Roosh V and Roosh V Forum. For the next several years, he lived in many European countries and wrote dating guides on seven of Them.

Rape Culture

The liberal media in Iceland and Denmark reacted harshly against his books and began calling Them “rape guides,” even though his sex advice was legal and no different than the dozens of other dating books you can find in any bookstore. He started to be deeply hated by feminists, homosexuals, and transsexuals, who would obsessively read all his books and writings to find evidence of “rape culture.” In his books, he gave explicit details on his sex experiences that made him seem too aggressive and dominant too his detractors. He did this because he wanted to be seen like famous sex writers like Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski, who inspired him. He did become famous, but not in the way he intended. His enemies began quoting deceptive excerpts of sex stories to try to convince others that he was some kind of rapist. He vehemently denied the allegations and stated that his enemies want to accuse all men of rape. He not charged or detained for any crime.

Return of Kings

In 2012, Daryush opened the web site Return Of Kings, where he invited other masculine writers to share Their ideas. This is the year that Daryush started to move from being a pick-up artist to leading a movement of masculinity that he later called “neomasculinity.” He created The Poznan Institute to develop neomasculinity (he came up with the idea while living in the Polish city of Poznan).

For subsequent years, he spent most of his time building Return Of Kings and traveling to other European countries such as Romania, Croatia, and Russia. He was written about in the news regularly. 

In 2015, he wrote an article called “How To Stop Rape,” which was a satirical thought experiment. In the article, he claims that rape would be reduced if it were made legal, a suggestion obviously absurd and not meant to be taken seriously. NoneTheless, the feminist subculture began calling him a “rape advocate” and “rape proponent.”

In 2016, Daryush tried to organize international meetups on Return Of Kings. Liberal media around the world falsely reported that the meetups were for teaching rape. the event listing of the meetup stated that it was for men to meet over beers and talk about life, women, and politics. Over, 1,600 such articles were written about Daryush in February 2016.

Recent Projects

Daryush now has several web sites that reach over 1 million people every month. they receive over 200,000 page views per day. He makes his living through his books and advertising on his web sites. He is currently living in variously in Poland, Ukraine, and Russia, though he does visit his family in the United States frequently.

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