Our generation is the first generation where it is considered acceptable to sleep around with a different guy every week. Sure, they might get called a “slut” or “whore” but the depressing truth is most of them are okay with it because the ones calling them that are just as guilty as the person being labeled. For this reason, it seems as if girls do not care if they are getting called provocative names. Personally, females need to hold themselves to a higher self-worth, which talks “about who you are, not about what you do” (Firestone). Incidentally, numerous people believe that hook-up culture is just involved with college students, unfortunately hook-up culture is starting at a younger age. In addition, more and more high schoolers are getting
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Not only has the media had an effect on hook up culture, it is also portraying it inaccurately. First off, songs now more than ever have many lyrics involving hook-ups and uncommitted sex linked to a physical and enjoyable feeling of emotion. Next, books and plots of movies are changing the way we perceive hookup culture today. For example, “The 2009 film "Hooking Up," details the chaotic romantic and sexual lives of adolescent characters.” Another film, "No Strings Attached," released in 2011, features two friends negotiating a sexual, yet nonromantic, component of their relationship (Garcia). With relationships like this being on the rise, most of today’s young adults report they have experienced some form of casual sex. Lastly, “The most recent data suggest that between 60 percent and 80 percent of North American college students have had some sort of hook-up experience.” “This is consistent with the view of emerging adulthood (typical college age) as a period of developmental transition”, exploring and internalizing sexuality and romantic intimacy, now including hookups (Stinson). Although most people associate the hook up culture with college students alone, research has also been done on teenagers 12-21 years old. The results were almost disturbing, “70 percent of adolescents reported having uncommitted sex within the last year” (Grello). This portrayal of the media ruins the romance of a
Not only has the media had an effect on hook up culture, it is also portraying it inaccurately. First off, songs now more than ever have many lyrics involving hook-ups and uncommitted sex linked to a physical and enjoyable feeling of emotion. Next, books and plots of movies are changing the way we perceive hookup culture today. For example, “The 2009 film "Hooking Up," details the chaotic romantic and sexual lives of adolescent characters.” Another film, "No Strings Attached," released in 2011, features two friends negotiating a sexual, yet nonromantic, component of their relationship (Garcia). With relationships like this being on the rise, most of today’s young adults report they have experienced some form of casual sex. Lastly, “The most recent data suggest that between 60 percent and 80 percent of North American college students have had some sort of hook-up experience.” “This is consistent with the view of emerging adulthood (typical college age) as a period of developmental transition”, exploring and internalizing sexuality and romantic intimacy, now including hookups (Stinson). Although most people associate the hook up culture with college students alone, research has also been done on teenagers 12-21 years old. The results were almost disturbing, “70 percent of adolescents reported having uncommitted sex within the last year” (Grello). This portrayal of the media ruins the romance of a