<Li> Hurting the friendship: 28.2% were worried that the friendship that was already established would be harmed . </Li> <Li> Causes negative emotions towards one another: 27.4% were concerned negative feelings would develop between the two friends . </Li> <Li> Pregnancy / STDs: 9.7% of the students surveyed were worried they would become pregnant or catch an STD . </Li> <P> Hughes's study also revealed the four main categories of why partners participating in a casual relationship did not feel the need to tell their same sex friends about the relationship . The first category was that the partners did not feel that their same sex friends needed to know this information . The second category consisted of people wanting to keep the casual relationship a secret and didn't want their same sex friends to know . The feeling of embarrassment was the third category . Many students said that they would feel ashamed or didn't want to be judged by their same sex friends . The final category is students who didn't want to tell their same sex friends because they would show disapproval of the relationship . </P>

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