I guess the bottom line is that in order to get laid, you need to be sexually aggressive. If they want you back, and the signals and the energy is right, as long as you let them know, matter a factly that you have no interest in being anything less than F*** buddies, you will eventually land up naked together. What I am viciously against is the "Friendzone" I pick and choose my female friends very carefully. Right now, it's down to one, and she is cool, although she knows that I'd do her in a minute, I have known her for 3 years, and she is a fun, and good person. So I dont go there with her.
But the others, well, they get told right off the bat, not to be seeing me as "just a friend" or they will get sent on their merry way. I REFUSE to waste $$$, time, energy and effort on a woman who only wants me for an emotional tampon. If she wants to tell me all about what an ******* her ex is, as long as she does it, while I am having my post coital ciggy, after the second round of anal sex, she can talk all night long about what an a$$hole he is, and even cry in my arms about him.