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.
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).
Every criminal justice agency has their own mission statement or operational philosophy and some have Social Equity concepts, while others do not. First is the operational philosophy of the Knoxville Police Department, where I have been employed for the last eighteen years. It embodies Social Equity and states, “(1.) Do the right thing; (2.) Do your best every day; and (3) Treat others the way you want to be treated”
The article Boys on the Side by Hanna Rosin discusses the “hookup” culture that has largely replaced dating. Young women are behaving like frat boys, and no one is guarding the virtues of honor, chivalry, and everlasting love (Rosin 38). Girl land a book by Caitlin Flanagan discusses sexual culture and how in earlier times, fathers protect their daughter’s innocence and girls understood their roles to also protect themselves. The central argument is that women have effectively been duped by a sexual revolution that persuaded them to trade away the protections of and from young men (Rosin 38).
Amy Schaltes effortlessly argues that sex, one of life’s most trivial issues, could be less difficult to handle if parents embraced their children’s natural maturation, instead of shying away from it. Schaltes’s “The Sleepover Question” is informative, and gets the audience thinking. Why is teen sex so controversial? Would talking about it remove the stigma from consensual teenage sex? Further, should the stigma be removed?
Ebony Pressley Ms.Johnson English Comp 3/13/23 If hooking up was to become the new disease of this generation, there would be no cure for it. Author and Writer Donna Freitas effectively demonstrates why hooking up is unhealthy in her article "Time to stop hooking up. (You know you want to)" using the rhetorical appeal of facts and analysis to get her point across. Donna uses strategies such as exemplification, compare and contrast, and also cause and effect analysis to explain her argument effectively on how hooking up has long-term effects on society whether they are known or unknown.
The “Outsiders” made me think about the rules that groups give us are strongly founded on what they see as defiance. It made me think that some rules are given within a group are not remotely necessary and that we as a society are to blame for what is deemed as “socially acceptable”. Deviants may not even be actually deviants but that’s what they are labeled by society because they think, what the deviant did was wrong, which could be made up by what society thinks is okay behavior. The relation to this reading and the sociology course shows how society controls us and how they consider we should act. It reminded me of how society tells us as women that showing off our body parts is deemed as trashy and not lady like, but men can do so without
Prof. Mckinnie ENC 1102-80608 18 September 2017 The Slippery-Slope of the Sleepover Question In the passage “The Sleepover Question” on page 245, Amy Schalet writes about teen sex and parents acceptance of it. Schalet makes her argument seem effective with her use of Ethos, Pathos, and logos. However, her use of fallacies makes her argument not credible and not effective.
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
In the short story “Lust,” Susan Minot creates a sense of non-fiction literature through Minot’s narrator nonchalantly expounding upon her sexual history. While the story’s repetitiveness seems to beat a dead horse, Minot uses this style of disjointed paragraphs to show a deeper meaning on the effects of an overload of sex. These sexual experiences, all effecting this promiscuous teenager, present the idea that “lusting” and even this thirst of sexual partners illustrates the notorious and seemingly normal effects that frequent relationships have on young adolescent women. Women such as our no name main character who has “messed around” with at least fifteen different sexual partners on more than one occasion. This extremely descriptive, repetitive,
Inside and beyond the myth and the social impact of the subject as One or Substance. Alan H. Goldman’s essay ‘Plain Sex’ is a central contribution to the academic debate about sex within the analytic area, which has been developing since the second half of the ‘90s in Western countries. Goldman’s purpose is encouraging debate on the concept of sex without moral, social and cultural implications or superstitious superstructures. He attempts to define “sexual desire” and “sexual activity” in its simplest terms, by discovering the common factor of all sexual events, i.e. “the desire for physical contact with another person’s body and for the pleasure which such contact produces; sexual activity is activity which tends to fulfill such desire of the agent” (Goldman, A., 1977, p 40).
For Goodness Sex, by Al Vernacchio, is a welcome relief from the two previous books; Girls & Sex and Man Interrupted, as the focus is about sexuality as a whole; gender, sexual orientation, etc., rather than on the culture of females and males. In a chapter titled “Gender Myths,” Vernacchio (2014) asks the question, “male and female, is that all there is” (Vernacchio, A., p. 112, 2014)? In teaching his class on Sexuality and Society, Vernacchio asks these questions and questions similar, demonstrating that he takes into consideration that there are feelings at stake and keeps in mind the human aspect of sex and sexuality as he is intentionally behind challenging students to foresee and develop their sense of values about sex, instead of constantly being “in the moment.”
The article Gender and the Meaning and Experience of Virginity Loss in the Contemporary United States suggests, “Young women, while more permissive than in previous decades, continued to value virginity and predicate sexual activity on love and committed romantic relationship, whereas young men continued to express disdain for virginity, engage in sexual activity primarily out of curiosity and desire for physical and welcome opportunities for casual sex” (Carpenter 1). This depicts the need for sexual activity rather than a romantic relationship by men and why they may look at women as sexual objects rather than ordinary
Couples left and right in high school partake in premarital sex. In addition, the introduction of 'the hook-up ' has made its way into mainstream culture. A hook-up consists of two people engaging in sexual acts, despite zero emotional or social
One common recreational activity that is programmed to promote “happiness”, and is encouraged at a very young age, is sexual promiscuity. When humans in the “New World Society” are children, they are kept in a different type of school than children are today. A school where they are conditioned to act like their social class, learn their job, and to be raised; since there are no such things as families. Children would “discover each other” at “recess” through erotic foreplay. “‘The nurse shrugged her shoulders.
