Chancer357: You have to realise that you are in a vicious cycle. No success=no confidence, no confidence = no success.
And there are many more vicious cycles we are in...
For example, lack of experience means that we don't feel comfortable near women, so we don't get women, so we don't get experience.
Having no girlfriend means that you are labeled as sexually undesirable by the people that know you, which in itself is a big obstacle to your attempt to get a girlfriend.
and many more...
But I am trying to escape from them. Its HARD! It is!! but not impossible...
For example, on the confidence thing, even though I have had no girlfriend or any intimate contact from women in my entire life (never been kissed either) I do realise the way I have changed. By working out, changing my style I have become MUCH more attractive (have had compliments, plus the way people treat me is considerably different). I give out the persona of a positive, confident and secure individual. I pay attention to my body language. I recently started to get interest signals from women (and unfortunately never had the balls to do something about that, or if I did, messed it up, but you know what, there's billions more women)
On the lack of experience, I compensate by reading all sorts of material about getting women (this forum, Without Embarrassment, AlphaMaleProject, DoubleyourDating etc.). And I now know off the top of my head loads of stuff about how the whole dating game works... It is not the same as experience, but it can help me compensate a great deal until I start getting experience of my own!
About the lack of social proof, I like to let people think that I see lots of women, and of course that I have had lots of experience in the past. When asked if I have a girlfriend, I reply with something like
"Not in this time zone" or
"yeah, got a few of those... Oh you mean an EXCLUSIVE one? Of course not! <grin>"
And always when asked about my life I imply I have a decent love life.
Note that this works on people who aren't really close to you. My close friends know that I have problems with women, but I try not to talk to them about it so as to not show lack of confidence and insecurity...
ThePanther