Culture writer @TheFP, novelist, half of @femchaospod, yoga instructor. Latest book: a wilderness thriller called HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE WOODS, out now!
Women need to understand that your male friends will think of you sexually at times. This is actually not as important of a factor in friendship in the male brain as it is within the normal female conception of "thinking sexually." It is most often simply a lizard brain, subconscious and fairly unpreventable glitch that means little within the friendship itself.