A Sociological Look At The "Hooking Up" Trend

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...some of which may last, but others that will likely not. One relatively new trend is hooking up. Here, instead of having serious relationships to which sex is tied, young people have "friends with benefits" or have sex with strangers at parties. The idea of hooking up is to have some sort of sexual experience without getting further involved. Is this really new? In the past, people would have "one night stands" but those were few and far between, and not the norm. McGinn (2004) writes: "Skeptics ask whether hooking up is really any different than the one-night-stands college students have had for decades. Most researchers believe it is, but it's hard to prove. The difficulty stems from the fact that older research focused on "casual sex," usually defined as an encounter that includes intercourse. Since many modern hookups stop short of all-the-way sex, it's hard to make apples-to-apples comparisons" (p.44). Today, it seems, that more and more young people are hooking up and...

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