Attraction to a close female 'friend'

[Mish]

By the way, I believe this poll is biased. There are 4 outcomes suggesting that the only reason men and women are friends is because they want to get laid and only one outcome that doesn't suggest this. However that one outcome suggests that a person is some kind of a slut and there's inherently something wrong with them. If this poll contained more realistic choices that reflected the reality of friendship between men and women without ulterior motives (and there are many examples of these that most of us engage in everyday at work, at uni, socially) you would see a much more even and less biased spread of responses.

[searock]

By the way, I believe this poll is biased. There are 4 outcomes suggesting that the only reason men and women are friends is because they want to get laid and only one outcome that doesn't suggest this. However that one outcome suggests that a person is some kind of a slut and there's inherently something wrong with them. If this poll contained more realistic choices that reflected the reality of friendship between men and women without ulterior motives (and there are many examples of these that most of us engage in everyday at work, at uni, socially) you would see a much more even and less biased spread of responses.

Agreed. I would've asked something like this:

"Guys, are you attracted to your female close friend?
a) Not at all, she's more like a sister to me;
b) Yes, but that's not the reason we're close friends;
c) Yes, it's the only reason I'm friends with her;
d) I don't have female close friends"

And I would've specified that both answers c and d imply that who picks them does not, in fact, have a female close friend, just a crush at most. Real friends aren't such only because they're attracted to each other.