--- title: 'Pickup Artist' Julien Blanc Accused of Promoting Assault Barred U.K. description: An American "pickup artist" accused of promoting sexual assault appears set to be banned from entering the United Kingdom canonical: https://time.com/3595216/pickup-artist-julien-blanc-barred-united-kingdom/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-19T18:46:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:18.872Z og:title: 'Pickup Artist' Accused of Promoting Sexual Assault to Be Barred From U.K. og:description: A petition demanding Britain cancel Julien Blanc's visa garnered more than 150,000 signatures og:url: https://time.com/3595216/pickup-artist-julien-blanc-barred-united-kingdom/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Pickup Artist' Accused of Promoting Sexual Assault to Be Barred From U.K. twitter:description: A petition demanding Britain cancel Julien Blanc's visa garnered more than 150,000 signatures twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 'Pickup Artist' Accused of Promoting Sexual Assault to Be Barred From U.K. by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Nov 19, 2014 6:46 PM CUT by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Nov 19, 2014 6:46 PM CUT An American “pickup artist” accused of promoting sexual assault appears set to be [banned](http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/19/julien-blanc-barred-entering-uk-pick-up-artist "undefined") from entering the United Kingdom, according to a report Wednesday that cited the Home Office. Julien Blanc was apparently informed that his application for a British visa has been rejected, the Guardian reports. The decision by Home Secretary Theresa May comes after a petition demanding that Britain cancel his visa garnered more than 150,000 signatures. Blanc, 25, gives paid seminars and bootcamps that promise to teach men how to “Make Girls BEG To Sleep With You After SHORT-CIRCUITING Their Emotional And Logical Mind” and develop “panty-dropping masculinity with this rock-solid structure to self-generate the powerful emotions girls crave.” But critics have called the courses predation in disguise as dating advice. \[[_The Guardian_](http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/19/julien-blanc-barred-entering-uk-pick-up-artist "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3595216/pickup-artist-julien-blanc-barred-united-kingdom/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3595216/pickup-artist-julien-blanc-barred-united-kingdom/"},"headline":"'Pickup Artist' Accused of Promoting Sexual Assault to Be Barred From U.K.","datePublished":"2014-11-19T18:46:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:18.872Z","description":"A petition demanding Britain cancel Julien Blanc's visa garnered more than 150,000 signatures","url":"https://time.com/3595216/pickup-artist-julien-blanc-barred-united-kingdom/","keywords":["Living","Scandal"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3595216/pickup-artist-julien-blanc-barred-united-kingdom/","name":"'Pickup Artist' Accused of Promoting Sexual Assault to Be Barred From U.K."}}]}] ```