InsaneMystic
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Friendships with sex sprinkled on top of it usually just gets called friends with benefits, both inside and outside of aro/ace circles.My reason was to say that if a person have casual lovers and mostly sexual relationship with friends, that is not polyamory. Or monogamy. It may be something very interesting that the asexual/aromantic folks have words for, if you have a close connection to a friend and sprinkle sex on top of it - people might even want to live with a friend and stil not be partners. But then it is something different and amazing that is not romantic love.
Close relationships that have all the commitment of partnerships (e.g. living together and all that jazz) but neither romantic nor sexual usually get called queerplatonic partnerships (QPP, for short) in the aro/ace community.
However, I certainly do consider both FWB and QPP a form of polyamory, if they're open for multiple people at the same time and the friendships are deserving of the name - to me, friendship absolutely implies a loving closeness and intimacy, and polyamory simply means there are many people you love - neither romance nor sex is a necessity for poly. An FWB arrangement is vastly different from "fuck buddies", in my opinion... having multiple FWBs is polyamory, whereas having nothing emotionally closer than fuck buddies isn't, regardless of their number.