Yeah, well, selfishness ain't free either. The devil pays an even higher cost for ruling over hell than God pays for surrendering to heaven.
Integrity will cost you quantity of sex but gain you depth and quality of sex. If you go the integrity route, get good at jerking off.

Well, your only other options are:
Day game Social circle Build up a public career where you meet lots of new people If you often see 4-5 girls worth approaching then why are you asking? There it is! Now fucking approach.
I prefer gaming outside the clubs. But you need good locations for that. I am way better at hitting on a girl in the lobby of a casino or shopping mall vs inside a club.

Yes, the key to learning to socialize is standing up for yourself and your values. If you try to please everyone or be a doormat then socialize will be very painful.

You have to dig deep and really own your sexuality. Be sexual. Don't try to hide it. You're a man, man has cravings. Let's not pretend otherwise.
People and women especially will respect you more when you are honest about your sexuality. Game will teach you that gotta be as authentic as possible and fully in love with yourself.
If you try to hide your sexual desires and intentions you will come off creepy and women will punish you for it ruthlessly.
If you desire a woman, make your intention obvious. If she rejects you, fine, no problem. But make it clear. Some will reject you, others will love you. The worst thing is to pretend like you don't desire her. This is the definition of beta. Alphas know when they wanna fuck and aren't embarrassed or guilty about it.
Of course this does not mean that you explicitly talk about sex with women you're hitting on. You still gotta be subtle about it most of the time.

The good news is that you're super young and you got time to turn all that around.
Be careful not to overwhelm yourself with this task of developing your life. You need to pick one or two things to focus in for now and take baby steps on them. You will build up a lot momentum over the years as you take action towards your ideal life. Think of this as a 5-10 year project and pace it out.

It's how you survive as yourself. You (the ego) is a bundle of thoughts.

Even in Vegas finding 10 girls worth approaching is not always easy.

Update: Second day game cold approach.
Saw a cute girl behind a counter in a shop at the mall and hesitated. Went to get my groceries instead, then on the way decided that I just had to go and approach. Walked into the store. It wasn't too busy. Maybe 3 customers. 
Walked up to counter:
Her: "Hey, good afternoon, how are you?" (typical sales talk)
Me: "Hey, good thanks. Hey this is a bit out of the blue.... but I was walking out there [main mall foot traffic corridor] and saw you and thought you were really cute and wanted to say Hi"
"omg! thank you (smiling and good eye contact).... what's your name?
Me" my name's xxxxx... yours?
her: xxxxx
Me: I don't want to distract you from your important work (half joking) but would you be keen to grab a coffee sometime?
Her: yeah! that would be great, I'd love to. I can't now cause Im at work but I would like to do that"
Me: Cool, well do you wanna grab my number (I was holding a big box with groceries so taking my phone out would be a pain).
Her: sure....[contact exhange]
Me; Cool, I'll see you around....bye
 
Overall, I'm happy she was receptive because I do know that lots of people can get some harsh rejections like 20 times in a row, which massively discourages them from pursuing cold approach. But this interaction made me more confident to just approach, because good outcomes can happen.
In terms of after-approach: my main goal was just to approach and push through approach anxiety. If I was more advanced I would make sure that our contact exchange was solid in terms of her actually texting me to confirm her number or vice versa if she had given it to me. 
I don't actually expect her to text me because of the theory of behaviour state untethering. (see Mike Mehlman article about it). Essentially, even those girls who are receptive of the surface will ghost the majority of the time. Also, I dotn think she got my number right when I said it so even if she does text me I wont get the text. 
Basically, I succeeded because I approached. During the day, sober, direct. I don't actually care whether we go on a date because now I have a palpable sense that approaches can result in receptive/positive conversations (i.e not all approaches by me are creepy). This is reinforced by approaches I made years and years ago at the start of uni, but its good to get this reinforcement in the present day. 
The result is that I am now more confident to approach because I can envision a positive outcome. 
Additionally, The honest, direct approach is one of the easiest to make because you dont have to make up a story or some indirect bullshit. WHat I said to her was the truth. I was walking past, I saw her at the counter, thought she was cute, and wanted to talk to her. I don't have to make up some bullshit about what kind fo clothes they sell or whatever the fuck. 
This interaction has solidified the notion of the direct, masculine, man-to-woman-frame approach. 

Because if we select 1 human out of 8 billion at random, chances are much more likely that you will be born in a shitty part of the world than in a good part.
And we haven't even considered animals. If you reincarnate as a random animal, most animals have it pretty hard. Chances you are you will reincarnate as a chicken in a factory farm or a bug that goes SPLAT on a car window shield.
Actually pain is conceptual and something your mind is doing. If you become conscious enough you can literally stop feeling pain as painful.

Definitely BS
His advice is not bad for getting laid, but you're still gonna have to do 1000s of approaches to get good at it. There is no magic pill for getting good with girls. It requires years of training.

I drink sometimes like 0-2x a month or so. It's not always worth it. I prefer to drink only with people I am already familiar with so I don't make friends with people I don't care when sober
If I had friends that I hang out with only to use drugs I'd cut them off. It doesn't matter how harmful the drug of choice is
For the health part, less is more. I don't drink caffeine so I can't just get drunk and get myself up the next day with a stimulant like people do so I need to moderate.

