The greeks defined four kinds of love......
Agape = spiritual love
Storge = familiar love
Philia = love between friends
Eros = sexual love
Contrary to popular belief (on this board), true friends do not fornicate.
True friend have no sexual desire for each other.
Even if you do not have eros, then it's almost a given that your friend of the opposite sex does.
The only true way to have philia, is to have no sexual feelings between the two parties. This rarely ever happens.
If your a girl with all these supposed guy friends, I dare you to take my challenge.
Ask each of them to have sex with you.
I don't know why girls can't get it through their head, that a guy is truly never your friend (unless there is 0 sexual attraction).
Males bond with each other in a way females tradionally do not.
Fraternity is a male idea. Your guy friend only sticks around because he wants to have sex with you, or wants to be seen with you, or maybe meet some of your female friends. The point is, it's always a selfish reason that benefits his self interest.
Now I don't know where most of you live, but I have never met a female who was more interesting to talk to than my male friends. Females exists for other outlets (intimacy, sex).
It's not tradional for a female to have males as friends.
This is a modern notion.
All of the men I know who are in a relationship, has a woman that drops all her girlfriends the minute she nests.
Very few keep friends, and those who do usually only have 1 or 2.
This is natural.
Every girl I've ever come into contact with who has predominately guy friends, has been fawked in the head. I've never met an exception. But I've met girls with a transparent guy friend, who obvioulsy wants to fawk.