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By Linda Lowen, About.com Guide to Women's Issues

(You've Gotta Have) Friends - With Benefits

Thursday September 27, 2007
Call it what you will: “friends with benefits” or “hooking up.”

Either way, many parents of teens and young adults are surprised (and often horrified) by the casual nature of sexual relationships today.

Some may ask, “Whatever happened to dating and romance?” As teens from New England to Chicago explain it, those concepts are not only outdated, they’re way too complicated.

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