Yes, just friends. If I want a lover I will say to her.
"Close friendship between members of the same sex, are also suspect"
And this, my Hacker news friends, is what we call a dirty, unsatisfied and repressed mind.
This reminds me to catholic priests in my childhood, if it is taboo for you to have sex you can start obsessing about sex, thinking too much of sex, seeing it everywhere, even inventing it when there is none. The problem is not in the people, the problem is in you.
Here in Spain we hug our friends, and we kiss our other sex friends a lot. In Morocco two male friends will hold hands together. It is part of the culture.
then you have our wonderful work place rules which have to go to such extents to keep people away from each other so as not to offend anyone and bring on a lawsuit.
I have worked at places where they asked people not to kiss their spouse goodbye when being dropped off and such. Really. We had two married couples working at the same place and both were told no open signs of affection were permitted. All because it could offend someone else.
The worst was the no flowers office. Glad I was only there six months. Yeah, no flowers, no cards. The only thing allowed were pictures of kids or family photos. Bizarre.
Then you get into those places where if you do go to lunch with someone of the opposite sex people love to have fun with innuendos.
"Close friendship between members of the same sex, are also suspect"
And this, my Hacker news friends, is what we call a dirty, unsatisfied and repressed mind.
This reminds me to catholic priests in my childhood, if it is taboo for you to have sex you can start obsessing about sex, thinking too much of sex, seeing it everywhere, even inventing it when there is none. The problem is not in the people, the problem is in you.
Here in Spain we hug our friends, and we kiss our other sex friends a lot. In Morocco two male friends will hold hands together. It is part of the culture.