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Friends With Benefits is a 2011 Romantic Comedy directed by Will Gluck and starring Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis and Woody Harrelson. Jamie Rellis (Kunis) is a headhunter ("I prefer corporate recruiter") who lures Dylan Harper (Timberlake), a website art director, to New York to interview for GQ. He takes the job and the pair become close ...
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Alice and Bob enjoy getting together for sex. Wild, rampant, unrestrained bed-shaking, so-loud -it-annoys-the-neighbors Hollywood Sex. With this much enthusiasm going on, you can just tell that these two are perfect soulmates, bonded for life.
Except—they aren't.
As it turns out, their intense attraction for each other ends outside of the bedroom. Maybe their personalities clash, or neither of them wants a long-term relationship. When they're not doing the horizontal hula, they could be Just Friends, quietly indifferent, or even argumentative. If they're on good terms, they might share relationship advice to help each other find true love.
But until that happens, they'll get together to knock boots every Saturday. Just for the fun of it. It is likely, but far from necessary, that they are both Ethical Sluts.
Some draw a distinction between "Friends with Benefits" and "Fuck Buddies". In this view, "Fuck Buddies" are couplings with no emotional relationship, but simply good great sex. "Friends with Benefits", by contrast, provide sex and friendship, but not as much emotional intimacy as a full-blown romance.
In fiction, such relationships are a convenient starting point for drama and Angst. The setup isn't usually sustainable, as one or the other eventually decide they want a real relationship. This results in either a Relationship Upgrade or a breakup.
•The (very explicit) Yuri manga Maka-Maka is about two women who insist they're just this - though it's blatantly obvious to the reader that they're way beyond just friends.
•The aptly-named Sexfriend Hentai.
•Akkan Baby focuses on two extremely naive Friends with Benefits who had zero idea of the potential consequences of what they were doing. Pregnancy ensues.
•Japan and Greece from Axis Powers Hetalia, who wind up having sex mainly because Japan ranked last place in a sex frequency poll and Greece (in first place on the same poll) decides to teach him how to enjoy doing it more. Though there are hints that Greece harbors genuine romantic feelings for his friend and it hasn't escaped shippers' attention that Japan doesn't seem to be the kind of person who'd sleep with someone on a whim alone.
•In the one-volume manga version of Heat Guy J Clair has a Hot Scientist around that is implied to be this.
•In Virgin Love, Kaoru and Daigo have what is supposed to be an anonymous one night stand, but then meet again at work. Kaoru doesn't want a relationship but thinks the sex is too good to give up so he and Daigo become sex friends instead. Daigo quickly falls for Kaoru.
•Shortly after One More Day, Spider-Man tried having a Friends with Benefits relationship with the Black Cat. It didn't last long.
•This trope is the best definition of the relationship between Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy in Harley's New 52 comic, though they've also been written as being in an open-relationship. They are not dating but it is more than implied that their current relationship is sexual. Harley even has a dream where she married Bruce Wayne .and Ivy was invited to the honeymoon. This trope applies to pretty much every work where Harley and Ivy appear together, to the point where it would be considered out of character if it didn't happen.
•Deconstructed in the iCarly fan fic iNever Knew and its sequel, iNever Knew This Would Be So Hard. While Freddie wants to be boyfriend and girlfriend, Carly wants to be friends with benefits, which they attempt, albeit by experimenting sexually but not sleeping together again. It doesn't go too well.
•More accurately, Carly is scared of a Relationship Upgrade because she's used to her and her brother wrecking their relationships and never speaking to the other person after they break up, so feels if they keep it casual, she can avoid hurting Freddie whilst still giving him what she believes he wants most. Freddie gets concerned that because Carly doesn't want to tell anyone, and that they haven't slept together again, that Carly thinks it's a mistake. It's also something of a deconstruction of the Girl of the Week format and how a real person would be affected by seeing and being part of relationships which seem to only last one night, days or barely weeks.
•This is the relationship between Jia-Chien and her ex-boyfriend in Eat Drink Man Woman. They get together regularly to chat and to knock heels, but otherwise prefer to see other people.
