After reading, “Study Casts Skeptical Light on Campus 'Hookup Culture'” by Mark Parry I got the impression that there is no way to know for sure about the change in the amount of hookups by college students. The amount may not have changed but the openness about the subject has changed.
I have heard older generations discuss this subject. They claim that people did hookup but it was usually on a date or with the same partner in a committed relationship. If a person did have multiple partners it was done discreetly.
From growing up in this generation I can see that things have changed over the years. People from years past did not discuss their partners in public. In our generation, guys and even girls, talk openly about the events of the night before. The article stated that, “today's young people are also less likely to be married or have a regular sexual partner.” In many conversations I have heard by my peers, I have never heard anything about a dinner or movie, just meeting, hooking up, and never talking to the person again. For some reason when people have multiple partners it is viewed as a status symbol, or so it appears.
The views of each generation on this subject and the progression of openness about it is recorded in the media of each time period. The music and movies from my grandparents' era were more conservative than the music and movies now. In my parents' time the music and movies were moving away from conservative values. Now in my generation, almost every secular song mentions sexual encounters in a vulgar way. In the society we live today, even kids movies have hooking up references.
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