Three Australian venues and two American hotels have rejected appearances by controversial pick-up artist Julien Blanc as a social media campaign to end his world tour gathers pace. Blanc, a 'dating coach' whose techniques include choking women and then hushing them, planned to hold seminars in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane over the first fortnight of November. But he is quickly finding himself without a place to host his events after outraged activists took to the phones and social media to #TakeDownJulienBlanc. Scroll down for video '#ChokeOpen': One of Julien Blanc's techniques to seduce women involves grasping them in a chokehold
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Julien Blanc is a self-described American 'pick-up artist'
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One of his techniques is to choke women and silence them
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He is currently on a world tour and arrived in Australia recently
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Five venues - three in Australia, two in the U.S. - have cancelled on him
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In the past, Blanc has charged men $3,000 for a spot at his seminars
'@placeholder has appalling levels of sexual assault and other violence against women, the last thing we need is someone coming to run workshops on how to do it better.'