Friends with Benefits:: A Precarious Negotiation

College Sex - Philosophy for Everyone: Philosophers with Benefits

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 91-102

  Levine, Timothy R ^a   Mongeau, Paul A ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Casual sex, distinction between romantic sex and casual sex differentiating relationships; Cross sex friends with benefits relationships commoner than same sex friends; Differentiating between friends and romantic partners something difficult to put into words; Distinction between friendship and romantic relationships based only on sexual behaviors; Friends with benefits a precarious negotiation; Friends with benefits relationships and new types of relationship; Friends with benefits relationships, limited on college campuses; Key difference between friends and lovers sexual desire and interaction; Labelling "friends with benefits" being relatively new; Sexual life on college campuses dominated by the hook up

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885553065     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324488.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

References (4)

1. Kathleen A. Bogle, Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus (New York: New York University Press, 2008)
2. Melissa A. Bisson and Timothy R. Levine, "Negotiating a Friends with Benefits Relationship," Archives of Sexual Behavior 38: 66-73.
3. Paul A. Mongeau, J. Williams, C. Shaw, K. Knight, and A. Ramirez, Jr., "Definitions and Diversity of Friends with Benefits Relationships: A Two-Wave, Cross- Region, Study," unpublished manuscript (under review).
4. Leslie A. Baxter and William W. Wilmot, "Taboo Topics in Close Relationships," Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 2: 253-69.