Hooking Up And Dating Essay

For just a little over a century now, the date has been a vehicle for creating lifetime lovers. A date could be defined as two people getting together for an activity when the possibility of romance between them has been broached but not ruled out. Dating took rise with the rise of the automobile. This allowed for young courting couples to experience new things together- away from the eyes of their parents and outside of the home. Dating soon replaced courtship, and became the main path to finding love. Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first century, groundbreaking events like the feminist movements of the 1960-70s, the legalization of the birth control pill, 1973’s Roe v. Wade, and more recently with the 2016 election year- having the first female candidate nominated in a major party to run for president, have all shaped American society toward a more equal, empowering, and uplifting place for women (CITATION FOR DECLINE OF THE DATE). These infact have also changed the dating world, especially in college. The thought of students graduating with a degree AND a significant other
Students are not having more sex than students before them, but rather sexual activity is more likely to occur outside of monogamous, committed relationships (rather, a hook-up). Both hooking up and dating provide opportunities for sexual experimentation and activity, but hookups emphasis sexual activity with “no strings attached”, or no emotional attachment. A study carried out by BLANK, analyzes the attitudes towards casual sex by an individual’s background characteristics and college peer group- this attitude is also analyzed for suggestion of a double standard between men and women of similar sexual