Martin
A. Monto believes the hookup discussion from The New York Times reveals “that young people are having more
no-strings-attached sex than their predecessors.” However, a new study shows
“no evidence of substantial changes in sexual behavior that would support the
proposition that there is a new or pervasive ‘hookup culture’ among
contemporary college students.” I fully agree with this new study. I do not
believe that students are hooking up more now than they did before. However, I
do believe that students are more open about it than they were in the past.
Mr.
Monto conducted two surveys, one from 1988 to 1996 and another from 2002 to
2010. These showed “that today’s young people are not having sex more often or
with more partners. They do not report having sex with more people over the
past year than earlier students did.” From what I have seen on campus, I agree
with this statement. I have not observed much “hooking up.” I am not saying
that it is not happening, but I do not believe that it happens as often as some
people believe. When interviewed, Mr. Monto said that “in many generations,
there’s a sense that sexual behavior is changing or becoming more liberal. Or
we’re in some brave new era.” To me, this is 100% true. Students
now are more open about hooking up or having sex than they were in the past. Students
were not as comfortable expressing it then as they are now.
When
it comes down to it, students are not hooking up more often. Mr. Monto says,
“fewer students today are dating,” but the expression “dating is dead” is not
true. Even though students do not date as much, that does not mean that they
hookup more often. I strongly believe that because today’s society is more open
about hooking up, this leads people to believe that it happens more often. We
might be more open now, but that does not mean it happens more often.
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