Well, this is surprising.
If you want to promote your regular buddy into a
fuck buddy but you're worried that crossing the line might ruin your
friendship forever, a brand new study might give you a little
encouragement.
New research from Purdue
University and Syracuse University found that about 70 percent of people
in friends-with-benefits relationships managed to salvage some sort of
relationship when they stopped hooking up. Yes, there are actual
academic studies on friends with benefits or FWBs — I found that out
firsthand at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality's annual sex research conference over the weekend in Omaha, Nebraska.
There, Purdue's Justin Lehmiller, Ph.D.,
presented the talk awesomely titled, "Can Friends Who Have Sex Stay
Friends?" His team looked at what happened to nearly 200 FWBs who
completed two online surveys about 11 months apart, and found that 26
percent stayed FWBs, 28 percent went back to being regular, non-sexing
friends, and 15 percent became real romantic couples. As for the other
31 percent, they ceased to have any relationship at all.So if you want your FWB to become your boyfriend, chances are, he won't. But if you just want a hibernation hookup to hunker down with this winter, and one of your guy friends is a top contender, there's a good chance that screwing him won't screw your friendship too.
One of the best ways to make it out of a FWB situation and still have some sort of relationship, according to the study? Communicate about the rules of the FWB upfront — do you both have the same expectations? Will other FWBs be in the mix? Are you both into blindfolds? Discuss among yourselves.
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