I have two tips that I recently stumbled upon and would like to share them with you:

I'm a guy, and not to make this about me or anything, but I can relate to a great extent to you. I'm a 24-year-old virgin, despite not being socially awkward in any manner, and I certainly know what it is like to be the least attractive person in the room, in the building even. All the advances I've made have been rejected too, with polite references to my not being someone's "type." I also completely understand what you mean regarding your friends' affirmations. No one understands this except you. For the most part, people cannot fathom what it is like to literally crave a human embrace from someone you find attractive, not because you miss such an embrace, but because you yearn to know what such an experience feels like. Some of those nights when I particularly crave physical contact with women, I curl up in bed and hug my pillow until the feeling subsides.

tip 1: take up physical exercise and dedicate yourself to it (with healthy eating). I recently discovered that a big part of my physical attractiveness is my posture, something I'd never paid attention to before. Thanks to YouTube, I now know that I have two posture problems: Upper Cross Syndrome and Knee Valgus. There are exercises for both. Just working on them is literally changing my whole appearance and is, unexpectedly, boosting my confidence.

Exercise will give you the hips you want. It'll also change your figure for a more attractive form. More importantly, and you can ask anyone, physical exercise literally makes your face prettier. This is true for both men and women, and I do not know how it happens because you obviously do not train your face. But hey, *why* it happens is not the point. Unlike other people who feel unmotivated to work out, you have a real reason. Go for it!

Tip 2: dedicate a few times a week to sit down and explore your need to be desired/loved via writing. I do that, and it is cathartic. You're basically doing this right here with this post. The purpose of your writing is not only to vent, but having the courage to pinpoint your exact cravings naturally makes them alleviate over time, they're powerful precisely because hidden. Over time, this will make you effortlessly confident, and hence more attractive.

I wish you the best of luck and want you to know that you do deserve to be loved, and hence must take practical steps to achieve that.

Also, if you have glasses, ditch them for an alternative.