But the confidence and experience gained from just talking to all of those women will get you closer to your goal, hell, just the way it erodes your fear of rejection will help. I have a friend who took up this approach (after years of nothing) and now gets more pussy than anyone else I know. He doesn't ask for a fuck of course, he just waits until he's leaving a bar or something, just comes out with outrageous compliments (like the shoes thing mentioned earlier) and tries for a phone number and a goodbye kiss and maybe one time in three, gets both, later turning maybe one in three into a fuck or a short fling. 1 in 9 sounds like a bad return but when you try it 10-20 times a week, it all adds up :)

Personally, this isn't my style, since I became a born again single guy at the age of 40 I just make freinds with women and end up sleeping with the ones I really get on with. In my experience there is no such thing as a risk of becoming 'just friends', it's just striking that all important balance, women need to know that you don't JUST want to fuck them, the important word in that sentence is 'just', never leave them in any doubt that you do actually see them as a sexual being.