social circle dating

There is an instinct to always try and find your friends with benefits outside of your social circle. There is this general feeling that due to the “complication” of having a friend with benefits, finding them from outside is safer. We generally perceive that to try and have a hook up with someone within our close circle is a bad idea, one that will lead to guaranteed fall out and poor results. In this article I would like to challenge this concept, and put forward the argument that finding a friend with benefits from within your social circle brings with it a variety of benefits that that...