yes, i always try to stick up for people who are shy or quiet/introvert when other people talk bad about them

I'd do more than just give advice. If I were wealthy enough, and he wanted it, I would pay for the services of a decent escort.

Yes. I would almost see it as a karmic obligation to help my LS friend. I would probably try to integrate him into my wife's/girlfriend's single social circle to whatever extent I could.

If it was someone I didn't know well on the other hand I don't know how much I should interfere.

Being LS myself, I can usually spot a fellow love-shy guy like a great white shark spots a wounded seal and I think there is another (much younger) love-shy guy in my medical school class. If my intuition is correct based on what I've observed, I think he may have a oneitis in the class. If I knew him better, I've often questioned if I would/should play the big-brother role and intervene on his behalf.

Of course I would, if it were possible. The problem is that some men at certain young ages are far too love-shy to deal with any girl, particularly nice-looking ones.

I could have probably had a girlfriend at 19. She was a close friend of the girl my friend was dating, but I was as love-shy as a man can get and literally could not handle the idea of having a girlfriend way back then. It would have been a great since she was Mormon and a very nice girl, probably still a virgin like I was, but it wasn't in the cards for me at the time.

A few years later would have made all difference in the world, since I had toughened up quite a bit from life experiences, but it was too late by then. I still think about her from time to time. Missed opportunities in life are a common theme with we love-shys.