>>33840333
>I feel like the insecurity of being a virgin is stopping me from pursuing a relationship.
This is so fuckin pants-on-head backwards

no one fuckin know you're a virgin on your dating profile or when you're walking around being a guy on the street, no one knows you're a virgin when you're going on dates. even having sex it may not even be obvious that you're a virgin, my first time I told the girl after the fact and she was like "huh, could've fooled me"

and buying sex from hookers will translate to 0 real life skills or knowledge or confidence with real women. hookers only leads to more hookers.

>I’ve tried the whole “it’ll happen when it happens” shtick but it’s never happened for me. Idk why, I can make female friends who I love wholeheartedly but just can’t get a girlfriend for whatever reason.
The whatever reason sounds like what you said just there where "it'll happen when it happens" sounds like you just waited around waiting for a girlfriend to materialize in front of you without actually making anything happen or put anything in motion.