Casual sex refers to certain types of sexual activity outside the context of a romantic relationship. In his television show Real Time with Bill Maher, Bill Maher attributed the creation of the concept to the French, saying that "they invented sex during the day."[1] 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.
People's attitudes to casual sex range from conservative and religious views, the extreme of which is abstinence, to liberal and libertarian views, the extreme of which is free love. During the sexual revolution in the United States and Europe in the 1960s and 1970s, social attitudes to sexual issues 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 many countries is believed to have led to a wider practice of casual sex.[4][5][6] Most religions disapprove of sex outside of marriage (see Religion and sexuality).
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