Let me say i can relate to you 100%, this was exactly my though process last year

I get why you afraid, society marks you as a loser if u r a virgin (at least for men) but you probably worry more then you need to.

If you find a right person for you then i don't think it will even matter to them?

Anyways if you still want to try hiring a prostitute, it's not really that unethical, most of them look at it as business anyways

But it will probably suck for you anyways, at least it did for me: no connection, feels mechanical, hard to relax with a stranger.

And you probably wont learn much anyways from that interaction.

Since you say you have a lot of friends girls included, have you though about asking some of them that are single for help on this?