“Study
Casts Skeptical Light on Campus 'Hookup Culture'” from the Chronicle of Higher Education, is about
a study of college students relationships completed by Martin A. Monto. He is
interested in whether college students today are having more sexual relations
than college students in the past. He found that students today have more
partners and are less likely to get married, but the number of students
involved in sexual activities has not really increased that much throughout the
years.
I grew up in Arkansas, one of the states with an extremely high teen
pregnancy rate, so I have witnessed friends having to make life-altering
decisions because they became sexually active at a young age. Abortions are
most commonly performed on young girls between the ages of 15-19 according to
Stephanie Pappas, a writer for Live
Science. Most girls are in high school during that period, so Monto should
have studied ‘hookup life’ in high school instead of college. Then, he might
have found an increase in sexual involvement.
In college, people are just more
open about their sexual experiences than in high school. Consequently, there is
more chatter about sex on a college campus than on a high school campus.
Monto’s study also found that fewer college kids are getting married. More
people have confessed to being gay because it is socially accepted more than it
used to be; gay marriage is still illegal in most states. Divorce rates have
also skyrocketed causing people to be scared of marriage because they think it
will never work. From my experiences, the ‘hookup culture’ has changed but in
high school not college, and the marriage rates of sexually involved people has
decreased as Monto’s study stated.
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