One-night stand

A one-night stand or one-night sex is a single sexual encounter in which there is no expectation that there shall be any further relations between the sexual participants. It draws its name from the common practice of a one-night stand, a single night performance by an entertainer at a venue. The practice can be described as "sexual activity without emotional commitment or future involvement".[1][2]

  1. ^ Jeffrey S. Turner, American Families in Crisis: A Reference Handbook (2009), p. 47.
  2. ^ de Jong, D.C.; Reis, H.T. (2016). "Love and Intimacy". Encyclopedia of Mental Health. Elsevier. pp. 25–32. doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-397045-9.00107-5. ISBN 978-0-12-397753-3. Passionate love is an emotionally intense and consuming desire for union... people can feel sexual desire in the absence of passionate love (e.g., one-night stands).