It is in fact even possible for two persons who are just friends to have sex. There is nothing wrong with that, they can continue being just friends and never intending anything serious to come of it.
It's even possible for a man and a woman to be just friends, always talking about sex (and almost nothing else) and there not being a single bit of sexual tension.
However, what I've found is almost impossible, is for a man and a woman (both single and/or young) to be alone in a dark room for any length of time to, say, watch a movie, and nothing physical happening. At the very least there will be cuddling.
But that has nothing to do with being just friends or not.
After all, friendship is just a label, if both parties agree to call their relationship a friendship, then it is a friendship no matter what actually goes on and what anyone else might think.
However, what I've found is almost impossible, is for a man and a woman (both single and/or young) to be alone in a dark room for any length of time to, say, watch a movie, and nothing physical happening. At the very least there will be cuddling.
I've been in this situation without anything physical happening. Seems like the default state.
Probably just that I'm never alone with girls who don't want anything physical from me (and me from them). Seems more fun to have a movienight (or whatever) with a bunch of people, rather than just two friends.
This fact probably skews that part of my experience.
Another possibility is we define "something physical" differently - I think of [light] cuddling as something physical, from what I've heard a lot of people don't.
Ladder theory is a ridiculous construct for people desperately trying to understand love from a purely intellectual point of view. It strikes me as one of those things that's correct enough to make it look like they have something; but at the same time, its reductionistic viewpoint causes you to close yourself off from wonderful friendships that end up developing into something more. And you won't realize you're doing this until it's happened several times...if you ever introspect enough to realize that.
That is the problem with something like this: it isn't intellectually rigorous, it just has the facade. The cost of simply holding the belief is higher than what you get out of it. It is not a truism, it's some kid writing on his blog.
(Sorry if I seem acidic, but there's very little critical discussion of the implications of ladder theory for one's belief system.)
It is in fact even possible for two persons who are just friends to have sex. There is nothing wrong with that, they can continue being just friends and never intending anything serious to come of it.
It's even possible for a man and a woman to be just friends, always talking about sex (and almost nothing else) and there not being a single bit of sexual tension.
However, what I've found is almost impossible, is for a man and a woman (both single and/or young) to be alone in a dark room for any length of time to, say, watch a movie, and nothing physical happening. At the very least there will be cuddling.
But that has nothing to do with being just friends or not.
After all, friendship is just a label, if both parties agree to call their relationship a friendship, then it is a friendship no matter what actually goes on and what anyone else might think.