Ironic...I just read a woman's post in another forum asking "Can a man and a woman just be friends and hang out or will there ultimately be expectations? What do you think?"
Most of the women are saying "no, no, not possible, in your dreams.." Most of the men are saying "sure, absolutely, why not?"
the reality is that in certain cases friends, who have known each other a long time, may actually come to love each other and commit to a relationship (that includes sex)...
Most of the time it's called "settling" because they are old enough to figure out nothing else is gonna come along, and hey! they actually get along.
But, you probably don't wanna wait that long to have sex