I've never been good with girls (never had a GF) and I'm turning 30 soon ... Good thing I make money for escorts or it would be too hard to handle. I have no clue how to deal with it. I have no social skills.
I never been good with girls either. Only had 2 brief girlfriends as a teen (around 3-4 months each) and it happened both times in a "special context", like one was litteraly matched by my half-sister and she did ALL the job lol, the other we met online on a video game so it really helped (only text keyboard back then too, no vocal chat). When the second story finish there was a huge time gap, like between 16 til 22 y.o nothing happened, then by 22 i started the strippers and by 24 the escorts.
Im really happy things turned out ok for me. I mean the discovery of the Montreal escort world (being a guy from a small town) and even tough you would ask me today what you would prefer, keep seeing escort or a "normal" girlfriend, well i would go with the girlfriend, yet the escorts fill something for me that i would otherwise lack. I always been a very sexual person, and when i was 17 or so til 24 i kept watching porn and could only imagine how it would feel, i had kinda resigned myself that it would never happen to me and it would be like those things in life i have very small chances to see happening. But one friend backed from our "music show + stripper trip" , at the same time one Montreal escort toured close to my little town, and boom it happened and here i am 10+ years later. Im gratefull for that even if TODAY i kinda wish i could go with something different.
But like you say i always lacked some social skills too. The online world kinda helped me a lot in that departement as i am very confident there but somehow i could never translate this to women. The jobs i had never really helped me meeting girls either (it was most of the time jobs where i was alone or with 1 or 2 dudes only) and i never been one to go clubbing or such. My apperance also always made me shy to try anything with girls.
With escorts i still keep some shyness but at the same time its not the same, i mean i know whats gonna happen, they know why they are there, so i just have to be me pretty much and the rest does not matter. I mean i always make sure to be nice, respectfull etc, its normal, but i don't have to be scared about what im gonna tell her or the conversation we will have. Im not trying to "impress" her thats what im meaning.
These days i don't really know where i am at in term of all of this. I lost 65 pounds compare to where i was just in April. And i show no sign of slowing down, i mean right now im at the gym and i eat healthy and never in large quantity etc etc. Im even thinking about trying that tinder thingy i keep hearing about when i drop 20 more pounds. But im now in my mid 30s, i lost a lot of hairs in the later years, i start to show my age a bit more, i couldn't be able to go back to the 20s dating scene style probably...
But the truth is im so behind in the dating departement that even if in a year or so i look "good" and gone under my current weight objective and things keep improving on my side, still i don't have the skills to go on a date with a mid 30s woman with kids and such. Im not ready for that. I mean me a father, or a father figure? LOL no...
So all of this to say yes my situation is not the most "normal" yet i would never wish harm on anybody for it. Do i wish i would had been that popular kid in school with the cheerleader hot chick? Yeah... Am i a bit jealous when i see all these instagram models in their early 20s having parties with big muscle guys and traveling the world and such? A bit... But thats life... There is some rich, some poor, some in between like me that despite not having all of what they want, is still lucky to have a roof, food, a fair share of the entertainement i want (in my case my movies and video games) and im enjoying life friends... So no hate on my part lol.
So basically this whole "incel" or whatever its call, i think its not different than the derenged terrorists and such. Peoples with mental illness who use something in life to justify their evil actions.