The Pros And Cons Of Hooking Up

“Hooking up” has definitions ranging from simply kissing or making out to vaginal, oral, or anal sex with no commitment or feelings attached (Marganski & Fauth). The practice of hooking up has become much more prevalent since the 1920’s when they first started to become more frequent as kids were starting to go on dates out from under their parents’ watchful eye. In the 1960’s adults became more liberated with the growing availability of birth control and rise of feminism (Garcia, et. al). Today, the rise of “dating” apps like Tinder and Bumble, have increased the acceptance of hooking up (Schumaker). The ranges of people on college campuses who have had an experience of hooking up ranges from forty to eighty-one percent with women’s …show more content…
I never really understood the point of being with someone sexually that you could not see yourself with in the future. Now that I am older though, I see some of the possible benefits from it, but the risks still outweigh them. The possibility of contracting a sexually transmitted disease while hooking up is obviously much greater than being in a monogamous relationship. It is even greater since people are much more relaxed about their use of condoms while hooking up. The ability to have a brief moment of (hopeful) sexual satisfaction would be completely destroyed for me if my partner did not, or refused, to use a condom. The increased chance of contracting a disease or getting pregnant would negate any good feelings the hook up might offer to me. I do not consider it to be taboo as some people would, but it is not something that I would choose to engage in if I was not in a monogamous relationship. I would have trouble trusting and feeling close enough to someone I just met to have any physical contact with them. If I were to “hook up” I would more likely be in a friends with benefits type relationship than a one and done as some people