Dealbreaker: No Male “Friends” for Wife, Girlfriend
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2023-11-03

Most women are looking for meaningful sex. Most men – even platonic male “friends” - are looking for casual, throwaway sex. The result: Celibacy. There has been a decline of more than 30% in sexual frequency and in the number of partners over the past 40 years. 

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LITERATURE

Mons Bendixen (2014) Evidence of Systematic Bias in Sexual Over- and Underperception of Naturally Occurring Events: A Direct Replication of Haselton (2003) in a More Gender-Equal Culture. Evolutionary Psychology, 12(5), 1004-1021.

The Perceptions of Verbal and Nonverbal Flirting Cues in Cross-Sex Interactions, Human Communication. A Publication of the Pacific and Asian Communication, Association. Vol. 12, No. 4, pp.371-381.

Bleske-Rechek, A., Somers, E., Micke, C., Erickson, L., Matteson, L., Stocco, C., Schumacher, B., & Ritchie, L. (2012). Benefit or burden? Attraction in cross-sex friendship. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 29(5), 569-596. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407512443611

Men and Women Can't Be "Just Friends" By Adrian F. Ward, Scientific American, October 23, 2012

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