Almost all men think of sex. It's biological. Doesn't make us pigs, just makes us human (and mentally healthy).
Some men have much better control and can allow themselves into more hazardous situations (melas for example)
The rest of us know our limits and try to stay within them.
I don’t know why any man would want to be “friends” with a woman without it being their spouse.
Being a friend to one woman is enough work, I can’t imagine being “friends” with more than one. It would be just too much damn work.
Talk about torture.
I did let my wife read this thread, and she makes a good point in that I’m not being totally honest if I didn’t point out that we’ve both had to end friendships, when the other party offered to go further.
I can be friends with a woman, no matter how sexually attractive I find her, or how sexually attracted she may be to me, provided that we both understand that it stops at attraction. It’s one thing to say no once, but another thing to have to repeatedly say no. I’ve demonstrated I have the strength for the former, but wouldn’t want to test the latter.