The article examines the complexities of mixing friendship and sexual attraction, especially through concepts like Friends with Benefits (FWB) and sugaring. It highlights the idea that while adding sex can enhance the quality of friendships, it may also jeopardize their stability. The discussion includes perspectives indicating that heterosexual men and women might find it challenging to maintain platonic friendships due to underlying sexual attraction, positing that intimacy and friendship can both enhance and threaten relationship longevity.
When friends feel that their relationship is valuable, they naturally tend to preserve and improve upon it.
Adding sex to friendship opens the door to greater relationship quality, as well as greater risk to its continuation.
A sexual aspect in heterosexual cross-gender friendships is generally inevitable.
The limit of about four close friends in older adults highlights the complexity of maintaining friendship.
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