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In the Hookup Culture area I want to improve the statistics behind the likelihood of couple hooking up in college. A majority of the sources are from past years and aren't as relevant as the present times

I also want to investigate and elaborate more on the studies demonstrating how hookups are affected by alcohol consumption/emotions.~~~~

Sources: Freitas, Donna The End of Sex : How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy New York: Basic Books, 2013. Print.

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Relationships

For adolescents, sex and relationships have been decoupled.

Experts worry that if society disconnects intimate sexual behavior and emotional connection that teens who hook up will have trouble forming relationships later in life.^[23][24][25]

Journalist Sabrina Weill asserts that "casual teen attitudes toward sex — particularly oral sex — reflect their confusion about what is normal behavior," and adds that they "are facing an intimacy crisis that could haunt them in future relationships. 'When teenagers fool around before they're ready or have a very casual attitude toward sex, they proceed toward adulthood with a lack of understanding about intimacy.'"^[24]

Boys in high school are just as likely as girls to want their hookup partner to become someone they date.^[18] A friends with benefits relationship is "always a disaster for somebody," according to Drew Pinsky. "We're human beings, we develop feelings, and somebody always gets hurt as a result."^[26]

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College

At colleges, hookups are common between students at parties, in dormitories and fraternity houses, at surrounding bars and clubs, and at popular student vacation destinations. For example, a study of Canadian college students who planned to hook up while on spring break showed that 61% of men and 34% of women had sex within a day of meeting their partner.^[10]

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The trend toward marrying later may be what is fueling the hookup scene on college campuses At colleges, hookups are common between students at parties, in dormitories and fraternity houses, at surrounding bars and clubs, and at popular student vacation destinations. For example, a study of Canadian college students who planned to hook up while on spring break showed that 61% of men and 34% of women had sex within a day of meeting their partner.^[10]

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Often times, men and women seem to not be on the "same page." According to Bogle, many males believed that females often invested themselves or had an ulterior motive for pursuing a hookup like situation. For instance, when a male student was asked if he felt that women looked for different components in a hookup; his response was that most females generally did not lean towards a "one and done" thing. ~~~~

Relationships

In a hookup culture, young people often have little experience with dating and developing romantic relationships.^[34][35] Students often feel that hookups are the only option, and that their peers do not date, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as fewer students date because they believe their classmates do not believe in dating.^[36] Freitas' study has found that students on these campuses generally feel that the decision about whether or not to be in a relationship is out of their control and that "hookup culture dictated for them that there would be no dating, and that they simply had to endure this reality."^[14]

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Hooking up generally refers to having sex, however, many others indicated that when they say hooking up they are referring to something less than intercourseIn a hookup culture, young people often have little experience with dating and developing romantic relationships.^[34][35] Hooking up is means for experiencing casual sexual encounters, but it is also means for beginning relationships. Students often feel that hookups are the only option, and that their peers do not date, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as fewer students date because they believe their classmates do not believe in dating.

Perceptions of "frat boys" and how this stereotype seems to be the the typical male how only pursues women to have sexual relations. Many female college students explained how the "frat boy" perfectly embodies the persona of a sex driven male.