I don't feel a need for "friends" anymore

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Not needing friends is a problem? As someone who feels the same way, it seems to me to be a large positive.

yeah your totally right

I have a desire for friends, but I have an equally strong desire not to sit around and make smalltalk all day.

I kind of feel like I have to make more friends than I really feel like making, in order to find a girlfriend. It's the only way I can convince women that I don't just want to get in their pants. And the primary reason I want a girlfriend is so I can have children.

As for the sex part... I feel morally repulsed by the idea of having a one-night stand with some woman at a bar, probably drunk, who has a 90% chance of regretting it the next morning. So an actual girlfriend is also the only way I can get any. Which makes it even more difficult because I DO want to get in their pants. Compounding the difficulty is the fact that I am also unwilling to get into an unhappy relationship, just to get some. To me, that's basically the same as a one-night stand. So my only recourse is not to try to get a girlfriend, but just make friends and pray.

Virginity at 30 is bad, but unhappy relationships are worse.

no, because then you aren't being honest either with yourself, your "friends", or the girl.

I didn't meet my girlfriend thru friends. I met her at my former job.

Y'know how I met her? By being me. Focusing on the values that I support and aim to embody; she found this appealing in me. Not by me desperately hoping to get in a girl's pants or anything like that.

I went through a period in grade school where I thought it'd be really cool to have a "best friend" who was always there for me. But eventually it dawned on me that I would have to be "always there" for them, and I decided the cost of bestfriendship was too high. I would say I've always had friends, but they're more people I like to do stuff with or enjoy having around in my environment than people I seek out. In high school a friend once exclaimed, "I don't know how you stood eighth grade, when you had no friends and nobody liked you." But in eighth grade I would have said I had friends because there were people who were polite to me and who would respond if I said "hi" or whatever.

At the time I thought she meant I had no friends who were "cool," and she probably did, but I paid more attention after that and realized that most people "get together" outside of school for all kinds of reasons, and especially to "hang out" and just spend time together, which was not something that particularly appealed to me. I guess I defined friends as "people who are friendly", so as long as I had plenty of people at school who weren't actively attacking me and didn't mind if I sat with them in class, I had friends. I've always hated the whole "hanging out with friends" thing. I don't mind doing stuff with people and I don't mind talking about important stuff with people (in moderation -- I need alone time, for sure), but the whole social talk thing leaves me cold. My closest friends, while we do "get together," either there's something specifically planned or we both read whatever book we're individually into at the moment.

I will say, however, that when I get in that "mood" where even people I usually enjoy are boring, either I've been socializing more than usual (like at a convention or something), or there's some serious stress in my life that I'm not dealing with. So either I need more alone time or I need to change jobs to something where I don't have to deal with people so much or otherwise lower that people-contact stress level. If it happens with one person that they're boring, then maybe our obsessions have diverged to the point of too few contacts, but if it's friends, plural, being boring, then it's usually not so much about the friendships as about other stresses, usually about too much contact with people in general, but sometimes about there being too much noise at work or at home or some other low-level-but-constant stress going on.

Well, I don't consider myself isolated at all, but I do a lot of introverted activities. Does that still put me at risk?

I had a 'friend' in high school who beat me at every damn thing we ever played. RTS especially. They seem to reward executive skills.