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Friends with Benefits

I just got back from seeing Friends with Benefits and it made me think about the topic of friends with benefits.  If you're looking for a review of the JT and Mila flick, I can sum it up easily:  It was marketed as a rom-com that promised to be different yet in the end wound up like all the rest.  SPOILER ALERT:  They fall in love!  Didn't make it any less entertaining but I still have to contend that the Vince Vaughn/Jen Aniston not-so-good movie "The Break Up" and my favorite chick flick "500 Days of Summer" still have the most realistic endings. But Friends with Benefits sort of aids my theory that opposite sex friends can't really keep it platonic.  I'm not going to launch back into that discussion, but if you want my thoughts on opposite sex friendships you can check it out in this entry: http://macsteruncensored.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-cant-we-be-friends-because-youre.html My main argument about opposite sex friendships is that there is