Youngblood, Julia: Sexual Health

I believe that not much has changed in the area of “hook-ups” from the last generation to this one. Since I have started school this semester, I have only heard of two drunken make-outs between people that I know. However, as a college kid I would not refer to this as a “hook-up” as might the professors in the reading. From movies I have seen about college, I figured that there would be more “hook-ups” than there actually are, because those movies led me to believe that the culture actually had changes and is worse now than it was a decade ago.            

One of the comments on this article is that college kids experiment, which is a very true statement. I have always heard that college years are the “wild” years, and the only “hook-ups” that I have heard about are after something “wild” has happened.

I do believe that what has changed about this culture are the customs. A decade or two ago, it was crazy to talk about some topics in public. Sexual topics were most certainly talked about but only behind closed doors and typically among the same gender. Today, it is not uncommon for me to walk into the lobby and sit down with everyone to talk and then hear someone crack a dirty joke during the conversation. Once this has happened, the conversation usually spirals out of control into a talk about anything and everything relating to sex.

 No longer are topics or jokes about “hook-ups” are no longer discussed behind closed doors, these topics are open conversation in the lobby. Also, I have always heard that boys are the ones who tend to do this most often; on this campus however it is very even. Meaning girls crack just as many, if not more dirty jokes than boys.     

In what I have seen from my fellow classmates, the action is has not changed nearly as much as people think it has, but what has changed is how much teenagers talk about the action.