friendships between men and women. Now there is this longstanding cultural agreement that

real friendship between men and women cannot exist because of the sexual tension between

the sexes. This is a view that actually comes from an earlier ere when men and women's roles

were far more restricted and the only opportunity for them to meet was for romantic purposes.

Under those circumstances of course it was very very difficult for men and women to develop

real friendships based on their interests because women were stuck at home tending the

babies and tending the household while men were out working. However, today's society

is very different from this and there's plenty of opportunity for men and women to come together

based on mutual interests, maybe in sports, maybe in arts, maybe in politics, maybe as

a friend or a co-worker from your workplace or somebody that you met at school. There's

no such limitation anymore about the roles of men and women. So there is far more opportunity

for men and women to get together and share interests and develop genuine friendships.

There will always be the possibility of sexual tension between any two people who might be

sexually attracted to each other. But it need not cause an issue case of real friendship

between men and women.