It's called tinnitus. Fairly common on this forum. Meditation, spiritual work, and psychedelics can certainly cause it.

Austin is awesome.
Dating = awesome
Food = awesome
Activities = awesome
Culture = awesome
Cost of living = high but worth it
Worst part of Austin is the horrible traffic.

Lol
If I had a sister I wouldn't want her opening her legs for you because you're so damn insecure you don't deserve a woman.
Women want strong secure men. You disrespect women by being an insecure pussy.
You find peace by transforming yourself into a strong man who's dick women are eager to suck.
Talked about in my LP Course.

If you like her, be serious about it, go deep with it. You are young enough that you will have plenty of time left to explore.
You are being too meek with her. When you like a girl, you have to claim her. You are not leading the relationship properly, which is why she's uncertain and looking around for other guys. Do you want to own her pussy or not? It comes down to that.

Do not do it. You are cheating yourself out of an important authentic experience, literally.
Being able to attract someone and have sex with them is like a coming of age thing.
Have as much paid sex as you want after, but DO NOT let your first time be like that.
You will end up regretting it down the road.

You may not be aware of this social pattern, but prostitutes are often forced into prostitution because of poverty, life circumstances, drug addiction, or even being directly forced into it through pimps who control them and their livelihood through the threat of violence. So, the life of a prostitute is often a very miserable one. I think many of the men who visit prostitutes aren't aware of the fact that many of the women (and men) are some of the most vulnerable individuals who are being exploited, and that they're contributing to that exploitation. So, I personally wouldn't do this because I think it would make you feel yucky in the long run. Since your self-esteem is already rocky, I wouldn't put myself if that situation.
Leo did a video "Fake Growth v. Real Growth." This would be fake growth. I recommend first trying to hook up with a woman at a club who doesn't go to school with you. You don't even have to tell her that you're a virgin if you don't want to. Learn some pick up techniques, and try them out. Get over your shyness. That's the only reason why you haven't done it yet. I can almost guarantee you it's not your looks, your personality, or anything about your worth as an individual. It's just fear of rejection and low self-esteem... assuming that no woman would want you.
So, it's a matter of approaching and being willing to be rejected. You'll eventually, and probably in short order, find someone who's interested in hooking up with you. You assume that none of the women that you know are interested in you. But be careful with this assumption. Women are discouraged from approaching and do their best not to let on that they're attracted to the guy they're attracted to. If you show no interest, they're unlikely to show you interest first. So, try casually flirting with one of your female friends first to see what her response is. If her response is positive, flirt a little more. If she matches your flirtiness, flirt a little more. If she steps back, you step back. But this would probably be a better recommendation for establishing a relationship and not just hooking up.

@Extreme Z7 I was talking about philosophy degrees.
A Masters or PhD in engineering is much more functional.
Philosophy in particular is not meant to be studied in a university. This preverts the whole point of philosophy.
If you want to do serious philosophy, get yourself a bag of mushrooms and DMT and start doing yoga.

It's just not practical to do it randomly. What worked best for me is to go out with the plan to do 5-10 approaches.

When you got no creative outlet, no LP, yeah, you'll be jerking off multiple times a day. But when you cultivate a serious creative outlet you will be so busy you will barely have time to jerk off a few times a week.
Idle hands (and minds) do the devil's jerk
The less you pursue higher spiritual pleasures the more you will pursue lower carnal pleasures.

I'd do both. I did both when I started. They synergize nicely.
Night game is crucial for getting good with girls. Day game simply does not offer enough practice opportunities. Night game is your dojo.

Obviously
IQ is an extremely narrow measure of intelligence. Actual intelligence is a much broader and deeper thing.

@MM1988 Notice how egoic your perspective is. Just the fact that you are evaluating the fairness of life based on how much sex you do or do not get, is absurd. As if the universe cares about how much sexual pleasure you receive. No one cares about that but you. It's got zero importance at all in the big picture.
Also notice how you assume that if you don't have sex, then some other guy will have sex instead of you. This is a horribly warped and biased way of looking at things. Most of the time when sex doesn't happen is has nothing at all to do with another guy stealing that sex. Sex fails to happen for many reasons, many of them valid. A lot of times sex fails to happen because it was not supposed to happen, because the chemistry was missing, because you two were not a good match for each other, or simply because the logistics and timing was bad.
Nobody owes you sex. And nobody is competing with you for sex. Drop these toxic mindsets.
Relate to the whole woman. Right now you are relating to the sex.
The valid way of looking at things is: "Sexual pleasure has zero importance. If it happens, great. If not, oh well, I got important shit to do."

You need to build up momentum by going out consistently several nights a week. Then use that momentum to approach during the day.
It's hard to just do a random cold approach in the middle of the day while shopping for books. To be able to pull that off usually requires a few years of training. You need to get good at managing your internal state and cutting off all excuses. This requires 1000s of approaches. The first 1000 approaches will come with a lot of anxiety and hesitation so get them out of the way quickly.