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A MELBOURNE nightclub is running a three-hour flirting course for women, then sending them out on a rampage.
Singles lifestyle expert Sue Ostler will give flirting advice to 100 women before they are let loose at Crown casino club Heat to test their pick-up skills.
The course, which will be launched on Saturday, includes a three-hour flirt seminar and workshop, a love therapy session, makeover and hair consultations.
After three hours of wising up on man-catching tips, the women will head out to the clubs with a checklist to obtain text or phone numbers, or make contact with a new friend.
"By the time they get to the club, they are sexual animals," Ms Ostler said. "It's a confidence-booster, first and foremost.
"But flirting is playful and innocent, harmless and mischievous."
Bill Muehlenberg, of the Australian Family Association, criticised the course, describing it as dangerous.
"It's one thing to learn how to pick up members of the opposite sex, but to do so in an alcohol-soaked environment adds fuel to the fire of an already bad mix," Mr Muehlenberg said.
"Whatever skills these women have been given may backfire or take them into areas they don't want to be in."
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