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YouTube deletes hundreds of sleazy pick-up artist videos after BBC investigation

YouTube accounts offering boots camps for "pick-up artists" have been removed after it emerged they could face prosecution.

The video streaming site has deleted hundreds of videos from accounts called 'Addy A Game' and 'Street Attraction' after they breached rules.

Clips posted online by the two accounts give men lessons on how to pick-up women on the street.

It comes after creepy Scots pick-up artist , who calls himself , was found guilty at for acting in a threatening and abusive manner that could cause a reasonable person fear or alarm.

The 38-year-old approached five girls between May 2016 and November 2018 in  Glasgow  City Centre and Uddingston.

He posted videos on YouTube of him approaching females to teach others about how to pick women up.

Adnan Ahmed had a pal secretly film his sleazy attempts to pick up unsuspecting women (Internet Unknown)

Ahmed is now facing jail.

While the account belonging to Street Attraction has also been removed.

A YouTube spokesperson said: " strictly prohibits explicit sexual, graphic or harassing content.

"Nothing is more important than protecting the safety of our community, and we will continue to review and refine our policies in this area."

In a programme which will be aired tonight on BBC One Scotland journalist goes undercover to probe what artists call "Game".

In 'The Seduction Game', Bonnar joins a ‘boot camp’ for would-be pick-up artists in London run by a company called Street Attraction, run by Eddie Hitchens whose real name is Edib Bajraktarevic. There are six students each paying £600 to learn more about seduction techniques.

Street Attraction used to post 'infield videos' that involve secret recordings of Hitchens and other coaches approaching young woman.

During the training weekend, another coach, Richard Hood, whose real name is Ryszard Kaptur, gives the undercover reporter advice on overcoming what pick-up artists describe as Last Minute Resistance (LMR) to sex.

Sandy Brindley, chief executive of , wants the videos to be made illegal.

She said: "I think there’s real questions about legality, about criminal behaviour, about harassment, about using images, particularly intimate images or audio without consent.

"If they haven’t given consent, which I would have grave concerns about whether or not there is a full consent, informed consent in place, to come across one of those videos and to hear some of that audio, and to have not given consent - I think is a massive infringement on somebody’s ."

"I think some of these techniques come very, very close to the definition of rape. And I think pick-up artists are really doing men no favours at all recommending these techniques.

"And my advice would be - this is not the approach to take because you could end up facing very, very serious consequences."

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