...Introduction Today’s college sex scene is often depicted in media headlines and academic studies as a plague pinning the millennial generation at its core of iniquity. However, a recent study on the “hookup culture,” demonstrated that the chief change in sexual habits for Generation Y is not the amount of sex contemporary college students are having, but the context in which they are choosing to have sex (Monto and Carey 2014). According to this 2014 study, college students are increasingly feeling less obligated to have sex within committed, monogamous relationships, and instead, are more likely to engage in casual intercourse. This change in sexual behavior among contemporary young adults is consistent with cultural shifts in the scripts...
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...to judge these changes because they are not just simply a positive or negative issue but also a reflection of human development. In my point of view, we should hold a positive view of the phenomenon that women have more economic power because it is a symbol of the improvement of female statues. However, when people are trying to break the bonds of convention and live freely, it is very easy for them to fall into a wrong path. I believe many people have lost themselves when they are pursuing causal sex and the status of being single. The increasing economic power of women not only shows women have the same capability as men do but also improves the status of women. It is true that this change threatens the traditional male-dominated culture and blows male’s self esteem. In the article “The End of courtship,” Alex Williams reveals that this change of women’s economic power is one of the biggest factors that challenge the traditional male-dominated dating structure. However, I believe it is the time for men...
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...Asking someone out to dinner or a movie has become a thing of the past; currently, young people are allowing their hormones to take control and disregarding any sort of romance involved with getting laid. With so many online dating tools available: sites like Tinder, Bumble, and Grinder have made meeting people all around the world easier than ever. Although, in the past dating sites have been seen as a resource to find a perfect match. Today’s youth see dating websites as a method to find their next one night stand. The popularity of hookup culture is rising every day, because individuals are too lazy, too broken, or straight up just don't want to deal with a relationship. Hook-up culture can come in many forms: one night stands, friends with...
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...Hooking Up: The College Experience The situation is one played out in soap operas, many a movie, and every weekend on college campuses across the nation. Boy meets girl, boy and girl get drunk, and boy and girl wake up together the next morning. It’s the sensation that’s gripping the nation, hooking up. By the time of their graduation the average college student has had around seven of these encounters, twenty-eight percent of graduates have had more than ten while twenty-four percent of graduates never have participated in the culture (James, 2009). Hooking up has been viewed as degrading, liberating, dangerous, and as no different than prostitution. However, the opinion that seems to be most prevalent is that the hook up culture is fun and harmless. In order to fully understand the hook up culture we must examine how this culture is affecting its participant’s sexuality and their future relationships. In order to answer this question we need to first understand what the controversies surrounding the hook up culture are; why the hook up culture has become so prevalent in today’s society; how the hook up culture has possibly desensitized us to sexual assaults; finally and probably most important we need to understand what the impacts upon the future relationships and sexuality of those who engage in the hooking up culture are. The hook up culture that exists in today’s society, specifically in college, is a very hotly debated topic among college students, professors, the...
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...encompassing actions ranging from kissing to oral sex to vaginal penetration (Hunter, 2009). It is a way for individuals to satisfy their sexual urges without the pressure of commencing a long term relationship or even a marriage (Hunter 2009). There exists several types of hook-ups. These encounters can either be a one-time deal, or a frequent occurrence with a stranger and/or a friend. The latter hook-ups can be known as a “booty call” or “friends with benefits” (Heldman & Wade, 2010). Generally, hook-ups begin at social events like parties, a bar, or a place where alcohol is available as a social lubricant (Heldman & Wade, 2010; Stinson 2010; Hunter 2010). The place of meeting, oftentimes, occur at male-dominated parties like fraternities, or through virtual means like online applications (Armstrong et al., 2010). Once the individuals have met, either in person or via mobile, they will meet up, and perform said actions constituting of a hook-up (Heldman & Wade, 2010). After the sexual encounter has taken its course, the other party will not stay in order to avoid “the walk of shame” (Heldman & Wade,...
