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To answer your first question: "What is the standard way to land an airplane without flaps" Most aircraft flight manuals address this very issue. It ranges from changes in approach speeds to flaring techniches.
The second question "and is this dangerous?" does a good job answering the first also:
Flaps allow for an increased decent rate with out an increase in airspeed (right!!) this because large amounts of flaps (say 35 in a C-172) create more drag then lift. Therefore shorter landing distences because of lower speeds. In alot of twins and all jets that I've flown there are check list for Flap inop landings or Non standard flap landings or something along those lines. They all share the same thing though, higher airspeeds and therefore longer landing distences. With enough runway this isn't per say dangerous (10000 runway and a C-172). As an instructor with Flight Safety and having 2000+ hours instructing outside of the sim I can say that what is most dangerous about landing with out flaps is the fact that it leads to a much different looking flare, typicly you'll see a MUCH higher deck angle in a no flap landing then in a full flap landing. It's my opinion that this is what makes it so dangerous: it is outside the "normal" operating window that we spend 99% of our time in. Anything outside that windonw can be dangerous; whether it's a no flap landing or your first ILS to 200-1/2, or VFR in IFR.
No Flap landings are requierd for training for a type rating and that's why
God Bless
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