When Harry Met Sally. Classic.

Today was a boring, lazy Saturday afternoon. As I was flipping through the channels for something mindless to watch, I came across the travel channel. Food paradise was on and they were doing a special on best sandwiches in the United States. Of course amongst them was Primanti Brothers in Pittsburg where they stuff the sides (french fries and coleslaw) in the sandwich. However, the reason for this post is not to ramble about how delicious a Primanti sandwich is (though I could if that was the assignment). Another famous sandwich shoppe is the one where Sally has a fake orgasm in "When Harry Met Sally." Katz Deli is in New York City (center of the universe according to Angel). After they replayed that scene in the Food Paradise episode, I decided to watch the movie in its entirety. I never thought about Harry's critique of co-ed relationships the way I am after this course. From this point on in this post, I'm just going to throw some quotes out there.
The famous, men and women cannot be friends according to Harry:
Harry Burns: You realize of course that we could never be friends.
Sally Albright: Why not?
Harry Burns: What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form - is that men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.
Sally Albright: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved.
Harry Burns: No you don't.
Sally Albright: Yes I do.
Harry Burns: No you don't.
Sally Albright: Yes I do.
Harry Burns: You only think you do.
Sally Albright: You say I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge?
Harry Burns: No, what I'm saying is they all WANT to have sex with you.
Sally: They do not!
Harry: Do too.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do too.
Sally: How do you know?
Harry: Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.
Sally: So, you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive?
Harry: No. You pretty much want to nail 'em too.
Sally: What if THEY don't want to have sex with YOU?
Harry: Doesn't matter because the sex thing is already out there so the friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
Sally: Well, I guess we're not going to be friends then.
Harry: I guess not.
Sally: That's too bad. You were the only person I knew in New York.
Now that I think about it...nope I still disagree with Harry. I have had friends of the opposite sex since I was little. In fact, my best friends growing up were all boys. I did and still do have friends that I am not attracted to. But Harry says that its more for men than women. And, now looking back on it, it wasn't all of my friends, but sometimes the boys that I spent a lot of time with did show some non-friendly interactions. Middle school and my early years of high school I really had no interest in dating or any of that nonsense stuff. As far as I was concerned, boys still had cooties. Hopefully my pre-pubescent guy friends weren't thinking as graphically as Harry says they do, but eventually, there was some sexual tension. Ok Harry, but Sally still proved that women fake orgasms on occasion (and probably more often than males would like to know).
And to answer the question on the cover of the (once VHS) movie: "Can two friends sleep together and still love each other in the morning?" my analysis makes me believe that they were never really friends, just intended lovers too stubborn to admit it for years.