Few other questions have provoked debates as intense, family dinners as awkward, literature as lurid , or movies as memorable. Still, the question remains unanswered. Daily experience suggests that non-romantic friendships between males and females are not only possible, but common—men and women live, work, and play side-by-side, and generally seem to be able to avoid spontaneously sleeping together. In order to investigate the viability of truly platonic opposite-sex friendships—a topic that has been explored more on the silver screen than in the science lab—researchers brought 88 pairs of undergraduate opposite-sex friends into…a science lab. Privacy was paramount—for example, imagine the fallout if two friends learned that one—and only one—had unspoken romantic feelings for the other throughout their relationship. In order to ensure honest responses, the researchers not only followed standard protocols regarding anonymity and confidentiality, but also required both friends to agree—verbally, and in front of each other—to refrain from discussing the study, even after they had left the testing facility.

What body type does the opposite sex find attractive? It's a question that frustrates a great many young, heterosexual people and fuels their actions. In Western countries, stereotypes and media representations suggest that men idealize thinness in women while women prefer muscularity in men. Scientific studies broadly bear this out.

Read her responses below:. Bleske-Rechek: I have been interested in both same-sex and opposite-sex friendships, and close relationships of any kind, actually, since well before graduate school. In graduate school, my advisor David Buss and I began studying friendship with an evolutionary lens, and hence we began to consider the ways in which our evolved mating strategies might impinge on our experiences with opposite-sex friends. So many questions remain. First, the hypothesis above needs to be tested in multiple ways, so my conclusion is very tentative.

The Opposite Sex is a remake of the classic comedy The Women. Both films are based on Clare Boothe Luce 's original play. Kay is the last to find out among her circle of gossiping girlfriends. Kay travels to Reno to divorce from Steve who then marries Crystal, but when Kay finds out that Crystal isn't true to Steve she starts fighting to win her ex-husband back. Unlike the play and the film adaptation, The Opposite Sex includes musical numbers and features male actors who portray the husbands and boyfriends, whose characters were only referred to in the previous film and stage versions.