I believe that not
much has changed in the area of “hook-ups” from the last generation to this
one. Since I have started school this semester, I have only heard of two
drunken make-outs between people that I know. However, as a college kid I would
not refer to this as a “hook-up” as might the professors in the reading. From
movies I have seen about college, I figured that there would be more “hook-ups”
than there actually are, because those movies led me to believe that the
culture actually had changes and is worse now than it was a decade ago.
One of the
comments on this article is that college kids experiment, which is a very true
statement. I have always heard that college years are the “wild” years, and the
only “hook-ups” that I have heard about are after something “wild” has
happened.
I do believe that
what has changed about this culture are the customs. A decade or two ago, it
was crazy to talk about some topics in public. Sexual topics were
most certainly talked about but only behind closed doors and typically among the
same gender. Today, it is not uncommon for me to walk into the lobby and sit
down with everyone to talk and then hear someone crack a dirty joke during the
conversation. Once this has happened, the conversation usually spirals out of
control into a talk about anything and everything relating to sex.
No longer are topics or jokes about “hook-ups”
are no longer discussed behind closed doors, these topics are open conversation
in the lobby. Also, I have always heard that boys are the ones who tend to do
this most often; on this campus however it is very even. Meaning girls crack just as many,
if not more dirty jokes than boys.
In what I have
seen from my fellow classmates, the action is has not changed nearly as much as
people think it has, but what has changed is how much teenagers talk about the
action.
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