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I'm 29 years old. I'm currently unemployed- I founded my own company and ran it for five years, but it never became profitable, and I had to liquidate it. I don't have any friends any more- the few friendships I've ever managed to make over the course of my life never lasted, with each supposed 'friend' breaking off all contact with me without warning and for no apparent reason other than that they were bored with me. And I've never had a girlfriend; I've never had sex, never had sexual contact, never passionately kissed, and never gone on my first date.

That's largely thanks to the fact that I've been virgin-shamed since I was in my early teens, and it's only got worse and worse as I've got older. But it's also because, while I've always wanted a girlfriend, perhaps more than anything else in the world, I also always wanted to be able to support her, and to be able to take full responsibility for anything which might have resulted from a relationship. I wanted to build a career first, and be capable of supporting a family financially before I set about making one. I wanted to be worthy, aspiring to be that ideal, strong, responsible and successful husband for my ideal wife. But it's too late for that now- the business failed, so that ship has sailed.

I may still be a virgin, for non-religious reasons, and romanticise love and affection in a relationship, but I'm also a closet nymphomaniac. I've always had a libido that was off the charts, and while I've managed to hold myself back for all these years, I've become practically obsessed with sex. I really want to do it, and I know that I have everything that it takes to be great at it. I've been trying to get a girlfriend all this time, through online dating and at singles events, but no-one's ever really wanted to know me, and I've never been able to devote 100% of my time and effort to it. So, how would you rate my chances of getting a girlfriend? And how, if at all, could those chan