Men Are More Attracted to Female Friends Than Women Are to Guy Friends: Have You Ever Been Attracted to a Friend?
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2012/05/07 19:36:27
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It's the age-old question: Can a man and a woman just be friends? A new study suggests that they can't -- at least as far as the guy is concerned. Men are more sexually interested in their female friends than their female friends are in them, LiveScience reports.
Not only are guys more likely to pine for their platonic female pals, but they're also more likely than gals to think their friends are romantically interested in them, too, even if they aren't. "Men over-infer women's sexual interest in a variety of contexts, and I definitely see that extending into the domain of cross-sex friendships as well," study researcher April Bleske-Rechek, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, told LiveScience.
However, being attracted to your BFF isn't always such pleasant experience (as many of us have learned the hard way). Study participants were much more likely to list attraction as a "cost" rather than a benefit of their opposite-sex friendship (though men were less likely to see it this way than women).
What do you think? Is being attracted to your friend a recipe for disaster? Or could it possibly lead to love?
However, being attracted to your BFF isn't always such pleasant experience (as many of us have learned the hard way). Study participants were much more likely to list attraction as a "cost" rather than a benefit of their opposite-sex friendship (though men were less likely to see it this way than women).
What do you think? Is being attracted to your friend a recipe for disaster? Or could it possibly lead to love?
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Yankee Traveler 2012/05/07 20:55:23
So if your a girl and you want to be friends with a guy, be a real friend. Hook him up with one of your friends. You have the connections and a recommendation from you is worth gold and thats what friends do. What kind of friend ignores their friend's suffering?
Well men as a rule can fall in love easily as for them it is more the physical satiation rather than the mental attitude/make up that women tend to have in relationships. So if you are pretty or with high appeal or ju...
Well men as a rule can fall in love easily as for them it is more the physical satiation rather than the mental attitude/make up that women tend to have in relationships. So if you are pretty or with high appeal or just you can be assured mishaps like the above are not uncommon. I openly got proposed to by a 60 year old with 60 faces gaping at the whole thing for just befriending the chap on the bus so grown used to it and have learnt to check the warning signs and make a run for it when I see it starting or at least till their amorous affections begin to cool down. Its usually a phase, with a 20-30 cycle but if it goes on beyond that and runs into years, then you know its not a phase but a phenomenon and then think about what next (friendly advice) and in my opinion move your place of stay (for a short while till it dies down) to avoid misunderstandings or choose to go ahead if both are single. Be very observant as Kerosene and Fire do always create flames although either don't mean for it to happen.
The words most guys hate to hear a girl say! "We are just friends"
Of course - there are always exceptions. And today, as an older male, I do have females who are friends, and who I am not attracted to. But most of them are the wives of my buds.
EDIT: I find this especially ironic because I went to the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.
physical attraction for me only ever goes away when i no longer like them personally, so if i am already physically attracted to them before becoming friends then it turns into a full blown crush but i have never been friends with someone then suddenly becoming physically attracted to them.
YOUR GUY AND HIS SO CALLED "FRIEND"
It is really no surprise. Also that girl is hot.
I have had guy friends who were attracted to me, and I find it both flattering, and a little uncomfortable. I don't want some guy to pine for me when I will only ever see them as a friend.
But I've been with my boyfriend for years, and we started out good friends. He was even in a relationship when we met.
anyway, why does the picture have to show two different races? of course a black boy befriending some hispanic bitch isn't after her friendship.