Originally Posted by The SARS Volta

Good advice--everyone who contributed.

Personally I feel that in this case, hint-dropping won't work since he's not especially intuitive. n00b with girls = usually not going to 'get it'. I don't want to cause bad blood over something I don't see as very serious myself, while he does feel seriously because he is naive.
I remember hearing from many sources, him drunkenly punching out the windshield of his own car after a girl told him "no" when he asked her out. She left, and he destroyed his sports car (of course mommy and daddy paid it off). That event story is motivation to cut him out completely if anything.

I'm going to have to brace myself for some irritating insecurity-driven questions when it comes to me not wanting intimacy with him ("Am I ugly?!" "What's WRONG with me?!").
...I never wanted a GIRLfriend.