•Also Tomas and Sabina in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
•In Jackie Brown, Louis and Melanie have this sort of relationship. However, Melanie is a bit of slut, although she seems to like Louis- he's an old friend whom she hasn't seen in a long time. This all goes to shit when Louis shoots her for trying to take the half million for herself, plus being overly annoying, even for her.
•In Vanilla Sky, the main character has a "F*** Buddy" relationship with a model. The "buddy" in question takes things a little more seriously and when she finds out the true nature of the relationship, it doesn't end well.
•In the comedy No Strings Attached, Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman star as a pair of these. You can really tell because (a) They're both getting redressed on the movie poster and (b) It actually says on the poster "Friendship has its benefits".
•Similarly, Friends With Benefits feature Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake as another such pair. They have this setup because they're too busy to go dating. Complications arise when Romance Ensues.
•French Sci Fi novel Malevil features Emmanuel and Birgitta. Emmanuel is a rancher and she was a German girl who would spend time in town and work for his uncle. After the uncle's death, she turns her eye on Emmanuel and makes their relationship very clear: recreational sex and nothing more. They have a happy affair for a while before she leaves for home and writes to announce her marriage. Emmanuel takes it harder then he should have, and has to remind himself of what their relationship was.
•The titular Fire and her childhood friend Archer from Kristin Cashore's Fire.
•Against the Wall: Abby wants her and Brody to stay as Friends with Benefits. He wants a Relationship Upgrade. They negotiate an in-between stage.
•The Big Bang Theory: Discussed.
•Boston Legal: Brad and Denise end up in this trope towards the end of season 2. Possibly lampshaded with Denise repeatedly claiming they are "only friends... with benefits."
•But the Friends With Benefits does lead to the two eventually getting married and having a kid.
•Boy Meets World: At one point after Shawn and Angela break up they try to have no strings attached sex but Shawn gets too emotional about it and Angela calls it off before they can even get past the makeout foreplay.
•Community: This becomes the eventual arrangement between Jeff and Britta.
•The Sparks' "All You Ever Think About Is Sex":
•Get Mine Get Yours by Christina Aguilera is about a relationship like this.
•In The Dark by Jojo is about this type of situation.
•Jojo is weary of growing feelings for her bed buddy though.
•Played for a gag in one Pearls Before Swine strip:
•Discussed in a Luann strip (seen here) where Gunther's date asks him if he's this way with Luann. Gunther is a little Late to the Punchline.
•The female Shepard's relationship with Garrus in Mass Effect 2 at the beginning fits this to a T. There is neither any romantic attraction between them at first: Shepard just offers to sleep with Garrus in the middle of a conversation and Garrus replies "Well, why the hell not?". The dialogue that ensues is initially all about reconciling the fact that it's an Interspecies Romance but the focus rapidly and subtly shifts to Garrus revealing how lost and lonely he really is, how he's filled to the brim with self-doubt and how Shepard is the only person in the galaxy who can give him even a moment's solace.
•Morrigan and Zevran both view a relationship with the Warden in Dragon Age to be this at first, though in both cases it evolves into something deeper if you pursue it.
•One option with Isabela in Dragon Age II is to not mention love at all and just keep on having sex.
•If neither of them is romanced, Isabela and Fenris seem to develop this kind of relationship.
•This pretty much sums up the relationship between Telia and the Wanderer in Visions and Voices, at least in the Backstory. Their in-game relationship follows the standard Belligerent Sexual Tension pattern, except for the minor detail that they're already screwing like rabbits before love and romance even become an issue.
•Combined with A Worldwide Punomenon in the Portal 2 achievements. There's an achievement called "Friends List With Benefits" for hugging three people on your Steam friends list. Although hugging is the closest thing ATLAS and P-Body get to romance or sex, at one point GLaDOS asks the bots if they know what could happen as a result of hugging...and makes it sound for a moment like it could result in STDs.
Dec 18, 2017 · TV Series. Friends with Benefits. A 2011 series on NBC that lasted 13 episodes. The premise is about a group of friends living in Chicago. Among them are the two leads, Ben and Sara, who are friends, who are Friends with Benefits while just staying friends. They also have the supporting cast of Riley, a bartender who likes to date a lot of men ...
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