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Are highly intimate platonic/non sexual relationships possible? Obviously I'm excluded familial and pseudo familial relationships here. Literature that explores this?

>> No.20159991

>>>/adv/

>> No.20160024

>>20159990
Between men or between women -- yes obviously. But between a man and a woman? Probably, for very self-controlled people. But I doubt anyone has every actually done it successfully. Even if you're very self-controlled, why would you create the situation where it's possible you'll slip?
It's like that mini-story in Don Quixote, where the guy convinces his friend to court his wife in order to test her loyalty. The friend does so, but he ends up actually falling for her, and the two make love. So in the end the first guy loses both a friend and a wife. The moral of the story is don't be stupid and put yourself in these situations where things like that can happen.

>> No.20160115

>>20159990
>Literature that explores platonic love?
Uh, Plato, duh-duh.
Symposion and Phaidros.

>> No.20160448
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>>20160024
The intimacy of friendshipdoes not always leadto sexual intimacy, friendship doesn't need to become sexual with members of the opposite sex
t. has friends who are women

>> No.20160612

>>20160448
Easier said than done pal

Anytime in my life I've gotten a female friend they all eventually end up coming onto me, whether I want them to or not.
I had a lesbian friend in HS, she came on to me.
I had a work friend for 3+ years, after we stopped working together and I broke up with my gf she came onto me (and stopped talking to me once I rebuffed her as kindly as possible lol)

The point is while it's theoretically possible to have this type of relationship, just because you feel like its sustainable doesn't mean your female friend will also.

>> No.20160630

>>20160448
>if you have gf, female friends will probably find you more attractive and come onto you
>if you don't have gf, probably filling a beta/simp role with female friends, probably not happy internally unless genuine asexual
seems very rare either way

>> No.20160868

>>20160024
>Between men or between women -- yes obviously. But between a man and a woman? Probably, for very self-controlled people. But I doubt anyone has every actually done it successfully. Even if you're very self-controlled, why would you create the situation where it's possible you'll slip?
What is your relationship to your mom and sisters?

>> No.20160873
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20160873

>>20159990
Simps have platonic relations with their goddesses

>> No.20160875

>>20159990
yes. I've had them, but then again, I'm asexual. I don't know if that is a disqualifier.

>> No.20160888

>>20159990
>Obviously I'm excluded familial and pseudo familial relationships here.
Why are you excluding them from platonic relationships? Wanna fuck them? Huh? Sicko.

>> No.20161062

>>20160875
w-what's it like

>> No.20161064

>>20160888
fun fact, /r9k/ regularly has threads where anons talk about trying to fuck their moms. for some reason it's become a thing with zoomers

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>>20160630
Have you ever had a friend who was a girl?
>>20160612
These are just your personal experiences, that does not mean you should make a universal assumption about half of the population based upon them.

>> No.20161205

just befriend ugly people

>> No.20161228

>>20160875
Same, but not so much asexual as just that I gave up on dating.

>> No.20161254

>>20160868
read the OP you fucking retard