text: is it ok to be friends with benefits if both parties agree? i have this guy friend who i've done stuff with before and i've always thought of asking him to be friends with benefits if he agrees. i think that it is very hard to be friends period with the opposite sex, let alone being a friend with benefit. you have to be very careful when it comes to this. the relationship is probably already complicated and throwing intimate acts of sex into it, doesn't help. someone is always going to develop feelings, and therefore someone will get hurt. have you seen mtv's true life friends with benefits?