Disagree 100%
I personally neither have nor keep female "friends". I only have female acquaintances and all the other girls I've known deeply were flings, ex-gfs, or hookups.
ANY guy who's chummy chummy with a girl wants to get into her pants - 99/100 times at the very least.
The reason men don't talk much with women is because there isn't a lot that can talked freely without sexual tension scaling.
The only girl I talk to freely is my own girlfriend - and yep, the sexual tension there is part of the deal that's why.
Men talk notoriously well with other men - it's when women come into the picture that silence and flirtatious tactics start