Mischief Maker wrote:

Zseni! wrote:

I also think men and women should be able to get along like this - close, but not fucking - however our freakishly oversexualized culture allows for less and less nonsexual intimacy every year.

If you ever come across a guy who is purely a platonic friend with an attractive woman, there are 2 explanations:

He wants to fuck her and is too chicken to hit on her, so he insists their relationship is "not like that!" to protect his ego.

OR

He hit on her, maybe dated a while, but made a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in the friend zone.

Guys who don't want to fuck attractive women were bred into extinction millennia ago.

Hypersexualized culture? No, oppressive, sexually dysfunctional culture in which our latent sexuality squeezes through the cracks through advertising and popular entertainment.