The Rise of Infidelity In today’s hookup culture, the idea of being disloyal and dishonest is at an all-time high. This is not to say that social media is causing this new ideology, but it certainly sheds light on this growing trend. It seems as though more and more people are believing it acceptable to cheat or be disloyal to their partner. Hookup and throwaway culture seem to have risen around the same time that this became common, and it also stems from an openness and increase in sexual activity in the younger generations. People do not value sex as something that is important to a relationship, instead doing it just for the sake of having fun. Temptations and availability of sex is breaking relationships, men and women alike are not
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Twitter especially, where there are tweets and videos of this type of content every few seconds that you scroll. Now this is not to say that cheating and disloyalty are at astronomical rates and every relationship is doomed to encounter infidelity. However, studies have shown that the rate is increasing slowly but steadily. With married couples in a study by Choi, Catania, and Dolcini’s (1994), only 3% of the married sample had an extramarital affair in the previous 12 months before the survey. Then, in just 7 years another study by Atkins, Baucom, & Jacobson 2001, showed that rates had gone up to 13%. While usually not this exponential, it is quite an interesting increase. However, the normal is a slight increase for a few years, then a slight decrease, and once again a slow increase. This proves that even though not by HUGE amounts, cheating and infidelity, in this case specifically in the highest form of a relationship, marriage, is increasing. Eventually, I fear that there will be too large of a number for this, and people will have trouble finding someone they can trust, and find it hard to let their guard …show more content…
We cannot go anywhere these days without seeing or hearing something sexual. It is being publicized and I believe it is desensitizing people and leading to less care or thought about monogamous relationships. Recently, the “hookup culture” has been looming overhead of most people. We hear that term a lot, but almost no evidence is given to support it. In fact, some researchers make bold claims stating that practices such as these have started decreasing. Due to no one knowing the facts, that would be just as easy to believe. Fortunately, there are plenty of studies supporting a hookup culture is taking place. In the early 1970s, 29% of people in a study believe premarital sex wasn’t wrong. It went to 42% for the 80s and through the 90’s. By today’s date, 55% now believe pre-marital sex is okay (Twenge, Sherman, Wells, 2015). Finally, you can place statistics with those claims that have been so
Twitter especially, where there are tweets and videos of this type of content every few seconds that you scroll. Now this is not to say that cheating and disloyalty are at astronomical rates and every relationship is doomed to encounter infidelity. However, studies have shown that the rate is increasing slowly but steadily. With married couples in a study by Choi, Catania, and Dolcini’s (1994), only 3% of the married sample had an extramarital affair in the previous 12 months before the survey. Then, in just 7 years another study by Atkins, Baucom, & Jacobson 2001, showed that rates had gone up to 13%. While usually not this exponential, it is quite an interesting increase. However, the normal is a slight increase for a few years, then a slight decrease, and once again a slow increase. This proves that even though not by HUGE amounts, cheating and infidelity, in this case specifically in the highest form of a relationship, marriage, is increasing. Eventually, I fear that there will be too large of a number for this, and people will have trouble finding someone they can trust, and find it hard to let their guard …show more content…
We cannot go anywhere these days without seeing or hearing something sexual. It is being publicized and I believe it is desensitizing people and leading to less care or thought about monogamous relationships. Recently, the “hookup culture” has been looming overhead of most people. We hear that term a lot, but almost no evidence is given to support it. In fact, some researchers make bold claims stating that practices such as these have started decreasing. Due to no one knowing the facts, that would be just as easy to believe. Fortunately, there are plenty of studies supporting a hookup culture is taking place. In the early 1970s, 29% of people in a study believe premarital sex wasn’t wrong. It went to 42% for the 80s and through the 90’s. By today’s date, 55% now believe pre-marital sex is okay (Twenge, Sherman, Wells, 2015). Finally, you can place statistics with those claims that have been so