Brakebill, Riley: Sexual Heath

           For some college students, “hooking up” with other students is a major highlight of their college careers. However, there are still students like myself who choose to put their pent-up energy into their studies. I believe that although there may be more talk about hooking up than there once was, it doesn’t necessarily mean that more college students are having more casual sex with various partners.

As far as my personal college experience goes, hooking up doesn’t really affect me. Most of my friends aren’t concerned with sleeping around and neither am I. Our time is spent studying and being involved in various activities on campus. However, I have one friend who seems to have a different sexual partner every week and has no moral dilemmas about his decisions. Personally, I’m not interested in that kind of activity on campus, but to each his own.

I strongly disagree that most young people are having sex more often and with more partners. According to the article, “today’s young people are not having sex more often or with more partners.” I don’t think that younger generations are involved in sexual activities any more or less than they were decades ago when the first of these two hookup studies were conducted.

The term “hooking up” doesn’t necessarily mean more sex among contemporary students. According to the article, the students “…did not report having sex with more people over the past year than earlier students did. And they were substantially less likely to have sex once or more a week.”

My personal experiences of “hooking up” on campus aren’t much to base the whole college experience on because I’m too busy to think about jumping into bed with someone. Even if I had the time to dedicate to this activity, I would value myself and my partner too much to consider having casual sex.