I don't want advice, just want to know if you have a similar story. This will sound cringe, so be warned...

I'm in my condo's rooftop garden to do some yoga. I see a sexy women standing by the door of the garden. I enter and say hello. She replies with a hello as I pass.

I head to my yoga area and when I look back, she's still there.

"Would you like to do yoga with me?" I say.

She laughs. "No, I'm just waiting for my friends."

I start to tease her a bit, and she asks if she needs to tap the elevator panel to go downstairs. I said no, but I can help out.

So, we walk through the hallway toward the elevators. Everything is convivial, relaxed. I suspect she's a local prostitute by the way she's dressed. I screen her to confirm she's a night club dancer.

We wait for the elevator to arrive, and to break the awkward silence, I ask her for her name.

"Nasty," she says.

"N-Nasty?" I say.

"Nasty," she says.

We stare at each other, and I'm trying to come up with something to say. This is the moment. And. I. Laugh.

This breaks her gaze, but she follows it up.

"What's your name?" she says.

I say my name, and it's relatably Russian. She instantly relaxes, and she reveals she's stressed. And I break the touch barrier and give her a playful shoulder massage.

But I don't know how to go from here to my bedroom, so I ask some stupid filler question and by then, the elevator has arrived. She goes in and...yeah.

I go back to the garden, feeling like I did the right and wrong thing. Yes, I was helpful, and she thanked me for it. It was a good deed. But it was wrong, because, well, she gave me a window. And I was too scared to walk through it.

So yeah, I'm beating myself up for it, not because of my lack of technical ability, but the fear of revealing my sexual interest. Being sexual. Being a man.

Have you had a similar story? How was your journey from timid to being unabashedly sexual? I'm sure it was a slow process.