The US 'pick-up' organisation Real Social Dynamics has returned to Australia, just over a year since one of their 'pick-up' artists, Julien Blanc, had his visa revoked.
The group holds seminars teaching men how to pick up women using techniques that an online petition says "belittle her, physically restrain her, mentally deride her, and abuse her until she submits".
On a website advertising their worldwide tour, which includes stops this month, February and March in Sydney, Melbourne Brisbane and Perth, Owen Cook, who calls himself Tyler Durdan (after Brad Pitt's Fight Club character) promises to "ill your head with so many bleeding edge “RSD in house secrets” on success with girls, social dynamics, and self actualisation that you left with your head spinning in disbelief".
Tyler said he would also show video clips of girls begging him to "molest" them.
"Me walking up to a girl that almost every guy whose seen the video has gawked at as a “Perfect 10” and have her ask me to “molest” her behind the building, and then the insanity as she directs me to do so," he says on the website.
"The past decade of my life has been devoted to nothing but the study of how regular guys (like YOU) can become EXCEPTIONAL at getting girls," the website post continues.
"How to use a new type of “humor” to shock the crap out of the hottest girls specifically, so that you appear on the level of rich movie producers and strip club owners."
An online petition has been rapidly gaining signatures, which have more than doubled since SBS News first saw the page.
It is directed to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and calls for them to "consider acting as Scott Morrison did in the role of Immigration Minister when Owen Cook's colleague Julian Blanc tried to tour the country teaching men domestic violence tactics in workshop events, and revoke Owen's visa".
RSD Mr Blanc has previously attracted wide-spread criticism for encouraging men to choke women and for bragging about grabbing Asian girls and forcing their heads to his crotch.
"These men have built a business advising young men that their best option for a romantic or sexual encounter with a woman is to belittle her, physically restrain her, mentally deride her, and abuse her until she submits," the petition says.
"These tactics are promoted on their social media and in videos from their seminars, and now they are touring the country preaching to young Aussie men this same dangerous mantra.
"If this Liberal-National Government and its new cabinet are serious about promoting equality for women, denouncing violence against women, preventing the growth of a culture of domestic and public violence of all varieties, a good indication of this would be not to issue business visas to people whose business model is founded on workshops which teach and promote abuse."
SBS News has asked for comment from both the Immigration Department and Mr Cook.
Twitter users have expressed their disappointment that Mr Cook was allowed into the country after Mr Blanc was deported in November, 2014.
