Religious nuts, helicopter parents, sexually frustrated health teachers, educators, and generally anyone who doesn't have casual sex often references the convenient wisdom that casual sex is detrimental to your emotional well-being (read soul for the religious minded). While causal sex isn’t for everyone, a good portion of young people have already discovered what researchers just found out: casual sex isn’t emotional damaging if you're mature enough to handle it.
This article appears in Dec 9-15, 2009.