I suppose my being rather asexual helped there. I've always preferred the company of guys merely because they share my interests, though a lot of women online happen to, to my delight. Here at work though I can only discuss SF with the guys over the partition, not with the three other women. (And when someone brings a baby in: oy. I need to escape.)

Anyway I tend to see people as individuals and relate to them like that which made a friend at uni envious because she always saw men as sexual beings and couldn't just have a conversation with them as I happily did.

I should add that the whole expectation that close relationships be sexual very annoying. I've had people assume I'm involved with guys I like to talk to, and a gay female friend I lived with.