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Can Men & Women Be Platonic Friends? Sure, If One is Gay and the Other is Straight...

"Platonic friendship works best between members of the opposite sex when at least one of them is gay..." That's what my married male friend told me a few years ago after one of my "platonic" male friends started acting crazy.  Maybe there is some truth in the statement, though?  Historically, I have maintained that not only were co-ed platonic friendships possible, but were actually normative but I've changed my mind.  Pheromones is a helluva drug.   Maybe its possible, but not so much.  Sure, there are times when two friends are low key feeling each other and end up together like the movie  Brown Sugar (rare unicorn moments) .   However, it is more likely that two friends have some weird love story playing out based on mutual attraction and basic smashing (where one person doesn't want much else) like in the video  Half Crazy  by Musiq, where one person is lying about just being friends like in "Just a Friend" by Biz Markie, or where two peo...