Is there a checklist?

[rangrz]

Here's a followup question: If someone
attaches emotions to sex, is there a way
to change that? Is that kind of destructive
thinking alterable? Silly question, I know,
since it's possible to do anything you want
to. But then I think about drug addicts. A
lot of them know they're harming
themselves, but do it anyway. But I
digress...

I'm not even sure if your question is meaningful. Sex, as a conscious behavior that has a subjective experience on your mental state, can not be separated from emotion per se. What particular emotions you experience from it can (and do) vary. However, much in the way an action like kicked in the shin or putting a shot of absinthe back produces some kind of psychological response, so does sex. Indeed, if it diddnt, you wouldn't want an FWB since sex would not be a positive, fun, enjoyable experience if you diddnt attach emotions like a sense of fun or sense of enjoyment or ultimately, if it failed to produce an emotional state of "happy" from the act.

So, I conclude your proposal of removing attachment of emotion to sex is in fact meaningless in the context of this thread. (But perhaps meaningful to consider in anesthetized or severe head trauma persons)