Generally, when youre dating someone, you have special feelings for them. In friends with benefits scenarios, youre just friends — friends who hang out and sometimes have sex/be intimate with each other. People who are friends with benefits may be free to date other people.

Are friends With Benefits actual friends?

Friends with benefits (aka FWB) is a casual sexual relationship with either a friend (duh) or just a random person. The general idea is that you are friends (or at least friendly) with the other person and have a sexual chemistry, but are not interested in pursuing a more serious, romantic, relationship.