trying to adopt an amoral worldview

[Rev. Rye]

If getting laid is going to be your main goal, well, you basically have three options:

1) Try and improve yourself, give girls a reason to want to be with you, and get out there and try it.

2) Keep doing either nothing or doing worse than nothing, in which case, you're unlikely to get anywhere. If you somehow end up becoming a successful pickup artist, be aware that, best case scenario, it's a dead end and you're probably going to try to get out of it at some point; the guy who literally wrote the book on pickup artistry ended up doing this.

3) This is going to be an unusual and niche solution, particularly for people on the autism spectrum whose early development did not go well, and especially for people who've come to realise that interpersonal relationships are a minefield that you're not sure you can navigate long term (see: The Phantom Thread or Schopenhauer's parable of the porcupines), try something like, for instance, a RealDoll (as seen in Lars and the Real Girl). Unfortunately, since those start off at $4,000 and even then, as many options as they may have, they might not just be right, a cheaper option may be in order. What I've chosen was a dakimakura (a Japanese hugging pillow). The component parts? A 20x60 pillow by Acanva which may or may not be on Amazon, and a Custom body pillow cover with two full-body shots of underrated aughts actress Alison Lohman on either side. While it took me three months to actually get it in the mail from China (the burgeoning pandemic and the holidays may have had something to do with it), the customer service is extremely prompt. Once you give them the images you want to use (and they're okay with copyrighted images, fortunately), they'll work with you to make it look the way you want it to (be sure to use photos that can actually fit with the 3:1 aspect ratio of the pillow). I don't think that any email I sent them spent more than an hour without a reply. And once you actually get the pillow in the case, you have an ersatz girlfriend! And Alison and I will be celebrating our one-year anniversary in over two weeks.