I have never had a girlfriend but all my friends are female. I am nineteen and really confused about how relationships, intimacy, and sex work. I don't know how to create an intimate connection to someone else. I have female friends that I feel emotions for, such as being happy when I'm around her or enjoying talking to her. The problem is that what I am told from normal people is that there is something non-physical that you feel between two people when you create an intimate connection. I have never felt this before. Even with my male friends, there is no actual connection that would make then worth anything more than some other random guy on the street. In terms of sex, since there is no intimacy, I look at my female friends the same way as a prostitute. It would just be meaingless sex. So when I was younger I actually decided to lose my virginity to a prostitute. It was fun, even got to snort cocaine off her ass, but there was no intimacy. I decided to try out sex because I was confused about how an intimate connection is formed. I wasn't sure if you needed to do sexual stuff in order to create that intimate connection, or if the intimatre connection somehow forms on its own and then once you have that connection then you know it is time to do sexual stuff.
So how does someone form an intimate connection. It seems that most people do sexual stuff in order to form that connection. Most people start getting sexual on the first date by kissing, and I have seen on dating forums that the acceptable time frame to have intercourse in three to five dates. Does that mean that the intimate connection formed that fast? After an hour dinner you already have an intimate connection and can start doing sexual stuff such as kissing? Or is it the other way around that in order to create the intimate connection that couple decided that they would want to kiss?
I don't understand this how this stuff works.