Friends with benefits?

[CapnAwesome]

What do you all think about the concept of ‘friends with benefits?’

Asked two of my offline Christian friends and they say it ‘cheapens your worth in a man’s eyes.’
My offline atheist friends say ‘nothing wrong with it, but if feelings emerge, it can ruin the friendships.’

Hmmm. I don’t want to get serious with anyone, but hanging out with someone in a ‘mutually beneficial’ arrangement, sounds…appealing.

Would be interested in your ideas about it, and if you have stories to share of your own. (good or bad)

Well morally of course I have no problem with it. I've never actually managed to have a friend with benefits type thing. Even though some relationships that I've had have been fairly casual, they've always been some form of relationship. I think these sort of things are always more complicated than they seem, unless people are wicked good at separating the emotional side of sex from the physical, which apparently I am not.

Personally I also don't really feel the need for something like this. I don't have a problem meeting women and I have totally awesome female friends. (In fact my closest platonic friend is a girl) So for me it's unnecessary to mix the two. This is all just personal preference though, like I said earlier, I don't have a moral problem with any consensual relationships.