U.S. "pick-up artist" may be banned from U.K.

LONDON -- Self-proclaimed American "pick-up artist" Julien Blanc has travelled around the world, charging men more than $3,000 dollars to learn his methods for attracting the opposite sex.

Blanc promises men who want help dating that he can "make girls beg to sleep with you after short-circuiting their emotional and logical mind."

But his attitude toward women may have crossed a line with a remark he made, seemingly caught on video by one of his students, in which he suggests simply grabbing a woman by the neck and forcing her to do something she may not want to.

CBS News' partner network Sky News says Britain may soon join a handful of other nations which have barred Blanc. According to Sky's sources, British Home Secretary Teresa May is "likely" to ban Blanc from receiving a U.K. entry visa.

Asked to confirm that Blanc would be denied a visa, the Home Office told CBS News it was a "longstanding practice that we do not comment on individual exclusion cases unless they are made public by the excluded individual."

The statement noted that Secretary May "has excluded more foreign nationals on the grounds of unacceptable behaviour than any before her." It said May has the power to ban any individual if "she considers that his or her presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good or if their exclusion is justified on public policy grounds."

As of Wednesday, almost 160,000 people had signed a public petition to call on May to ban Blanc from entering Britain. Australia and Brazil have both already made it clear Blanc is not welcome.

While many of the aggressive tactics and theories taught by Blanc, a 25 year old California man, and the "Real Social Dynamics" group he "coaches" for could be considered of questionable taste, it was one video shot in Tokyo that brought the uproar against him to fever pitch.

"Just grab her," he explained to his audience, "and I pull her in. And she kinda like laughs and giggles, and all you have to say to kinda like take the pressure off is just yell 'Pikachu' or 'Pokemon' or 'Tamagotchi' or something."

"In Tokyo, if you're a white male, you can do what you want," he told a group of men.

The YouTube video of that session in Tokyo has been removed.

Blanc was reportedly planning a tour of Britain for February -- not his first, but the first since the more shocking aspects of his "game" became widely known.

With hundreds of petitioners urging May to "ensure he doesn't get to come back," Blanc may be forced to look elsewhere new students this winter.