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The Pleasure Bureau: How Sex, Seduction and Emotional Espionage Shape Power and Influence
The Pleasure Bureau exposes a chilling seduction isn’t just personal — it’s institutional. From the corridors of power to the digital feeds of social media, emotional manipulation is the world’s most effective weapon.
Based on declassified cases, whistle-blower memoirs, corporate investigations and innumerable reports from global intelligence and media industries, this book reveals how an entire underground economy thrives on trust, vulnerability, and intimacy — trading them for influence, data, and control.
Inside you will
How operatives are trained in charm, empathy, and behavioral science — from “listening first” to “emotional scripting.Why powerful men — tech founders, politicians, priests, pilots — are among the easiest targets, and how agents exploit loneliness, ambition, and moral weight to gain access.How secrets and shame are harvested into leverage (kompromat), and why most victims never realize they were targeted.How corporations, governments, and private clients now outsource seduction — via influencers, social-media “assets,” PR firms, and ghost networks — making emotional espionage accessible to anyone with a budget.The human operatives burned out, lives destabilized, trust destroyed. And why in an age of performance, silence becomes the last form of resistance.Written in the calm, insider-analyst voice of Sergey Berezkin (author of Reality Hacked), The Pleasure Bureau reads like a field manual, a spy memo, and a moral warning rolled into one. It doesn’t dramatize. It documents.
Whether you’re studying modern espionage, digital influence, security, or simply want to understand how manipulation shapes our world — this book pulls back the curtain and shows the machinery. Inevitable, efficient — and deeply human.
Based on declassified cases, whistle-blower memoirs, corporate investigations and innumerable reports from global intelligence and media industries, this book reveals how an entire underground economy thrives on trust, vulnerability, and intimacy — trading them for influence, data, and control.
Inside you will
How operatives are trained in charm, empathy, and behavioral science — from “listening first” to “emotional scripting.Why powerful men — tech founders, politicians, priests, pilots — are among the easiest targets, and how agents exploit loneliness, ambition, and moral weight to gain access.How secrets and shame are harvested into leverage (kompromat), and why most victims never realize they were targeted.How corporations, governments, and private clients now outsource seduction — via influencers, social-media “assets,” PR firms, and ghost networks — making emotional espionage accessible to anyone with a budget.The human operatives burned out, lives destabilized, trust destroyed. And why in an age of performance, silence becomes the last form of resistance.Written in the calm, insider-analyst voice of Sergey Berezkin (author of Reality Hacked), The Pleasure Bureau reads like a field manual, a spy memo, and a moral warning rolled into one. It doesn’t dramatize. It documents.
Whether you’re studying modern espionage, digital influence, security, or simply want to understand how manipulation shapes our world — this book pulls back the curtain and shows the machinery. Inevitable, efficient — and deeply human.
124 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 1, 2025
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December 19, 2025
The Pleasure Bureau was mind opening! As a psychology student I saw the premise of this and I was like YES. I wanna read this.
But when I got into it, what unfolded was much more sinister than I anticipated. To think that people are so predictable that we are able to fine-tune intimacy down to an art, it blew my mind.
I did find it a little repetitive in some chapters, but the content was great.
But when I got into it, what unfolded was much more sinister than I anticipated. To think that people are so predictable that we are able to fine-tune intimacy down to an art, it blew my mind.
I did find it a little repetitive in some chapters, but the content was great.
January 9, 2026
A well-written, eye opening look into how sex, seduction and in many instances just friendly interactions can influence political, military, business and even personal experiences.
Technology has a place in this game since the internet opens many doors for those trained in the art of seduction.
Makes me think twice about who I interact with in my life!
Technology has a place in this game since the internet opens many doors for those trained in the art of seduction.
Makes me think twice about who I interact with in my life!
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