The earliest known use of the term is documented in Alanis Morissettes 1995-1996 song Head Over Feet when she says, youre my best friend, best friend with benefits. The parties involved in FWB relationships enter it with the understanding that the relationship will end at some point in time.

When did the phrase friends with benefits start?

Feeling always get in the way. By the 1990s, friends with benefits was an established term for two friends who have occasional casual sex. Interest in the phrase spiked in 2011 with the release of the rom-com Friends with Benefits, starring Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake.

Why do we call it friends with benefits?

Its somewhere between a dating relationship and a friendship. Usually, friends with benefits (a.k.a. FWB) means that people who know each other engage in intimate/sexual activity without really dating each other. Its different from hooking up, which tends to be a one-time thing with someone new.

What is the story of friends with benefits?

Jamie (Mila Kunis) is a New York-based executive recruiter who entices Dylan (Justin Timberlake), an art director from Los Angeles, to take a job at the New York office of GQ magazine. Finding that they have much in common, the two become fast friends. Feeling jaded by a number of broken romances, Dylan and Jamie decide that they are ready to quit looking for true love and focus on having fun. However, complications unfold when the two best pals add sex to their relationship. Friends with Benefits/Film synopsis