"Friends With Benefits" An Urban Myth or Modern Reality?

I went to see the Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis movie bearing the same name and hilarious as I found it, I couldn't help but get slightly annoyed at the outcome. If you haven't seen it but were planning on it and don't want to know the end of this incredibly predictable film, look away now.

They end up together. Massive. Fucking. Shock. I bet you didn't see that one coming. (And in a very cheesy, over-the-top way as well). Now as I said, I found the movie hilarious. For a start - who knew that Justin Timberlake could even remotely act?? Plus, Mila Kunis is possibly one of the most stunning women I have ever seen in my life. Asides from this though there were one-liners galore and I actually laughed so hard that by the end my face hurt. Good movie. BUT. Much as I enjoyed it, it kinda annoyed me how they ended up an item. Trust the all righteous American's to produce a movie called Friends With Benefits only to dash this whole concept after an hour and a half of film. It's almost like they can't bear the thought of people having sex for the sake of sex.

This movie makes out that having a friend with benefits couldn't POSSIBLY work. Surely you would end up in love with the other side? Right? Wrong. I don't want to 'out' any of my friends, so instead I will out them all - most of my friends have had this sort of arrangement at one point or another. Sorry America.

Whether or not it has always been planned, I would say a large majority of my friends have found themselves in bed, on a regular basis with someone who isn't their boy/girlfriend. In the youth of today there is nothing unusual about this.

Most of the time this is accidental. They sleep with a friend and it ends up happening most times they see each other after that. They have a one night stand and keep meeting up - not necessarily for dates per say. Or there's that one person that they seem to be drawn to on every. Single. Night out.

I personally don't see the problem with this. So long as both parties know what's going on, no one is getting hurt and everybody is happy. In more ways than one.

Not everybody has the time for a 'proper' relationship. But then they also don't want to be sleeping with someone different everytime. There's that sense of familiarity and being comfortable with someone, without the initial wining and dining. It's essentially a means to an end (that said in the nicest way possible).

Let's be honest as well, students have sex. (Sorry mum). Students also make new friends. So combining these two things is really just rather economical. Time saving even. We are simply taking the initiative. Isn't that what we are always told to do?

Most people these days haven't been in love with every person they have ever slept with. It's sort of a given. Even in America where they try to make out that abstinence is the answer (more on that later on), people have sex for the want/need of having sex.

So as I said, as much as I loved the movie I couldn't partly help but think that the initial concept of it was dashed. Friends who have sex don't always have to fall in love. Sometimes it doesn't even taint their relationship if they are level headed enough. Hollywood sometimes just need to take things at face value - friends really can just remain friends but with all the glorious benefits.