friend with benefits

English

Noun

friend with benefits (plural friends with benefits)

1. (idiomatic, slang) A friend with whom one has a casual sexual relationship.
   • 2003, Alexander Hart, Time in Question

     “I’m just saying that usually when you have a friend who’s a girl, it’s not just that she’s your friend. Either you’ve known her a long time, or she’s a friend with benefits.

   • 2003, William Marsiglio, Making Males Mindful of Their Sexual and Procreative Identities: Using Self-Narratives in Field Settings, in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 35, No. 5

     Gender norms influence how young men orient themselves to sexual partners and girlfriends, and men’s procreative consciousness is sometimes affected by how they define a potential or actual sex partner (e.g., casual or serious girlfriend, “friend with benefits,” hookup).

   • 2004, Cynthia Henry, Discovering Normal

     “Can I be so bold as to ask if I can be a friend with benefits?”

   • 2005, Jennifer Klein, University of Pennsylvania

     The College Relationship is the hook up that turns into a “a person to hang out with,” more or less, a friend with benefits. This is a person whose company you sincerely enjoy, and you choose to spend extra time both hanging out and hooking up with, but there is no spoken commitment involved.

Related terms

• friendship with benefits

Synonyms

• fuck buddy (vulgar)
• fuckmate (vulgar)

Translations

friend with whom one has a casual sexual relationship

Catalan: amic amb drets (ca) m., amiga amb drets (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 性夥伴 (zh), 性伙伴 (zh), 性伴侶 (zh), 性伴侣 (zh) Finnish: seksikaveri (fi) French: copain de baise (fr) m., copine de baise (fr) f. German: Freund mit gewissen Vorzügen (de) m., Freundin mit gewissen Vorzügen (de) f., Sexfreund (de) m., Sexfreundin (de) f.

Italian: trombamico (it) m., trombamica (it) f., trombamici (it) pl. Japanese: セックスフレンド (ja) (sekkusu furendo), セフレ (ja) (sefure) Polish: przyjaciel z bonusem (pl) m., przyjaciel z bonusami (pl) m., przyjaciółka z bonusem (pl) f., przyjaciółka z bonusami (pl) f. Spanish: amigo con ventajas (es) m. Swedish: knullkompis (sv) c.

External links

• Friend with benefits on Wikipedia.Wikipedia