He then published another polemical essay, "Vers la féminisation? – Démontage d'un complot antidémocratique" ("Towards feminisation? – Analysis of an antidemocratic plot"), and spent the following couple of years writing and directing his first full-length movie, "Confession d'un dragueur" ("Confessions of a womaniser"), which was a commercial and critical failure. Disgusted by what he called "a lynching", Soral gave up cinema altogether and returned to writing. He published "Jusqu'où va-t-on descendre? – Abécédaire de la bêtise ambiante" ("How far down are we going? – ABC's of ambient stupidity"), followed by "Socrate à Saint-Tropez" (2003) and "Misères du désir" (2004).