Friends with Benefits: Difference between revisions

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''Best friend with benefits"''|'''[[Alanis Morissette]]''', "Head Over Feet"}}

 

* The titular Fire and her childhood friend Archer from Kristin Cashore's ''[[Graceling|Fire]]''.

* Spoofed in parody self-help book ''Oh the Humanity'', in which ''all'' of the [[Unreliable Narrator]]'s relationships like this supposedly end with the sexual component curtailed for fear of "damaging the friendship". The actual phrases they use?

 

 

== Music ==

* The Sparks' "All You Ever Think About Is Sex":

to love each other much'' }}

* ''Get Mine Get Yours'' by [[Christina Aguilera]] is about a relationship like this.

* In The Dark by [[Jojo]] is about this type of situation.

** Jojo is weary of growing feelings for her bed buddy though.

* "Urgent" by Foreigner. The speaker seems to want a [[Relationship Upgrade]], even though he tells himself he just wants sex.

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* Played for a gag in one ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' strip:

'''Pig:''' It's good to have affordable medical insurance. }}

 

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Noah [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-03-31 tells Elliot] that he and Melissa "provide comfort and pleasure to each other" while Melissa is still in love with [[Straight Gay|Justin]].

** Elliot and Nanase's early relationship [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-05-04 wasn't exactly romantic.]

'''Nanase:''' No. }}