The article, “Study Casts Skeptical Light on Campus
‘Hookup Culture’” was written to show that there are not a higher number of
teens having sex than there was in the 1980s.
I can remember when I was in middle school my friends and
I would not dare talk about sex, because sex was a “bad word.” As I have gotten
older sex has obviously become a more natural and common subject to discuss.
The article makes it seem like that sex is more common in teens nowadays, but I
believe that it we are just more open to talking about it. Media has influenced
us, by showing us that hooking up is something that should happen during a drunken
night in college, even if it is just making out with someone. The article says
that more young adults admitted to having sex with a friend or someone who took
them on a casual date. In the past, sex was a sacred act, which was saved for
marriage. But times change and now it is just something people do to be “cool.”
This generation of children is being taught that it is a bad thing to be a
virgin, and that it is not frowned upon to hook up with random strangers.
As I said earlier, in middle school we would not talk
about sex, but now if I go back and listen to my cousin, who is in sixth grade,
she and her friend talk about sex like it is no big deal. That is why I believe
we are just more open to talking about it, and that is why it seems like
hooking up is more common in college students.
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