I (19m) don't where else to post this and need some advice here. I want to date /have casual sex/ have fun or romance with women and I've gotten some advice from people on how to do this. One of which has been to just make friends with women and everything else will follow. This makes some sense to me and does seem convincing but I already have mostly women as my friends. (My friend group might become all women as my non binary friend has talked about maybe being trans fem.)
I have the best friend group of 3 I could ask for as they been with me through thick and thin! They are basically my best friends and we talk a lot. And I have 1 or 2 others I'm not as close too.
My question is if I'm friends with a woman isn't that as far as that will go? Like I don't know how to make friends and show interest its a little bit of alien concept to me. If I act like a super platonic friend for 2 years and all of sudden ask that girl out wont that be jarring and of course not reciprocated?
I want to know If I am just over complicating it and need to just be more social and I will have success. 1 of my 3 close friends actually said she did have a crush on me at one point! But she said as much after she was over it and we both agreed we are much better friends than anything else.