With an observed increase of teen pregnancies out of wedlock and rising statistics of individuals who have acquired STDs, it is easy to assume the current teenage generation has an issue with “hooking up.”
This may or may not be the case. According to the article “Study Casts Skeptical Light on Campus ‘Hookup Culture’” by Marc Parry, college students today, surprisingly, are not having sex more frequently or with more partners than they were in the 1980s and 1990s. If nothing has changed, why is the present college cohort perceived to be more sexually social than past ones?
I believe the present cohort is more self-revealing and carefree about itself than past ones. Today, people more openly discuss details about their personal lives that often tarnishes their reputations. For example, my friend’s roommate from another school revealed that she had already slept with 12 guys since she had moved in at college, and only one used a condom. The real kicker is that she has had herpes since the eighth grade! Her school has been in session for three weeks, so if she keeps a rate of four guys a week, she will have been with sixty-eight guys before Christmas break. Carefree, right? No, just irresponsible and outright stupid.
My advice to her is to be less open with the world around her about her sexual relations and be more open to her partners. (Telling someone you have herpes might be relevant.) Situations similar to this one may have happened throughout history, but the problem with today’s generation is that more and more people lack self-respect and confidentiality. Also, society is becoming more accepting of their nonsense, which constitutes to an even bigger problem.
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