Can males & females just be friends?

This is 'th-e' question.

Can a male be friends with a female without having any strong love feelings?

In My Eyes;
- A perfect relationship is when the couple have a strong bond, when they are best friends and understand eachother, when there is trust and communication.
- A perfect friendship is when two friends have a strong bond, when they spend a lot of time together and understand eachother, when there is trust and communication.

Aint they both the same thing?

In a perfect relationship there has to be a perfect friendship for it to work.

I believe that if a male and a female are friends and just see eachother as friends they will not even think about having a crush on eachother but as their friendship develops and they create a strong bond they will start developing feelings for eachother (even when they dont know they are), I believe that this is because a best friend is someone you can lean on and know their true colours, someone who you are honest with and trust and this is exactly what you'd want in a relationship and you dont realise you have it, and this is a good thing because if you know that you are in love with your best friend you wil either panic because you dont want to ruin thing or change things or you will rush into things and this will make things worse, whereas if you dont realise it you will take your time and carry on casj.. this will make your bond even stronger without you even trying.
I dont believe that a male and a female can be best friends but I do believe a male and a female can be friends if they dont have that close string bond to make them start loving eachother.

Sounds like a fairytale, dont it?

But .... - You know there's a but where Im from.

In todays society... most or some males and females cant just be friends because you will realise that you either become friends with benefits or a couple. Theres pressure, especially with males to get girls and not be soft hearted, they need to have a 'player' 'gyallis' 'hoodrat' reputation and they cant do that if they have 'bestfriends' especially 'female bestfriends'. Its hard to find two opposite sex people actually become really close friends.