Dating & Relating: Friends with Benefits

They are "Eros" lovers who are passionate lovers and "Ludas" or "Ludic" lovers, which are game-playing lovers.

They often fall head over heels at the first sight of a potential relationship. This type of lover is also known to commit to other casual sex relationships. They are looking for the feeling of conquest and typically enter a relationship or hook-up with very little or no intentions of establishing any kind of commitment. They, in most cases, will have more than one sexually active partner at a given time. They also find it very hard to picture a relationship getting serious.

Many casual relationships establish guidelines or a set of rules. The two participants in the relationship will reach an agreement about what each expects from the relationship.

Another major concern is that one of the partners will develop romantic feelings for the other. Robert Sternberg 's triangular theory of love offers the type of flexibility that may be suited in helping this type of relationship become successful. Casual relationships, being a mix between a friendship and a non-romantic sexual relationship, result in the partners facing many challenges in maintaining a working relationship.

Based on the exchange theory , Hughes witnessed an individual dependency on either partner as the exchange of resources, knowledge, rewards, and costs of items, becomes more and more prominent. This may be a one-way street and one partner may not feel this way. The dependent partner is more submissive to their dominant partner as they do not want the relationship to end. They normally control when they meet up, when they have sex, and when they do things together.

Many students share the same concerns when it came to beginning a casual relationship with a person who was already their friend. Bisson and Levine found that there were four main worries. Hughes's study also revealed the four main categories of why partners participating in a casual relationship did not feel the need to tell their same sex friends about the relationship. The first category was that the partners did not feel that their same sex friends needed to know this information. Many students said that they would feel ashamed or didn't want to be judged by their same sex friends. Hughes's study suggests that there were five main motivations to why college students wanted to be in a casual relationship.

A traditional stereotype of heterosexual casual relationships in college is that the men initiate the sexual activity. This is not true all the time, especially in college students. College and university campuses are often characterised by the amount of drinking or partying that goes on there. The environment that students are placed in often plays a role in whether or not they feel pressured into finding a casual relationship. The colleges and universities known for a larger alcohol consumption by their students seem to also have a larger number of students participating in casual relationships.

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