1 These group-buying sites represent an effective no-strings blessing in tough economic times.

2 China has been attacked for its no-strings approach to aid, which some say allows human-rights abuses and corruption to flourish.

3 The "no-strings" investments from Nigeria to Ethiopia fly in the face of Western efforts to link investment with improvements in human rights and the environment.

4 Half of the women who have a no-strings relationship with a male friend do so because they don't want a serious relationship, the study found.

5 All his kind generally wanted was a quick flirtation, an acquiescent woman, and a no-strings parting the following morning.

6 Chinese aid focuses on themes of "equality, mutual benefit and no-strings attached" according to a 2011 report on foreign aid published by China's Information Office of the State Council.

7 Websites may have helped spread the word about dogging, but the internet offers a myriad of more convenient ways to organise no-strings sex with strangers.

8 In a recent study conducted in New Zealand , women are going out in packs, getting drunk and surveying the market of who they'd like to have no-strings sex with.