college students today "hook up" no more than students from the 80's

[Julius Skrrvin]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=students-today-hook-up-no-more-than-parents-college

College students are no more sexually active these days than they were in the 1980s.

That’s the finding of a recent study by University of Portland sociologist Martin Monto, who says that the media’s portrayal of a new and pervasive “hookup culture” on college campuses is misleading.

Monto examined the responses of 1,800 18- to 25-year-olds who had completed at least one year of college. He compared a first group of responses, taken as part of the General Social Survey between 1988-1996, with a second group who answered the same questions on a survey taken between 2002 and 2010.

College students from the contemporary or “hookup” era did not report having more frequent sex or more sexual partners during the past year than undergraduates from the earlier era, says Monto, who presented the findings at a meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City on August 13. They also did not report having more sexual partners since turning 18.

Among the first cohort, 65.2 percent reported having sex weekly or more often in the past year, compared with 59.3 percent from the second, more recent, cohort. Additionally, 31.9 percent of the earlier cohort said they had more than one sexual partner in the past year, compared with 31.6 percent of the 2002–10 group. “College students overestimate the degree to which their peers are hooking up,” Monto says. “It feels like something new, but they might be surprised to know the actual frequency of sex, the number of sexual partners, etc. don’t appear to have increased from their parents’ generation.”

What has changed, Monto notes, is the language college students use to describe sexual behavior. In a search of eight scholarly social science databases, he discovered that the term “hookup” and its variants (“hook-up,” “hooking up,” etcetera) did not gain popularity until 2006. But, as his results imply, a change in language about behavior does not necessarily imply a change in that behavior.

New York University sociologist Robert Max Jackson, who was not affiliated with the study, says he was not surprised by its findings. Students might be talking more openly about sex than they were in the past, he says, but that doesn’t mean they’re having more of it. “Overall, you have a real sense in talking with students that there is a cultural change that has taken place,” he says, “but it is not a change that is about people having more sex. It really is a change in the way that people talk about it.”

 

[Serious]

technology...

Not to mention, my dad has some stories about "hooking up".

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

technology...

Can also get in the way of shyt. Bytches are crazy about that shyt, with social media and texting and all that. In the 80's all your dad had to do was meet some chick and call her, maybe take her on a date or to a partyand fukk her and maybe end up dating her. Now of course, you can still do that, but there's a little more going on here. You on the other hand are riding a bunch of different lanes on some Jay-Z dating shyt. the game changed

 

[Serious]

Can also get in the way of shyt. Bytches are crazy about that shyt, with social media and texting and all that. In the 80's all your dad had to do was meet some chick and call her, maybe take her on a date or to a partyand fukk her and maybe end up dating her. Now of course, you can still do that, but there's a little more going on here. You on the other hand are riding a bunch of different lanes on some Jay-Z dating shyt. the game changed

I don't think game has really changed. I just think technology has created an illusion where it happens more often because more people getting caught. But in some ways it's easier to find a date, through a message on fb, twitter, the-coli ( *cough*)

I'm sure @VictorVonDoom can elaborate more on dating as a teenager / young adult before the emergence of "smart phones". People were still doing dirt, and I'm sure word got around the but the ability to actually capture the incident on camera, along with idiots self incriminating themselves through social media has definitely thrown an interesting spin on the game...

Not to mention, there were always be socially awkward from both sexes, who aren't really hooking up. This happened in the past, and it sure is happening now

@ the countless threads about backpages escorts in TLR....

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Before the internet as we know it, there was AOL. Before AOL there was having the courage to walk up to a young lady to say high and ask for her phone number that you wrote down on a small piece of paper that was then transferred to 1 big master list piece of paper that you would hurt someone over if they damaged it. It was like a holy scroll of numbers. The more numbers you had at that time i guess the cooler you felt. Numbers numbers i got her number friend. Wow. Different times. Sad that nowadays we have friends that can only talk to women on the internet and have absolutely no ability to approach a stranger for friendship. This is what technosorcery does. Separates friends from reality.

Its so demonic, friends.

 

[cleanface coney]

im sure the hippies did the most fukkin

plus they aint have to worry about diseases and a broad automatically having like 5 nikkas lined up