If you're 'lonely' purely due to a lack of sex, you're not 'lonely', you're just horny.

It's manipulative to call your degree of sexual desperation 'lonely'. Loneliness is about a lack of empathy, understanding, or connection. It's a social and emotional need that runs deep. Isolation can be tragic, devastating. It's the feeling that no one cares about you, that you're invisible.

While I know there are individuals with these feelings, there's also a plethora of posters claiming the term purely for their sexual wants while insisting they have a socially active life with friends and family. When men post on here about being "lonely" but in the same sentence insist that the answer is purely sexual with zero emotional connection to the person, such as hookups, one-night stands, and purely casual interactions, that's dishonest and a misuse of the term.

It comes off as if you are trying to garner pity sex by appealing to a certain sadness and longing that in reality, you don't feel. Your penis doesn't have emotional feelings. If what you want is genuine emotional connection, understanding, and empathy, you have to communicate actual feelings. If all you want is sexual fulfillment with zero emotional connection, you are not lonely, and it isn't that deep, per your own admission.