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Can Men And Women Be Friends? Part 1 by charllyen: 9:35am On Jun 19, 2012
There is no reason for a man to be interested in a woman (and for a women to be interested in a man) other than sex. Biologically and evolutionarily speaking, copulation is the only reason why there are two sexes around, and it is fundamentally the only thing for which the members of the two sexes are drawn to each other.

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Propagation of genes is why we are. Whatever else we think life is about is but our delusions and a part of the grand scheme of Nature the cold bitch. Not that these delusions are bad (for what choice do we have?), but to the best of human understanding that's what life is.

Man and woman can't be friends in true sense of the word. Meaning, they can't have a pure friendship. The forces governing same-sex friendships and those governing cross-sex friendships are significantly different. Think about it. To give some hint of the difference in the dynamics: one doesn't use the same criteria for evaluating people of both genders while choosing friends. The degree of influence one's male and female company exert on one (other things being the same) is not the same. And that evidences plentiful role sexuality plays in friendships involving opposite sexes. One is influenced and affected by a person of the opposite sex far more easily and deeply then by a person of the same sex.

Sexuality makes one biased towards the person of the opposite sex in every situation which has a possibility of it leading up to sex (which is almost always), no matter how remote the odds. And no, one doesn't always have to have a conscious intention of sex while exercising the bias. It just happens that way, apparently because such behavior is hardwired in our biology. This purported end of the bias, sex, would not be the goal of pure friendship. This I say because friendship is a human concept serving human goals, as opposed to Nature's goals which is sex. For a relationship to qualify as friendship the minimum condition is that it must be founded on some social purpose; the purpose that originates from one's human nature as opposed to the animal nature. Since the sexuality-encouraged gender bias is always present in a man-woman friendship, such friendship is always more or less impure, and as a consequence there are complications roughly proportional to impurity in friendship. Come back today for the part2 in this tread.

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