I think I would seek the answer to your question following a different logical approach. I'd ask: "Is there is such thing as friendship between a male and a female dog?" or "...a male and a female cat?" or "a bull and a cow" or "...a ram and an ewe?" In most cases, when you examine such a relationship amid animals and apply the similarity of their approach to each other to the approach humans have, you will conclude that "... no, there's not! "; their natural mating desire after a lengthy exposure to each others presence always overcomes the 'propriety protocol' that behavior between friends shall always comply to and the two always end up tied up and bound in an emotional mess which may also complicate and destroy their relationship to each one's social circle. And the main reason for this trouble is the intensity of the instinct of the mating desire which becomes hard to controll, even for the most properly educated individuals. Usually girlies call a guy "he's my friend" when they are incapable to decide between 3-4 to be lovers who flirt them. And then for some, later on in life, when their personal dignity has been totally humiliated and they have been switching love partners in the fashion somoeone may switch trousers, calling a man 'a friend' is a cheap excuse for their loose moral condition. There's no chance you can have a better friend of the opposite gender than your sole partner once you are engaged in a healthy relationship; the rest are called "a friend of us" instead of "my friend" or simply "acquaintances". The other way leads only to emotional chaos which in mid term corrupts an entire society. And do me a favor, please, get yourself a pair of longer, wider trousers, try to reflect the true superiority that a human shall have to a dog!

Really got sick about this question. Why don't you go do a Google search see how others vote for it in other online communities, than do the statistics, I'm sure the feedbacks you can get are more than the world population.

I've seen too many people who think they can have such a relationship, but after marriage, sooner or later they face many problems, specially when that friend is a friend of just one of them, not both couples. And there are also a few people who make friends with their wife or husband's friends and don't force him or her to separate from good friends. I think it depends on how much they trust each other and how much they are loyal. when a person has cheated his or her partner, he or she is always waiting for being cheated!

Never... It leads to problems, a man should only be alone with his partner and visa versa... i wonder any married guy who would like his wife alone out with another man. When you are married you only hang out with the same sex or couples... never alone :) thought this was common sense :) i guess not, thats why there are so many problems with relationships these days :p - good question !!!

i guess there is such a thing, though it's hard to have... i guess many of us have some one in different sex we respect, for me, i really don't want to ruin it. I cherish that kind of relationship.