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Study Reveals Nearly Half of Male Friends Want to Sleep With Female Counterparts

Modern Wisdom · 19 Lessons From 1100 Episodes - #1100 · May 21, 2026
Study Reveals Nearly Half of Male Friends Want to Sleep With Female Counterparts
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19 Lessons From 1100 Episodes - #1100
"81% of women said yes. Only 58% of men said yes. So women were 3 times more likely than men to say that their friendship was purely platonic."
Williamson cited research from William Costello polling 527 heterosexual and bisexual people showing a dramatic perception gap in cross-sex friendships. Men are far more likely to find their female friends attractive and mistakenly believe the attraction is mutual, with male assessment of female interest matching his own desire rather than her actual feelings. The data suggests roughly half of male friends harbor romantic or sexual interest.
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