friends with benefits

It’s easy to note the generational differences between students of today and their parents; going to college is harder, the job market is less than desirable and the prevalence of technology is inescapable. But we also differ from our parents in other ways.

I can still remember the day I discovered what sex was. I was sitting on my living room floor, cradling my new Cabbage Patch Kid (remember those?), when suddenly I looked up at my mother and asked, “Mommy, where do babies come from?”

There is a stereotype that guys and girls can’t be just friends. It’s impossible to be best friends without one being in love with the other – or gay. But I disagree with this. There is indeed a happy medium: Best Friends with Awkward Sexual Tension.