EDIT: You guys have managed to changed my mind. From now on I think that it is best for me to seek good relationships by looking for sex. For reasons unknown this seems to work best for me.

However we are all similar but different individuals and for other men this might not be the best strategy though

Mods feel free to lock this one.

Because thats the best way to start a GOOD relationship.

Obviously relationships which organicaly grow are an exception, but you can't plan those... they just happen or they don't.

Looking at my past all my relationships in which I felt validated and my partner was happy started with us being horny, and having sex which grew into a relationship.

My dating problems arrise when I'm single and I start looking for a relationship.

To start it off, with modern women working and being financialy independent our commitment is not nearly as worthy as it was 100 years. Also woman commitment has became valuable. At the same time while men have a harder time finding sex, women have a harder time finfing a good sex partner (orgasm gap) so a guy which is good at sex does have value.

When a guy is looking for a relationship for a woman it seems like he is offering his already not that worthy commitment cheaply. Furthermore women will often make a guy wait to make themselves feel more valuable.

This creates a situation in which woman seems more valuable then man does. Woman will feel like settling, guy might feel reject the woman which doesn't find him valuable. Or he might feel lucky for "catching" a woman more valuable then him... at first. Later on, vanila sex, dead beedroom, the reveal of sexual past and guy can end up just as unhappy, if not more.

However if relationship starts with sex. Woman already feels that man is valuable sex wise, man feels validated.

And both of them still have commitment to share, that can create a situation in which both partners feel validated and feel like their partner is valuable.