Which one you prefer?

Friends with benefits or friends without benefits?

Depends on whether the friend is ugly or not. Welcome to Mingle2.

Male: without.
Female: also without.
If you like someone enough to sleep with them, why not try for an actual relationship?

I'd rather reply to someone with a real photo though!

I tell you later

Why what are you offering with or without?

I don't sleep with friends. There are friends and there are romantic partners and there can be sexual partners if you're into that.
Some may mix these up, I don't. Ever. I don't do friends with exes either.

ditto...I'd also rather reply to someone with a profile which is not empty...

You stalking her profile... How do you know she's changed her pic...

This thread needs popcorn.

Whose turn is it to provide the popcorn?

Stalking? I think it is called curiosity

But a profile without any info about the person might be a wee questionable

Her new photo is completely different to the first one she had up, that's why. No stalking, just basic observation!

Ok maybe I'm not on this platform often enough to notice these things...

Caramel popcorn or salted?

Friends with benefits for sure

Not sure.
I've never been friends with someone, then started sleeping with them, then stopped, in order to compare and determine a preference.

Outside of that, each relationship is different.
I mean I have friends I've known since I was in grade school.
I have friends I have never seen outside of work.
Some friends I'd lend money. Others I wouldn't.
Some I'd happily help move, others I'd avoid helping them move.
Some know things about me I'd never tell others.

"Friend" is too wide of a brush.

Other than that, if you're asking the question about online dating, perusing random strangers on the internet, predefining the relationship and boundaries, then you're ultimately just trying to put a watered down name ("friends," or, "friends with benefits") on what is ultimately just "using people."

define "friends"
then ask yourself how many true friends you have
now define "benefits"
can you see that you can have it both ways but separate.
I guess what I'm saying is that giving or receiving benefits doesn't always require friends

I would get back with my FWB in an instant if I could. We had many happy years before my dear departed.
I would do it again too, but meet more often, because you never know when things will change.

De-facto is friends with benefits living together.
If you live monogamously but separately, what is the difference ?

I'm out, but the shops are open

Sleeping with the enemy eh? I think you have to be friendly and become friends throughout the relationship or it’s never gonna last. I’m pretty sure you don’t just have sex with strangers but you also don’t call everyone you know. A friend. Don’t get friend zoned.

Sleeping with the enemy ? Lol