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Friends with benefits

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A friends with benefits relationship is a sexual arrangement between friends that involves recurrent physical intimacy, and its formation, outcomes and attributes vary from case to case. Such friendships may or may not develop into romantic relationships, depending on whether romantic feelings existed before, or emerged during, the arrangement; they are usually sustained over a longer period with some degree of commitment to the arrangement, in contrast to the more fleeting nature of casual sexual encounters. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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A friends with benefits relationship (FWB or FWBR) is a sexual arrangement between friends that involves recurrent physical intimacy and varies in its formation, outcomes, and attributes.
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