The Definition Of A Hookup Culture

Good day, students. Welcome to Introduction to Sexology. I’ll be lecturing on the first topic on the syllabus which is ‘Dating then versus Now’ with a special look at the hookup culture. Do you prefer to be a romantic relationship or do you prefer to hookup? (Listens to everyone shout their preference.) Why? (Listen to the answers of a few.) Before we get started let me give you a working definition of a hookup. According to Garcia and Reiber,
A “hook-up” is a spontaneous sexual interaction in which: 1) the individuals are explicitly not in a traditional romantic relationship with each other (i.e., not dating, not boyfriend/girlfriend), 2) there are no a priori agreements regarding what behaviors will occur, and 3) there is explicitly no promise

Historians for one can attest to that. The Greeks made it a point of reference to describe multiple types of love, two in particular being Eros which is carnal love and agape which is spiritual love. I’ve always been fascinated by the hookup culture that so many participate in since the early 1900s, what it entails and how it has shoved romantic relationships onto the back-burner. While there are psychologists, sexologists and testimonials out there that can attest to the hookup culture being a necessary phase of life or beneficial in some way, shape or form, other psychologists, sexologists and testimonials have revealed there are negative effects of hookup culture. Intimate relationships have predominantly shifted from romance to hooking up. Hookup culture has undoubtedly led to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, media and technology aid hookup culture at the detriment of romantic relationships and the feminist belief of hookup culture being something positive for women has

Nourse lays out a few statistics in her article entitled The Effects of Hookup Culture. In her article she mentions that Sexually transmitted infections diagnosis in college females are directly linked hooking up and,
It has been estimated that one out of every four college students has a sexually transmitted disease, and many students do not realize that sexually transmitted diseases can be spread even when the disease is not visible to the naked eye (Berman, 2013)
Given the fact that when hooking up takes place, the people involved don't usually know each other, are usually intoxicated and rarely speak about their sexual history in the heat of the moment; consequently, a condom may or may not be used as well as the fact that contraceptives are not 100%