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What's Love Got to Do with It? Exploring the Impact of Maintenance Rules, Love Attitudes, and Network Support on Friends with Benefits Relationships
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Hughes, Mikayla; Morrison, Kelly; Asada, Kelli Jean K. – Western Journal of Communications, 2005
Friends with benefits relationships (FWBRs) are defined as relationships between cross-sex friends in which the friends engage in sexual activity but do not define their relationship as romantic. Relationship scholars have only recently begun to examine these relationships, despite their mention in the popular media (e.g., HBO's 'Sex in the City,'…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Sexuality, Interpersonal Communication, Friendship