Can men & women remain "JUST FRIENDS"? Ladder Theory attempts to explain differences in how heterosexual men and women evaluate potential opposite-sex sexual partners and friends. It stresses that men are more ready to have sex with female friends than the reverse. Based on this notion, a man being friends with a woman lowers the chances that he can have sex with her which, in turn, makes the odds of a successful friendship highly unlikely. The dichotomy of the men and women having different ladder schemas stems from the fact that when a man values a woman as a person to a great extent, even as a friend, it becomes inevitable that he also wants to have sex with her. In contrast, a woman can very much value a man as a person and a friend, but it is entirely possible for her to not want him in a sexual way. Men cannot understand how they can be such good friends with a woman and she would not want to have sex with him, while likewise women cannot understand why if a friendship is so strong and good that it has to involve sex. Ladder Theory illustrates the difficulties of this social dynamic that has come about as a result of this incompatibility with reasoning between the sexes.
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