Hey guys, newbie to game here, after some advice on an issue I keep butting my head up against. Bit of background, in march last year I weighed 150kg, bought a new car (thinking hey, this will make me happy), stupid boy racer turbo fun car, flew interstate to get it, and low and behold, I was to fat to fit into the bucket seats. I still bought the car, only now it was like that shirt you buy and go 'I'll wear it when I lose weight', only a car is a much better motivator than a shirt. In the 10 months since then I've dropped 35kg, gotten heaps stronger (520kg total on the big 3, thank you 5x5 training), and instead of not going out, I go out 2 - 4 times a week now, every week. My self esteem and confidence have gone up, I've even had some makeouts (usually due to alcohol, being high, or chance I guess), however on NYE, I basically blew it with 2 different 9/10's, I'd talk, build attraction, then fail to close, at which point I decided I needed to get this part of my life in order. The problem is, I'm still a virgin, and everytime I get to the hook point, I fuck it up and blow it / overthink it (I've literally had a girl eating my face, hinting that we should leave, at which point I go uhh, I need to go to the bathroom...and then I bail and ditch the girl...more than once now).

Even worse, after a music festival last year, I picked up a girl, she invited me back to her hotel to party with her friends (she was down for one night interstate...perfect no strings attached logistics), was going great, then I got stuck in my head, started overthinking it, couldn't keep her / my state up, basically turned into a neurotic beta, and I couldn't close it, I ended up sleeping on the couch, her sleeping in the other room. She even came out of her room after her friend went to sleep in the other room, and was like I can't sleep, there's a fly buzzing about in my room (clearly an opportunity for me to initiate), but I didn't, instead killed the fly with my hands (thanks years of martial arts training), said you can sleep now, and went back to the couch. I was just so stuck in my head, thinking oh she'll know I'm shit, know I'm a virgin, she'll think I'm a wierdo, etc. What sucked about that, was the next day, when I went to the bathroom & saw a condom left out on the sink, I felt like the biggest fucking loser. I mean the girl not giving my LMR, but me having LMR, fuck.

The bigger problem now, is after reading about / applying pick up stuff, I can get in state pretty quickly, build attraction fast, and as soon as I sense it's on, I bounce out of set or pre-emptively reject the girl I guess. It's not due to standards or anything (doesn't matter if the girl is a 6 or a 9, either way, I open, joke around high energy, before you know it the girl is gaming me, kino-ing me, start building comfort, it's going great, then boom, I'll bounce out of set and go open someone else).

I don't know whether my beliefs are fucked up (probably), or whether it's just being 26 and not having the reference experience of having had sex that fucks me up, and whether I should just see a prostitute and get it over with (legal where I live, though I'd probably just get to the brothel, sit in my car for 20 minutes and drive home). It's doing my head in that I can now consistently open, build attraction, get to the hook point with a girl I'm attracted to, then I go and fuck it up by bailing. Any advice would be appreciated, maybe I need to go and see a shrink, I don't know.

TL:DR - Fear of escalating & closing at the hook point holding me back, what do?