According to Osho, true friendship between men and women is blocked by ownership-based institutions—especially marriage—that turn lovers into jailer and prisoner. Possessiveness, promises for forever, and social-legal bonds destroy equality and freedom, so attraction decays into routine, resentment, and power games. Only when relationships are free of contracts and roles, allowing love to come and go naturally, can men and women meet as equal friends.
Men and women can’t be real friends when they try to own each other; friendship needs freedom and equality, not contracts and roles.