A MEMBER of a US dating company and colleague of controversial “pick-up artist” Julien Blanc has had his Australian visa cancelled, following a public backlash over his “vile and disgusting” dating seminars.

Jeff Allen is a member of Real Social Dynamics, a group of “pick-up artists” who travel the world teaching men how to “land” women.

More than a dozen RSD seminars were scheduled to run in Australia this year, including one in Melbourne on Thursday evening hosted by Mr Allen. By Monday afternoon, more than 60,000 people had signed an online petition calling for him to be deported.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirmed Mr Allen is now out of the country. The ABC reports Mr Allen had already left Australia before his visa was revoked.

Speaking to Sky News, Mr Dutton said “a person associated with this particular movement has had his visa cancelled.”

“When you have a look at some of the information that these guys are promoting, it’s pretty repugnant to say the least,” he said.

“Full praise to the Department (of Immigration) and the officers who have identified these people, who are completely without legitimate cause to be here, don’t meet our character tests and in this instance the visa has been cancelled.”

This morning RSD sent an email to its newsletter subscribers saying all upcoming Australian and New Zealand tour dates were cancelled.

On behalf of the RSD Team we apologize for canceling all Jeff Free Tour events in Australia. Once again we're sorry for the inconvenience. — Real Social Dynamics (@rsdnation) January 16, 2016

On Tuesday afternoon hotel chain Vibe Hotels announced it had cancelled several RSD events booked at its venues.

“TFE Hotels has learnt RSD booked events at Vibe Hotels under another name & has cancelled any further events at all hotels,” Vibe Hotels tweeted.

@CoralieAlison TFE Hotels in no way supports RSD & has cancelled events at Vibe Hotels. We have a proud culture of supporting women — Vibe Hotels (@vibehotels) January 18, 2016

He is the second member of RSD to have his Australian visa revoked.

In 2014, Mr Allen’s colleague Julien Blanc was kicked out of Australia by then immigration minister Scott Morrison for encouraging men to use “male privilege, isolation and emotional abuse” to land women.

His techniques included choking women and putting their heads near his crotch.

The change.org petition which called for Mr Allen to be deported quotes him as saying women dream about being “tied up and fully succumbing to your aggressive masculinity.”

He once wrote on an RSD forum: “See, as much as women wanna be raped, they also want to be made feel beautiful.”

Their seminars have caused widespread anger.

“We have enough violence against women right now. If our government is seriously committed to addressing this then they can start by keeping people who condone the use of force against women out of Australia,” Abby Fredericks commented on the change.org petition.

“I’m signing because this type of garbage has to stop,” wrote Frank Encute.