Most people have engaged in casual sex at some point. Some people will no doubt respond to that question by pointing out that casual hookups are meaningless and lack intimacy that feeds both body and soul.
But recent research suggests casual sex and its relationship to intimacy is largely misinterpreted in the present culture. To gather data, researchers provided a voluntary online questionnaire to several hundred college students.
The questions dealt with affectionate and intimate activities β cuddling, spending the night, foreplay, and eye gazing, etc. As the researchers expected, more people got affectionate during relationship sex. However, the rate at which intimacy was a part of casual sex was much greater than hypothesized.
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