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@Jmunk The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene would be the best book to start with.

Gold.

Man, I really had to force myself to finish reading your post. What a long-winded rambling! You sound like a woman. Tip #1. Stop being honest about this shit. Nobody wants to hear about your struggles. That's just an extra burden for them to carry. It's your shit not theirs. You need to learn to deal with it. Other people just want the good bits. Tip #2. You're feeling ashamed because your masculinity is taking a hit every time you reveal this stuff to other people. You need to trust this feeling. It is correct. Your reptilian brain is where you are feeling this shame, and it doesn't lie. Mystery is attractive and you are killing the mystery. Tip #3. Confidence is sexy. Confidence is a direct result of doing courage. If your only courage is setting up an online profile then you're screwed. That won't build any kind of practical confidence. Like aurum said, go talk to girls in person. Get out of the house and off the computer.

Ask yourself, how can you do more of what you already enjoy doing? The rest doesn't really matter.

Know that the fear will never, ever go away. Never. Your task is to learn how to accept it, embrace it and perform in spite of it. And to do that you must get on stage, over and over again, so that you know your fear intimately, its needs and wants, how to befriend it. When you begin to feel the fear do not fight it. Instead focus on it, go into it and let it spread throughout your entire body and awareness. You will find the feeling better than any high. Depending on where you live, I suggest that you try a few improv classes. Most schools will give you stage time at the end of the term, and you can form a troupe with your classmates to do further performances. This is the probably the quickest way to gain stage experience and master stage fright. Getting on stage with no safety net, not even knowing what you're going to say or do until you do it, knowing that each and every time you go on stage you could fuck it up. Now that's what I call fun!

Off the top of my head: The Count of Monte Cristo Apocalypto Indiana Jones

Sounds like a great time to focus on your life purpose instead of slacking off.

Sounds like a winning business model to me. The new age Gigolo- healing women with sex.

You'll have to play it one way or another. Women will be in your life wherever you go.

Men and women can be friends. But it will never be the same kind of friendship between same sex friends. The reason: things have much greater potential to change once your opposite sex friend enters/leaves a relationship. The same is not true for your same sex friend.

@Anirban657 In which domains of life do you put yourself first? That is where you are alpha.

@The Monk "Needing" sex is natural. You need sex. You'll never ever get rid of that urge to have sex with women. You just need to channel it. Sounds like you also want a relationship. So that's one way you could get sex. You don't need to date more than one woman to get the sex you need, so stop putting that limit on yourself. Get a girlfriend, have sex and you'll feel normal.

Yes they can. In fact, they are constantly testing you against other men all the time. Even when you are in a relationship. They want to know that you are their best option and will test relentlessly that you are the man they chose to invest in.

Don't judge. It's the way things are. They are beautiful to the core once you have accepted truth. And they are very, very good at weeding out boys from men. It is a survival trait developed over millions of years of evolution and it continues to work very efficiently to this day.

Trust this fear, it is correct. Women have so many more options than you realise. These days in the West you are only a couple of days away (if that) from being put in the friendzone with any high value woman you show sexual interest in. Once you show your interest and you give her those arousal cues and she feels some kind of sexual arousal towards you, you need to keep her feeling them or they'll dissolve and she'll assume you're not interested in anything more than friendship. Yes, it's possible to start as friends and build up towards a relationship, but that's only if she hasn't already ruled you out as a potential lover. That is, you haven't given her any indication one way or another that you're interested (this is extremely difficult to do, especially if you're needy). Once you're in the friendzone you're fucked.

Men and women are fundamentally different in the reptilian brain- the part of the brain responsible for survival and reproduction; where masculinity and femininity reside. So anything relevant to survival and reproduction will be expressed differently by men and by women. Which is pretty much everything. However, we are very similar in capability in our mammalian brains- the part of the brain responsible for emotions, and our higher brains- rationing, reasoning, creativity, logic, boundaries, consciousness etc. That is, we are all able to experience the same types and intensities of emotion, we are all able to work the same jobs, we can all be creative etc. So what happens when you combine the reptilian brain with the mammalian and higher brain is you get a much higher probability that those mammalian and higher brains will be used in a masculine or feminine way. Not always but most of the time men will act like men and women like women because it is masculinity and femininity at the core that's powering everything; the spark plug of the engine if you will. It's possible to overcome this core of our beings with enough willpower, but it will always be the default state, the natural state when you're not paying attention, when your observing ego is switched off and your habits come online. And it will feel much, much better for you to behave in accordance with your masculinity and femininity, to get all three brains lined up, instead of fighting it. In other words, women will feel most alive when they act like women, and men when they act like men.

@Hallo_Leo Do you love yourself?

Also considering starting a YouTube channel. Does anyone have any tips or can recommend some good books on the subject?

Practicing Tantra can help.

@clytaemnestra Let us consider the question from the standpoint of courtship. When a man and a woman do the courtship dance, they run tests on each other that increase in complexity as the courtship progresses. Here's what it looks like: Woman is beautiful, man is intriguing Woman is generous, man is masterful Woman is challenging, man is triumphant A "nice" girl is someone who is comfortable with step 2, but doesn't often progress to step 3 of the courtship. That is, she gives of herself freely, is warm and flirtatious, but doesn't challenge men very often and in so doing denies them the opportunity to pass her tests and "win her over" (hence "triumphant"). Taken to an extreme, you might say this person is a doormat. On the other hand, when a woman skips step 2 and goes straight to step 3, she is being challenging without giving of herself. This is what you might call a "bitch". This person would push a lot of men, including some really awesome men, away, because they haven't been shown enough of her good side to want to pass her tests. All effort for unknown reward. Best to have balance among all 3.

@tashawoodfall Find a guy who's interested in becoming more dominant but hasn't explored that yet. You can both grow together as you learn to become more submissive with him. Growing together you learn to trust each other more and more. Which will allow you to reach higher heights than with strangers. It will unlock something in you that you never thought possible. You're just waiting to discover it, you just don't know it yet.

Reality doesn't always appeal to everyone. It would help though if people stopped confounding sexy (i.e. concerned with sexual arousal) and attractiveness. You don't have to be sexy to be attractive. Actually that's entirely the reason couples manage to stick together as they age.

Perhaps it's hard wired into us to want to be more than human. As if we're in denial of our nature- biological, physical, earthly nature. We look to the skies and manufacture perfect beings of light that have no faults. Or perhaps that's just a certain demographic. There were once people's who worshipped earthly gods, half-human half animal gods. They were labelled "Pagans" by the Romans and demonised. I don't see it as cynical at all. More like grounded and realistic.

@username You have been idealising her, holding her up on a pedestal as if she were some perfect Goddess. But she is not perfect. No woman is. You need to understand this for yourself though. So here's what you can do: 1. Make a list of all the ways that she is not perfect; 2. Visualise the kind of woman that has these problems sorted; 3. Work on improving yourself so that you can attract that kind of woman (life purpose, working out, building self-esteem); 4. Go and approach women who you think fit these preferences. It will also help if you can cut off all communication with her and distance yourself from her as much as possible. Good luck.

Correct. They could take it or leave it. They are never 100% in during that relationship, and can easily go 100% out when the relationship ends.