Oversimplified generalization? Absolutely.

Will there always be exceptions? Absolutely.

Going back to the original post:

"Doc said:
It's human nature to want to have sex with women, therefore it is natural that you are going to surround yourself with people you find attractive. "

I'll extend that to say "it's human nature to surround yourself with people (of both sexes) you find attractive."

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"A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks, he becomes." - Mohandas Gandhi

I think you bring up a good point here. And I hate qualifying statements sometimes but I think some other people are going off and including rare examples and such. We are talking about "friends" not "aquaintances." So we aren't talking about people that you meet at PTA or church group and have that kind of affiliation with. We are talking about the ones that you meet and attempt to sustain a friendship beyond that. More importantly it was specified that these women not be unattractive. We can't go through every scenario and say what is true in individualized cases, but generally speaking i believe what locked said was true.

I've always had a few female friends, though most of them weren't the kind of women I'd have sex with. Now I have a lot more female friends, and most of them are the kind of women I'd have sex with. I love having them as just friends, but I have to admit I've had sex with a few of them. I have avoided having sex with the ones who appear to want more though, because it could destroy the friendship that exists between us.

The reason I have them as friends is because I was trying to improve my game. Okay, so I didn't succeed with a few, but a good percentage of them I could turn into friends. From them I learned more, and got better. I made more friends, and though I was not succeeding in many of my pick-ups I didn't write them off as worthless. I may not see many of the regularly, but I can meet up with 5 or 6 and go out sometimes.

Once you get to know some people you just like them, and while it isn't common there is a very small percentage who will simply like to be just friends. Of course, every once in a while one of them may see you as Mr. Rightnow. I think it's because hormones are tricky things, and they know I won't blab to anyone. In such cases telling would destroy the friendship not the sex.

Yeah, most guys will at least think about sex with their female friends, but I doubt they would act on it if they valued the friendship more. I think women have internalized so much of their social skill though they don't realize they generally have men around as friends to show they are socially pre-selected as well. It's a mark of status to other women that they are attractive to men, and it helps them feel validated socially.

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Artax
Devil's Advocate

"You're only as young as the women you feel."
"I am the Master of my unspoken words, and the Slave to those words that should have remained unsaid."

great point too!

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