No, I do not believe that most men go into friends with benefits (FWBs) out of fear for responsibility that comes with relationships. Men fall in love with their dreams 1st before they fall in love with women. Until the dreams are actualized, they do not feel deserving of love.
Yet the physical needs cannot be ignored. The more liberal pay for sex in brothels. The less liberal seek a convenient domestic arrangement (FWB). I think it is for the best too. Because a man's love for a woman is useless, unless it is for himself first.
It's not that he does not know when he is losing a good thing. It is simply that losing her presents a less daunting threat than the loss of his dreams and ambitions. A man would sooner marry a woman he doesn't love when he is actualized than marry a woman he loves unactualized.
This is not to say that men who settle are unambitious. Ambition has different ceilings. I think itis not that young men don't know what they want in relationships. It is that they, in fact, know it, but have not found it yet, or do not how to, so are restless.
Restlessness is a marker - an opportunity for both. It tells the ambitious man where he is on his self-actualization scale; tells the loving woman the degree of investment to give the affair. If both play their part meticulously, FWBs work. Just know when to run! Run! Run!
Of course, the silent caveat here is that there has been prior communication of intentions. That pre-empts the powerplay coming into FWBs. Makes the experience enjoyable. Less holding back. Less rabid competition for who-cares-less. More intimacy. One FWB at a time.
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