some people love the idea and the freedom of hooking up with someone with no strings attached, while others don’t like the idea of sex without commitment or consistency. in either case, our culture tends to think of casual sex as being straightforwardly carnal — about the sex and nothing but the sex. although the researchers found, unsurprisingly, that there was far more intimacy and affection in relationship sex than casual sex, the frequency of affection and intimacy during casual …