Donna Freitas’s “The End of Sex” raises some interesting questions about the social cultures on college campuses. Freitas discusses the prevalence of a so called “Hookup Culture” that involves students foregoing emotional connections for quick sloppy sex. Throughout the text, though, Freitas constantly discusses how hookup culture is leaving this generation of students unfulfilled and miserable due to the aggressive bandwagoning qualities of hookup culture. The idea that I found most striking and most poignant was the discussion on how hookup culture is not propagated by one side. The stereotype of hookup culture is that it solely involves the guys taking dominance and controlling the whims and desires of the girls. However, in what Freitas …show more content…
While some people may remark that Notre Dame has a different sort of culture, and granted, the culture we have is much less extreme than those that Freitas describes, it is still difficult to find activities to do on friday and saturday nights that don't involve the raucous party life so many students adopt. As an anxious and uncertain freshman who had little interest in participating in this life, it was difficult trying to fit in with everyone else, even though I repeatedly tried to. The result was emotional struggle and dejection, as I felt like the whole of my college experience would be governed by my inability to be a normal guy.. However, perhaps the biggest part of this struggle was that I found myself hesitant to talk to anybody about this problem, as I was worried I would seem ridiculous and unmanly if I brought up my concerns. While nobody had distinctly told me that, I fell into the trap of assuming it was unmanly to dislike that sort of party culture, after all, everyone else was doing it. Thus I legitimately hated the first semester and a half of my college career trying to force myself to fit