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...In the wake of the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012, the Sandy Hook Promise organization was founded by family members of the victims with the mission of preventing gun violence and promoting social and emotional wellness in schools and communities. This non-profit organization focuses on implementing programs and practices that aim to create a safer and more inclusive environment for students and educators across the country. At the heart of the Sandy Hook Promise is the belief that through education, awareness, and advocacy, we can work towards a future where incidents of gun violence in schools are not only reduced, but ultimately eliminated. By empowering students, educators, and community members with the tools and resources they need to recognize the warning signs of potential violence and intervene before it occurs, the Sandy Hook Promise is working to create a culture of prevention and intervention that can save lives. One of the key initiatives of the Sandy Hook Promise is their Start With Hello program, which focuses on combating social isolation and...
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...bell hooks is a cultural critic, scholar, and prolific writer who focuses mainly on race, gender, politics, and popular culture in her works. In her essay “Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor,” hooks expresses her view about poverty. Primarily, she begins by describing how society avoids the issue of the poor and how she was raised in a family that lacked wealth, but not morals. Likely due to being raised in this setting, she does not view the poor without morals as the media portrays, but sees them to be hardworking and honest. As a final point, she reflects on how society downgrades the poor and that their views need to be changed (hooks 437). In regards to her feeling of contempt towards those who misrepresent the poor, hooks effectively implements purpose, audience, and diction in order to effectively express her belief that the poor are being stifled by the public’s generalizations about their morals and behavior. The author primarily expresses her feelings of contempt through her criticism of others’ views on poverty. She reflects how “[t]elevision shows and films bring the message home that no one can truly feel good about themselves if they are poor” and “the working...
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...Caitlin Cataldi Professor Delores Zumwalt English 1302 June 22, 2013 Romance ideals Love is like an addiction to drugs. Some people crave it while others fear it. We want intimacy, but we also fear it because we are scared of commitment, being close to someone or even being alone. Within society, people seem to invest more time in finding love immediately than they do in grasping the real concept of love. In a typical college town, you would see many teenagers hanging out in groups rather than hanging out individually. Hanging out in groups allows for less attachment and just looking to have a good time with the people you know. It is less risky and has less potential to being hurt. Spending time one on one allows one to build actual feelings for one another, but “the date” could lead to something that one might regret including sexual encounters. It is more risky and has more potential to being hurt. We tend to think that the only way to be happy in life is to find a loved one and spend the rest of our lives with that significant other. Love is more varied and equally satisfying. Our view of love is inaccurate. When people are powerfully attracted to one another, they discuss having “chemistry” which only turns out to be a metaphor. When you are in love, there are a lot of chemicals reacting in your brain and body. In Love: The Chemical Reaction, Lauren Slater discusses “that certain powerful chemicals in our bodies, especially dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin, stimulate...
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...romantic relationship over the course of the hookups, but men typically less interested in a romantic relationship both before and after. In theory, allowing “both parties to walk away unscathed” from a sexual encounter. Ends up being numbing, empty, even boring. Hookup culture has emerged from more general social shifts taking place during the last century. The 1920s, with the rise of automobile use and entertainment venues throughout North American, traditional models of courting under parental supervision begun to fade. An increase in “dating” during this period gave way to a move permissive peer-influenced social-sexual liberated in the 1960s, with the rise of feminism, growth of college party events, widespread availability of birth control, and deposing of parental expectations as central to mating and marriage. Hookups or uncommitted sexual encounters, are becoming progressing more engrained in popular culture, reflecting both evolved sexual predilections and changing social and sexual scripts. Hook up activates may include a wide range of sexual behaviors, such as kissing, oral sex, and penetrative intercourse. However, these encounters often transpire without any promise of, or desire for a more traditional romantic relationship. Hooking up, extensive primary examines tradition college students. Most studies focus on gender differences, to the exclusion of other axes of identity, such as race, class and sexual orientation. This sexual paradigm shift, including college...
