MSM of color reported fewer casual male partners than did their white counterparts, providing further evidence that partner number is not driving the long-observed disparity in HIV incidence between ...

The best thing about being in a casual relationship is having plenty of time to just do you with no pressure. You can take your relationship at a leisurely pace, with all the personal time you need to ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on medical disclosure and marital malaise. By Kwame Anthony Appiah This is the fourth installment in a series for this column, answering readers’ thorniest questions ...

Casual sex can allow people to experience intimacy outside a long-term commitment. Depending on the context, casual sex can provide certain benefits, although it can also carry risks. Sex outside a ...

Let’s get one thing out of the way first: There are no hard-and-fast rules to dating or relationships. Every relationship is different, and the guidelines and expectations should be defined and set by ...

Casual romance is often defined by companionship without commitment—enjoying the present, not planning the future. For many casual partners, flexibility means freedom, and when it comes to commitment, ...

Teens have as much unsafe sex with their main sex partners as they do with their casual sex contacts, Brown University researchers report. Sexually active teens say they use condoms more often with ...

If you're going to have a successful casual relationship with someone, you have to know how to not catch feelings for the other person. Once feelings are involved, things can become complicated and ...

Young people on the dating scene are often stereotyped as looking for casual partners. But is this a fair characterization? The truth is that many young people are not interested in meaningless ...

Whether you're figuring out what you want after a breakup or having the single summer of your life, sometimes, you just want to date without strings attached. Sound familiar? Well, casual dating might ...

We shared a post where men revealed their casual sex stories and their various perspectives on what it means to them. 1."I slept around a lot for about three years, and I totally regret it. At the ...

Background: In 2006, the majority of new HIV infections were in MSM. We sought to describe numbers of casual sex partners among US MSM. Methods: Data are from the first MSM cycle of the National HIV ...