"The most basic, necessary and understandable experience of relationship. Friends are the people who not only love and support you; they are the people who do not betray you. Honoring the personal freedom of all friends needs to be included as a factor in friendship, so that the acts of choice or preference we all make as a matter of being alive are not seen as betrayals. Friends are often not overtly sexual, but can be sexual on a variety of levels, from sharing or exploring sexual values, to fully expressed sexual experiences. There are cultural taboos on sex with friends, though who would you rather be in bed with? Your enemies?"

- from Options to Romance (Eric Frances)