Found this thread after replying to the escort review post as it's the only part of the site that I normally frequent. My replies may be harsh but sometimes that is the only way:
It certainly seems like you are aiming for women that out of your league. There is no such as thing as the friendzone, if she is attracted to you and you have resources you will never enter the friendzone unless she is already involved with someone in which case she will keep you in her orbit as a standby if things go wrong with her current partner.
You think it's immoral to have sex with a woman who is offering it to you as means to get into a relationship? What do you think about their morals for being willing to do that? Guess what, there is no difference between those women and the women that are friend zoning you, if you was good looking enough the ones friendzoning you would be offering you the same proposition. This makes sense if you are getting tinder offers, as on tinder the women are also unrealistic, you will get offers from women who are slightly below you on the looks scale.
It could be solely due to culture but I am pretty certain you have unrealistic views and expectations of what women actually are and have an elevated view of yourself. No woman is going to be attracted to your intellect, it will always come behind looks and resources. This mythical woman you have in your head does not exist and will never exist. I will hedge that where you are from most marriages where traditionally arranged so it did n't matter that the cultural view vs reality was distorted.
You need to be honest with yourself and be more introspective. What is more important: that you lose your viginity or who you lose it to? Does it matter who you lose it to? Does it matter if does n't match your expectations? Would you have sex with an escort from your own country if there was no chance of being caught? If not why not?
This has been interesting for me. My experience with the forum and my one punt.
I'd like to think I know myself well and am brutally honest to myself. But framing things that happened is tricky. It's quite hard to understand but the narrative you spin actually affects the truth.
The way I choose to see myself affects my self esteem. There is less of an objective reality I'm trying to discover and more of a spectrum. A lot of this is self fulfilling prophecies. The truth is underdetermined by such facts, you have to decide what has salience. Which aspects you focus or ignore.
Anyway with that caveat out of the way.
I know and agree I am going for women far out of my league and porn has definitely a lot to blame. I also find it hard to internalize just how little value my intellect has to most girls.
But attraction seems to be non negotiable. I know what I want and I'm willing to work towards the goal. It's too early for me to give up and compromise.
The growth mindset means I channel my failures to become motivation to grow and become someone in their league. I know my potential and I would be willing to take the settle approach if I felt I had hit a limit.
I was discussing one possible reason why I might have reservations. Part of it is me growing up and parents drilling it into my head "don't break a girls heart".
Part of it is me scared that I'd think with my dick, let my positive sentiment override take over and marry someone who isn't a good long term fit.
Limerence, love and sex are dangerous stuff that can bias my long term decision making in bad directions.
I'm totally open to the possibility that the holy grail I'm looking for doesn't exist. Honestly at this point I'm pretty convinced that I need experience and dating people is the only way I can learn more about what I want in relationships and sex. So yeah it's a whole process to go from rationally understanding this to emotionally grokking it.
You are right. My parents are trying to push me to get into an arranged marriage. Lmao imagine that gamble.
Nah virginity is not a big deal to me. Escorts are fine too if I believe it was a legitimate consensual transaction. But like others said, I tried the experiment.
Maybe I was nervous, maybe she wasn't hot enough, but it often isn't one reason for most stuff. I know atleast a large part of the reason was that I wasn't really looking for sex.
It was clear then. What I was seeking... I've been in love, I've been physically intimate (not sex) with her. I wanted that high and mechanical sex? I'd rather get a sex doll.
But yeah maybe experienced escorts can act so well that I'd be convinced of that connection, that she is attracted to me. But to some extent I need to let go, suspend disbelief, I don't think I can do that now.
Maybe the next time I'm in the uk. If I try now it will likely be a waste of money lmao. I can hardly feel horny looking at hot girls in London nowadays. Haha it feels almost like I'm traumatized. Or maybe I'm free now? I used to be so horny all the time. Now in some sense I realised that no matter how pretty the girl is, it matters not unless she likes me back. I don't want to fuck her.
Not sure if I want to give up on the peace of mind I have now. My career is very important to the world and maybe my productivity is worth protecting.
But yeah a massage seems worth the money. So I would like to try that haha..