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Casual sex refers to certain types of sexual activity outside the context of a romantic relationship. The term is not always used consistently: some use it to refer to any extramarital sex, some use it to refer to sex in a casual relationship, whereas others reserve its use for one-time encounters, promiscuity, or to refer to sex in the absence of emotional attachment or love.[1][2]
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Related terms
A hookup (colloquial American English) is casual sex activity that could consist of manual stimulation, oral sex, or sexual intercourse. An extended hookup sometimes refers to prolonged instances of casual sex interactions. This is a situation in which the involved parties occasionally meet for casual sex multiple times, always without a long-term commitment. This is a casual relationship specifically for sex and without any emotional aspect. Also another similar term is No Strings Attached Sex.
Other colloquial terms used to describe two people engaged in a relationship in which there is no emotional but purely sexual involvement are "fuck buddies", "friends with benefits", and "booty call".
Social norms and moral concerns
Most religions consider sex outside of marriage to be immoral (see Religion and sexuality). People's ideas about casual sex range from Conservative religious views (abstinence) to Liberal and Libertarian views (free love). During the sexual revolution in the United States and Europe in the 1960s and 1970s, social attitudes about sex underwent considerable changes. The advent of the pill and other forms of birth control, the Women's Liberation movement, and the legalization of abortion in the U.S. and other countries helped further the acceptance and practice of casual sex.
One-night stand
One-night stand is a single sexual encounter between individuals, where at least one of the parties has no immediate intention or expectation of establishing a longer-term sexual or romantic relationship.
Anonymous sex
Anonymous sex is a form of one-night stand or casual sex between people who have very little or no history with each other, often engaging in sexual activity on the same day of their meeting and usually never seeing each other again afterwards.[3]
Commercial sites
There are many specialist online dating services known as "adult personals" or "adult matching" sites which cater to people looking a purely physical relationship without emotional attachments. The internet provides a relatively anonymous forum whereby two people geographically close but in totally separate work and social circles can meet without any expectation of an emotional relationship.
See also
- Anonymous sex
- Booty call
- Casual relationship
- Cottaging
- Dogging
- Group sex
- List of sexology topics
- Promiscuity
- Sexual norm
- Swinging
- Friends with benefits
- STDs
- Zipless fuck
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References
- Ehrenreich, Barbara, Elizabeth Hess, and Gloria Jacobs. Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex. Doubleday, 1986 (ISBN 0-385-18498-0)
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