Penguin Books Australia

You're a great bloke, right? So why can't you get a date?  You're smart and okay-looking, but you're too shy to talk to the women you like and if you do, they never seem that interested.

Sam de brito, author of the popular Sydney Morning Herald and The Age blog 'All Men Are Liars', is here to show you how to lift your game.  Drawing on a lifetime of obsevation and the thousands of responses...

'You won't find a singsong entry in this book that says, 'Magic happens' or 'Climb a tree with a child.' There are no pictures of cuddly animals . . . It's the stuff I wish somebody, anybody , had told me twenty years ago.'

No tattoos before you're thirty is a collection of witty, modern truths aimed more towards the realities of everyday life than the value of eating your greens. It's fun, irreverent...

Here is all the advice you don't want to hear from your parents, and if you're a parent, you don't want to have to tell your kids.  Stuff such as:

- Why you should think twice about a threesome
- Who gets rid of the condom after sex
- How to avoid an attack (and how to fight back)
- Why you should never eat nuts in a public bar
- How to play safe with party drugs