I don't know whether this has been posted up before, but if it hasn't, then here you go, but if it has, then its a nice review.

The ladder Theory all summed up is the mental ranks which men and women give their friends. Men and women have different ways of ranking their friends on bases of attractiveness.

This site will better explain:

http://tinyurl.com/4n46f

this is something off the home page of the site; a dialog which explains the ladder theory better than I could:

Sally: We are just going to be friends, OK?
Harry: Great, friends. It's the best thing...You realize, of course, that we can never be friends.
Sally: Why not?
Harry: 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: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: You only think you do.
Sally: You're saying I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge?
Harry: 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 them, 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.

It's been done, many times.

And as in previous threads about it, I'm going to point out that the only guys who think like that are 14 year old sex-crazed boys.

well this has been posted before on totse. But I think some of it is fake because guys and girls can be friends without one falling for the other it is possible and it does happen. I have many female friends who I wouldn't sex.

Posted ad-infinitum, discussed ad-nauseum.

I thought ladder theory meant that once a girl has you in the "friends" category, it's nigh on impossible to get out of it.

That's total bullshit if you ask me. Same with the guys only being friends with girls because they want to "bang" them as somebody so aptly put.

Guys can be friends with girls without wanting to have sex with them, and you can be friends with a girl and then later develop it into a relationship. Ladder theory is full of holes and it's for the people who sit at home at the computers all day reading up on how to get a girlfriend, without actually doing anything about it.

Ladder Theory seems a little shallow, but honestly, I think most of it is true...For real man, I'd fuck a lot of my "girls that are friends", and that weirds me out to say it, cause I think they're my friends...

What I'm saying is, if she came out of the bathroom naked, like the author said, and told me to fuck her, I wouldn't miss a beat.

Just being honest. I'm not a bad person.

Guys can be friends with girls without wanting to have sex with them,

Only if they're fat/ugly/etc.