Harold and Maude have been good, close friends for a couple of years. One night over dinner at a favorite restaurant, Harold disclosed that he would like their relationship to become a romance, with a monogamous sexual dimension

If
Maude had read recent research on cross-sex friendship, what would she have
understood about Harold's suggestion?
A. Research suggests that, in the majority of cases, men in cross-sex
friendships will attempt to turn the friendship into romance.
B. Research suggests that men tend to form friendships with women based
on sexual motivations, while women's motives tend to be more platonic
in nature.
C. Research on cross-sex friendship is so new that no conclusions or
predictions can be made about a person's motives in this kind of
relationship.
D. Research suggests that, in most cases, women would like a friendship to
turn sexual, but they believe it's the man's place to suggest this kind of
change.

B