Friendship-favorable, or plato-favorable, is a friendship stance that describes an individual who is favorable towards or enjoys the act or concept of platonic interaction. The term is commonly used by aplatonic spectrum individuals, but is not exclusive to this community or platonicity.
Friendship-favorable individuals, including those on the aplatonic spectrum, may enjoy platonic content, friendship, or other platonic acts and they may seek out platonic relationships, possibly because they enjoy the emotional sensation, or for other reasons.
Some individuals may be favorable toward certain platonic acts, while feeling indifferent or repulsed by other platonic acts. The term friendship-ambivalent may be used to describe this experience.
Friendship-favorable individuals may also identify as iculaplatonic.
Flag
The friendship-favorable flag was designed by Tumblr user arco-pluris on March 12, 2018. It is based on the sex-favorable and romance-favorable flags.[1]
History
This term has existed in some form in the aplatonic community and was recoined for the purpose of providing a concrete source by AnonymousHermitCrab on the subreddit r/asexuality on April 27th, 2022.[2]