Eroticizing Friendship

A different response to the all too familiar question at my small Catholic college: "can men and women be friends?"

Last weekend, I was having lunch with a few friends in our college town. We went to a small, Catholic university where the size brought with it both joyful experiences and a share of disordered mindsets–the community was strong and devout, feeding our faith lives and creating lifelong friendships. Conversely, it had more than one area of becoming an ech…