Sex with friends: what are the downsides?

Bad sex is the end of a good friendship

It would be sad if your friend turned out to be not that great in bed

The friendship turns into a friend zone

The friendship ends at exactly the moment you both decide to sleep together!

If anything goes wrong, you lose both a friend and great sex in one go.

There's no knowing how it will affect the relationship later on

It's something like Russian roulette, and I wouldn't want to lose friends 😅

It's scary to put the relationship through that kind of test 🥲

Sex will end sooner or later anyway, and I don't want the friendship to end along with it

What, aren't there enough other people? Why spoil the established fabric of the relationship and take the risk

And who would I talk it over with afterwards...

For some reason friends don't turn me on, it's like with a brother (IMHO)

Not the right stage of closeness for the "friends" category 😂

For me, friendship is about emotional intimacy, not physical

You'd have to talk through way too much, gently, so that everyone is OK afterwards. Too much hassle

Maybe there'll be some tension afterwards?

Some intimate details won't let you interact the same way as before

Don't shit where you eat

That's weird, don't do that 💀

It's hard to see them with other people afterwards

It's hard to manage the distance afterwards, and the expectations too

If there was sex, we're not friends anymore

Someone might fall in love, and that's the end of the friendship

For me, after sex it's no longer friendship; something very subtle and fragile changes somewhere

The relationship will change, jealousy will start, someone will fall in love, a heart will get broken

For me, after any friends-with-benefits arrangement where there really was a friendship, feelings did come up, and the FWB stopped working

You'll stop being friends. And an awkward misunderstanding of the situation will appear between you.

Well, sometimes strong relationships are born out of that awkwardness.