Thompson, Bryan: Sexual Heath

Whenever the word college is used, many things come to people’s minds. College is a place to get an education, get away from one’s parents, meet new friends, and join the big party scene. But that’s not all, it is where hookups happen.

                  A study by Kathleen A. Bogle who wrote Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus, says that the term hooking up has been around since the 1980s. This shouldn’t be a surprise because many students are so busy with college and joining clubs, they simply don’t have the time to become involved in serious relationships. Students are too worried about insuring their future through their education.

                  Another idea analyzed by Dr. Monto was whether students were hooking up more now than ever before. Interestingly, his study showed that hooking up hasn’t really changed. Students still hook up as much then as they do now, but how they hook up has changed. Students today tend to hook up with a friend or someone they had a casual date with.  Not only are students hooking up with just one person. The study showed that 39 percent of students have sex with more than one partner in a year and 59 percent were having sex weekly or more often.

      I have not had my own personal experience hooking up , but I do know someone from college that has hooked up with more than one partner since attending SAU. That person is not into serious relationships and according to the article Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too, this is the type of person an academically dedicated female student tries to hook up with. Reason being that a female student can still have a sex life and focus on her studies; which are hard to achieve while having a boyfriend.