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Hookups may be characterized as a form of “casual sex” or “uncommitted sexual encounter.” Hatfield, Hutchison, Bensman, Young, and Rapson (in press) define casual sex as “outside of a ‘formal’ relationship (dating, marriage, etc.), without a ‘traditional’ reason (such as love, procreation, or commitment) for doing so” (p. 3).
- Welcome to ‘Ce Corner'
- A Cultural Revolution
- Affective Responses to Hooking Up
- Hook-Up Regret
- Hook-Up Culture and Mental Health
- Hook-Up Culture and Sexual Risk
- Sex Differences in Hook-Up Behaviors
- Conclusion
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Hookups — defined in this article as brief uncommitted sexual encounters between individuals who are not romantic partners or dating each other — have emerged from more general social shifts taking place during the last century. Hookups began to become more frequent in the 1920s, with the upsurge of automobiles and novel entertainment, such as movi...
On average, both men and women appear to have higher positive affect than negative affect after a hookup. In one study, among participants who were asked to characterize the morning after a hookup, 82 percent of men and 57 percent of women were generally glad they had done it (Garcia & Reiber, 2008). The gap between men and women is notable and dem...
A number of studies have looked at regret with respect to hookups and have documented the negative feelings men and women may feel after casual sex. In a large Web-based study of 1,468 undergraduate students, participants reported a variety of consequences: 27.1 percent felt embarrassed, 24.7 percent reported emotional difficulties, 20.8 percent ex...
An individual history of hook-up behavior has been associated with a variety of mental health factors. In a study of 394 young adults followed across a university semester, those with more depressive symptoms and greater feelings of loneliness who engaged in penetrative sex hookups subsequently reported a reduction in both depressive symptoms and f...
Despite the prevalence of positive feelings, hookups can include negative outcomes, such as emotional and psychological injury, sexual violence, sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy. Despite those risks, a qualitative study of 71 college students (39 women and 32 men) found that nearly half of participants were not concerned abo...
Some research has considered the interactions of sex and individual differences in predicting hook-up behavior. The Mating Intelligence Scale, designed to measure an individual's cognitive abilities in the evolutionary domain of mating (see Geher & Kaufman, 2011), was used to assess hook-up behavior in a sample of 132 college students. Young men hi...
Uncommitted sex, now being explored across a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives, is best understood as a biopsychosocial phenomenon. Evidence suggests that both pleasure and reproductive motives may influence these sexual patterns, as seen in participants' reactions following uncommitted sex. Further, the findings that a majority o...
Mar 1, 2021 · We examine eight potential drivers of the decline in casual sexual behavior among young adults, reflecting trends in employment, earnings, financial debt load, coresidence with parents, use of electronic media, television watching, computer video gaming, and alcohol consumption.
- Scott J. South, Lei Lei
- 2021
May 5, 2015 · American adults in the 2010s (vs. the late 1980s) reported having sex with more partners and were more likely to have had sex with a casual date or pickup or an acquaintance in the last year. However, shifts in sexual attitudes and behaviors were nearly absent among Black Americans.
- Jean M. Twenge, Ryne A. Sherman, Brooke E. Wells
- 2015
May 2, 2022 · In general, casual sex is not a strong predictor of life outcome. American culture has a complex relationship with casual sex. Historically frowned upon, particularly for women, it has become...
May 2, 2022 · Key points. Historically frowned upon, casual sex has become an acceptable sexual choice. Those who partake in casual sex do not share the same profile and are not fated toward similar futures...
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