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...Hooks childhood was full of suppressed desires, as her mom would scold her for having desires they couldn’t afford. As she grew up being scolded with every desire, she learned to scold herself and realized that scolding herself was necessary, since considering a desire for too long will only make it clear that those desires are unfulfillable. When she was unable to pay for a distant college, she was left to join a college near home were all financial issues would be taken care of, but that nearby college was full of privileged white woman, and where would feel separated and inadequate. She goes on and compares herself to the rich girls with hidden anger, and as she uses her religion to give herself the sense of superiority as she claims most rich people never make it to heaven. Later Hooks teachers tell her to set her new school destination to Stanford University, as it’s a place where education is valued more than wealth. Although her parents were not okay about how far California is and having the credibility to turn people evil, she continued her journey to Stanford. It was at Stanford where she met the same type of discrimination, she had seen in her old college but came to the realization that they didn’t exclude her because she was black but because she was poor. Hooks concludes that school for poor students meant they had to...
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...While Barbra Mellix article “From Outside, In," discusses the differences of where she was raised, the country, and the language used compared to the language that she was to use when in the city or certain family. Mellix also wrote about how learning the proper English language and writing had become beneficial in her life. In turn, Perri Klass article, “Learning the Language" reveals how in the medical field or community there is a certain language that is used between co-workers that only they understand. Bell Hooks article “Teaching New Worlds/ New Words” there is the cultural background that is discussed, how the white culture was pushed upon the blacks in order to fit into their standards. It is apparent by these three texts that there is an apparent similarity in how language can be beneficial to some but when pushed into a culture change some are more willing to go against. When it comes to Klass and the article "Learning the Language", it seems as if it should be very easy to relate to any type work in any type of field. It is not just the medical fiels that has its own jargon between workers. Knowing the language and the slang of your surrondings is very important. Compare this to Mellixs' article and how she was able to change her language depending where she was and whom she was with. When working in such a fast pace environment it is easy to shorten a conversation when you might not have the time to stand and chat. Klass uses the way medical students have to work...
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...getting to know the person which belittles the human intellect and decreases the intimacy of sex in a committed relationship. The hookup culture is hindering our generation due to casual sex, morals, and the latest pop culture. Yet, for all their future fantasies on love and marriage may take a toll. Hook ups is a certain type of sexual activity outside of romantic relationships that imply an absence of commitment, emotional attachment, or volition in the United States and Europe. Casual sex and hanging out defies the flourishing rule of what makes love and marriage work: emotional vulnerability. Schulten states, “Given the way members of Generation Y have been conditioned, their seemingly blithe attitude about marriage, and sex perhaps even about love, may become less of a boon and more of a bust.” (1). Sexual actions should only be committed under a relationship because senseless actions leads love of sexual intimacy....
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...modern "Hookup" culture during this era. In 1960, the first oral contraceptive pill was marketed in the United States. This definitely contributed to the rise in premarital sexual encounters due to of its minimal risk of failure. Lyndon B. Johnson even endorsed the use of the birth control pill. There were a series of studies done by M. Zelnik and J.F. Kantner in which they followed cohorts of young women aged fifteen through nineteen, and surveyed them...
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...Cartoonist Liza Donnelly uses her cartooning to discuss the patriarchy and issues women face in the world, but specifically those in the US. Donnelly believes “Women + Humor=Change” and uses the posted TEDTalk, from the 2010 TEDWomen Conference, to discuss how it could work. Donnelly brings up issues of how to break to mold of traditional conformity and a women’s role in affecting change. Her message is how women can use feminism as a tool for change for women and the world. In 2000, Feminist Politics: Where We Stand Hooks discusses how feminist politics has lost momentum. Donnelly effectively addresses this concern through her cartoons which are sharable, able to be put on bumper stickers, postcards and ads as Hook outlined to regain the feminist...
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...Growing up, JG’s family has always been suspicious of his sexuality, often asking each other if they thought he was gay. I’ve known JG and his family since the sixth grade, and I was often pulled into these gossips, his family begging for more information that I frankly did not have. In the eighth grade, JG accepted the fact that he is attracted to other men. Partially joking, I asked if he just woke up one day and realized. “No,” he explained, “you always know, but you don't accept it until later.” JG has gone from meaningless hook-ups to currently entering his first ever relationship in a matter of two years, and although he is still uncertain about where marriage will fall in his future, he does seek long-term commitment and eventually,...
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