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Lisa Wade's Book American Hookup Culture

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Hookup culture is defined as, “one that accepts and encourages casual sexual encounters, including one-night stands and other related activity, without necessarily including emotional bonding or long-term commitment” (do i need to cite). It is a culture that dominates college campuses across the country; within the past decade hookup culture has changed as social society shifts. In today's society with the heavy use of social media, everyone has access to anyone's life, which has been proved to increase mental health effects. Social media has highlighted the need to fit in for college students, and according to Lisa Wade’s Book American Hookup social life and hookup culture has become essentially the same thing. How is the college hookup culture …show more content…

In this article, it says “Just because you had a homosexual or heterosexual feelings for as long as you can remember, does not mean you were born a homosexual or heterosexual.” The author says that anyone can look back and think of things they have done forever, she uses the example of craving cheddar cheese. But the author argues that if she had been raised in a different location where cheddar cheese was non-existent, she wouldn't even know what cheddar cheese is and wouldn't want it. While reading this article, one can see that it’s about homosexuality but I think that the reasoning can also apply to my data for it uses a good …show more content…

I instead asked the participants to rate their self esteem in various questions throughout the interview. When asked, “Rate your self esteem on a scale of 1-10 (1 being lowest and 10 highest) for each year that you have been in school” one respondent rated herself starting at an eight freshman year but then lowering down to a five her present year. She also indicated that she chooses not to hook up with people, although she did agree that she was apart of the culture due to being a part of the “bubble” talked about earlier. I interpreted this data in two ways. One, the lack of sexual experience was affecting her self esteem. Talk about articles read and relate it. Two, the lack of sexual experience combined with the idea that everyone is doing

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Lisa Wade's American Hookup is an insightful read that focuses on sexual lives of young adults in America today. Lisa wade book is based on data gathered via her own interviews with college students she had in her classes, and on other results from researchers. The data offers both an interesting and worrying picture of the culture and feelings of college students of today. Much of the author's major purpose to focus on the fun sexual freedom of hooking up and how it goes against gender equality in which there are double standards for men and women. Although the media like to emphasize the crazy sex culture of college students Wade talks about how students today are less happy and healthy than in previous generations.

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In teens, knowing the sex life of peers around you is exciting. The problem lies in how we overexaggerate the sex lives of others. A friend could say they have had sex with a different girl every few weeks yet our minds may associate the person as a “man whore” and start to ask ourselves why the person gets so much attention as compared to oneself. It is the over exaggeration and comparison that makes a friendly discussion of sex so toxic. Hirsch explains the discussion of sex among youth adults exclaiming, “Most students have an exaggerated sense of how much sex others are having… There’s a competitive quality among some peer groups about each member’s sexual standing, where groups seek to advance their own status, but also compete with one another about who is, by some collectively agreed-upon metric, winning” (Hirsch).

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The author of the text stated “Of students who reported hooking up, 41 percent used words such as“regretful," "empty," "miserable," "disgusted," "ashamed," "duped” and even “abused” to describe the experience. An additional 23 percent expressed ambivalence, and the remaining 36 percent said they were more or less “fine” with hookups— “fine” being the most common description. Asserted effectively, the author demonstrates the use of compare and contrast and how the argument is presented. The author compares and contrasts one group of students to another percentage of students and how each was affected by the actions of hooking up. The argument being presented demonstrates how compare and contrasts are being used effectively within her argument showing the negative side of hooking up with different groups of students she had interviewed.

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While the consensus may argue that the hookup culture is only a problem “depending on the person,” Wade has undeniably proven that it is indeed a problem with students more often than not. For the most part, teens don’t recognize the overall issues that the hookup culture endorses. This is important to recognize what the hookup culture is believed to be compared to what it actually is. Fun, freeing, and liberating are often what first year students new to the hookup culture would say and believe it to be (Wade 55). Yet contrary to their beliefs, the hookup culture brings with it consequences such as rape, loneliness, depression, and peer

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