I'm 23 and I'm humiliated because I still haven't had my first kiss

I’m 23 and I’m humiliated because I still haven’t had my first kiss – here’s what is holding me back

• Anneliese, 23, has never been kissed or had a romantic relationship
• The American woman is ‘horrified’ and ‘worried’ she’ll never find love

A 23-year-old woman has revealed her ‘humiliation’ and ‘fear’ after still not having her first kiss in her early twenties – and she doesn’t see her fate changing anytime soon.

Anneliese has never had a boyfriend and isn’t one to proposition strangers at a bar.

The American woman also admitted she’s ‘horrified’ at the thought of telling someone about her inexperience, and it gets worse every year she gets older.

Anneliese said that despite feeling left behind, she refuses to just kiss anyone to get it over and done with.

‘I have to know the person I kiss before I kiss them,’ she said in a now-viral video. ‘I don’t think I can make out with a random stranger. It has to be someone I know and care for.’

Anneliese, 23, from the U.S., has never kissed anyone or had a boyfriend, and she isn’t one to proposition strangers at a bar

She first revealed her panic at the state of her love life and lamented over how ’embarrassed’ she feels.

‘I’m actually starting to get scared,’ she said. ‘It’s not even funny anymore. I’m 23, and I still have not had my first kiss – it’s so horrifying.’

Anneliese said that when she was 21 and 22, she could play her inexperience off as ‘cute’ and ‘quirky’ – but it was too late for that now.

‘It’s getting scary. I don’t see it changing anytime soon and I just keep getting older.

‘It’s weird because I’m going to be so old and I’ll have to tell someone I’ve never kissed anyone before. I’m so humiliated.’

The young woman explained she never even had an ‘awkward middle school boyfriend’ she ‘dated’ for a day and pecked on the lips.

‘I’m really starting to feel like something’s wrong with me. I don’t know why I am the way that I am. It’s not good.’

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Thousands offered her advice on how to rectify her situation, but Anneliese revealed why it’s been hard to change her relationship status.

‘Everyone’s first bit of advice is always to go to a bar, get drunk, and make out with someone, or go on a dating app and find someone and kiss him.

‘But my first problem is that I don’t drink, and I don’t think I could go up to a stranger sober. I would be so anxious the whole time!’

The second issue was the lack of intimacy these options offered.

‘I don’t think I can make out with a random stranger, it has to be someone I know and care for. So then, I’d have to get a boyfriend before I have my first kiss, and that’s a whole other set of problems because I don’t know how to do that.’

Anneliese revealed the idea of kissing a stranger made her want to ‘throw up’.

‘What if it’s awful? What if he tells his friends he kissed me and it was a bad kiss?’ she asked.

‘I also think about things that have happened in my past for years to come, so if I have a bad first kiss I’ll never be able to forget it,’ she said finally.

Despite feeling left behind, Anneliese said she refuses to just kiss anyone to get it over with

Many others shared similar stories about their love lives.

‘I honestly feel relieved seeing that others haven’t had their first kiss yet either,’ a woman said. ‘I’m halfway through college and still nothing.’

‘I’m 27 and no one has ever held my hand,’ another revealed.

‘I’ll be 30 in six months and I’ve never had a boyfriend – I feel the same way,’ a third wrote.