Unlike the modern definition of friends with benefits, friends with benefits have many forms of friendships and the benefits are more than just sex. From a reciprocal altruism point of view: reproductive and survival costs and benefits of opposite-sex and same sex friendships can be observed in humans. As our ancestors have lived in the past, without friendship certain tasks or social life would be difficult because a friend can provide fitness relevant benefits to us in several ways such as resources, cooperation, assistance, and mating opportunities. Both sexes acquired friendship from male and female to gain access to resources mentioned above. Forming friendship with an individual can be both beneficial and costly to ourselves.
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Male bonobos form will form alliances with other males so they could help each other fight to have access to a female. For an example, Alcock (2013) noted that forming alliances allows the low ranking males to confront a stronger rival, high ranking male, and mate with the female he acquired. The males of low ranking were able have access to mating with the female because one male would chase away or fight with the rival while the other mate with the female. Maybe in another chance, the other male would return the favor by chasing off a rival and let his friend have access to …show more content…
Having a female friend can be beneficial because the females can share knowledge about child care, provide advice on nursing or pregnancy, and also provided emotional support. The study that Lewis and his colleagues found that modern women would value same sex friends with characteristics associated with childcare (2011). Women tend to seek same sex friends because she can learn useful skills to help her nurse her offspring. Forming friendship with another women will help an individual dependable when she has to go somewhere, that friend can watch or assist her in babysitting her child. Another point, Friends with Benefits stated was the emotional closeness in female friendships maybe the strong linked for same sex friendships (Lewis, 2011). Women in the hunter-gathering society hung out together and obtained useful skills to help care for her offspring and husband.
When forming a female-female friendship, there are costs that an individual face such as sacrifice her knowledge to an individual might be helping another individual that is not related to her. Female-female friendship like the male-male friendship cost time because she may be assisted her friends with childcare duty. For example in our hunter-gatherers society, women watched other women’s children while she went gathering some
For male-male …show more content…
Male bonobos form will form alliances with other males so they could help each other fight to have access to a female. For an example, Alcock (2013) noted that forming alliances allows the low ranking males to confront a stronger rival, high ranking male, and mate with the female he acquired. The males of low ranking were able have access to mating with the female because one male would chase away or fight with the rival while the other mate with the female. Maybe in another chance, the other male would return the favor by chasing off a rival and let his friend have access to …show more content…
Having a female friend can be beneficial because the females can share knowledge about child care, provide advice on nursing or pregnancy, and also provided emotional support. The study that Lewis and his colleagues found that modern women would value same sex friends with characteristics associated with childcare (2011). Women tend to seek same sex friends because she can learn useful skills to help her nurse her offspring. Forming friendship with another women will help an individual dependable when she has to go somewhere, that friend can watch or assist her in babysitting her child. Another point, Friends with Benefits stated was the emotional closeness in female friendships maybe the strong linked for same sex friendships (Lewis, 2011). Women in the hunter-gathering society hung out together and obtained useful skills to help care for her offspring and husband.
When forming a female-female friendship, there are costs that an individual face such as sacrifice her knowledge to an individual might be helping another individual that is not related to her. Female-female friendship like the male-male friendship cost time because she may be assisted her friends with childcare duty. For example in our hunter-gatherers society, women watched other women’s children while she went gathering some