Rhetorical Analysis Of Donna Freitas 'Time To Stop Hooking Up Now'

An article written in The Christian Science Monitor greatly condemns the hookup culture saying students are forced to engage in sex without commitment because they believe that is what everyone else around them is doing (Christian Science, 2013). While they did note that in a survey they conducted, less college students are participating in casual sex the article states this should be freeing to students who believe they have to participate or else they are wrong (Christian Science, 2013). The final argument this article makes is that there is a link between casual sex and stress on

According to a research survey by UniSA’s Emeritus Professor Bruce Johnson, 77% of girls and 74% of boys cited their high school sexual education lessons as their number one source of information on sexuality and relationships, with friends being cited as their second most likely source. Such a large number of Australian teenagers count and rely on their PDHPE classes to teach them such paramount lessons about such an important topic. This leads us to assume that, if such a considerable percentage of high school students rely on these lessons for their sexual education, they must be learning everything they desire to know from these lessons. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Within the same research survey, it was discovered that there were many subjects students wished were taught more in depth. 52% of girls wanted more

The general statement made by the author, Anna Quindlen, in her work Getting Involved, is that it is vital for human beings to be apathetic, and care for one another. More specifically, the author argues that isolating oneself from local conflict will not resolve any issues. She writes, “Neighbors heard screams and shouts and the unmistakable sound of something hitting a human being…But nothing was really done until…[the] little girl was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.” In this passage, the author is suggesting that being a bystander is detrimental and can lead to severe, preventable outcomes. In conclusion, the author’s belief is a topic that need to be spoken upon more often, the society is in desperate need of compassion

Free-and-easy sex prides itself on being commitment free, no emotional ties attached. Today, this idea of leaving all emotions at the door is the supposedly, sophisticated choice on campus. It is now well understood that traditional dating in college has mostly gone the way of the landline, replaced by “hooking up”- an ambiguous term that can signify anything from making out to oral sex to intercourse - all complete without the emotional entanglement of a real relationship. As times have changed, students begin to view a relationship as “too time consuming” and something that no longer takes priority amongst their busy, high achieving schedules. However, hooking up threatens the sexual, physical, and psychological health of college-age youth. Today’s youth may want to think twice before engaging in the prevalent hook-up culture. Despite the popularity of positive feelings, hookups can include negative outcomes including emotional and psychological injury, and even more concerning consequences such as unintended rape. In order to protect our generation, and more specifically our women, society must acknowledge the detrimental effects of a hook up culture to create a greater understanding surrounding this risky sexual behavior and ensure a more powerful, positive presence for women in our society. The combination of a society seeped in rape culture and an alcohol infused hookup culture creates a compromising sexual environment where women have limited control, opening the

From this, Kelly concludes that these elements “offer only the perception of freedom” (72). Hookup culture places a burden upon students. The sexist nature of this culture puts women at a disadvantage; and this can be extremely harmful in developmental years.

The thing is, it is not like all university students are giving up on relationships to sleep around, 69% of the students Paula England surveyed had been in a relationship for at least six months. And most of the students that had been having casual sex were not doing so with people they did not know, but friends or acquaintances.

For our final book, I read American Hookup by Lisa Wade. In the book, Wade shines a light on the prominent hookup culture in universities today. From exploring changing dynamic from ‘calling’ to hook up culture, the experiences of enthusiasts that participate in hookup culture, and the reality for those who decide not to participate in hookup culture. In the end, Wade make several conclusions on the process of hookup culture like the participant is typically drunk or under the influence of some type of drug, girls and guys both look at their opinions of their friends when deciding whether or not to hook up, and that it’s most important be having ‘fun’ while sticking to the many unspoken rules of hookup culture.

Unfortunately, this scenario happens more often than it really should with college students. In the article “Hooking Up” by Jenifer Kunz, she tells us that since the 1980’s people

Hooking up has become an increasingly studied culture by many sociologists around the country. These studies have been done to understand the shift from the old culture of dating to the new culture of hooking up that we experience now. Many people find it interesting that the kids of our generation have become so sexualized and carefree compared to the college days of our parents. Many people wonder how we got to this point and how the dynamics of hookups work, and why we continue to go on with them even sometimes at cost of our mental and physical help. One of these people was Kathleen A. Bogle, who wrote an entire book on the subject called, Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus, which is the focal point of this essay.

A key point I found interesting in this article is how one would describe the meaning of “hooking-up”. Through Freitas’ studies, she came to the conclusion “that a hook-up is an sexually intimate activity” (13). She also noted how this could mean a simple kiss or making out to having

College students in the United States frequently engage in risky behavior which puts them on the radar for health issues. A popular activity among these college students is “hooking up” with friends, acquaintances or even strangers. “Hooking up” is defined as a sexual encounter which may or may not involve sexual intercourse, usually happening on only one occasion between two people who are strangers or brief acquaintances (Paul, 2000). “Hooking up” allows these individuals to experience sexual intimacy without investing the time and energy into a committed relationship. This becomes especially perilous behavior when alcohol or drugs are involved. The most common result of engaging in unsafe sex with a stranger is acquiring a sexually

Hooking Up, Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus drew my attention to the elaborate structure underlying hookups. This is a part of college that I have come to take for granted, something that fazed me upon first encountering it, but has been normalized in my way of thinking. Though I was aware that there were inequalities underlying the script, I was not aware of its historical progression, how complex it is, and its lasting impact. Reading about the sex differences in college was not something I have thought about before specifically, even though it is a large portion of my life. Understanding the double standards that exist and are perpetuated by the college environment, I find, is healthy as a college student. Self-awareness is important.

Teenage sexual activity has sparked an outcry within the nation. With such activity comes a high price. Studies have shown that there has been a significant rise in the number of children with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), emotional and psychological problems, and out-of-wedlock childbearing. Sex has always been discussed publically by the media, television shows, music and occasionally by parents and teachers in educational context. Teens hear them, and as the saying goes, “monkey see, monkey do”, they are tempted to experiment with it. Therefore, it is important for every teenager to be aware of the outcome associated with premature-sex. If students are educated about the impact of

The Sexual Revolution changed the way society viewed sex and what role it plays in lives and relationships. Beginning in the 1960s sexual relationships changed and have continued to morph over the decades, and this change has aided in the development of the “Hook-Up” culture. Hooking up greatly impacts young adults and their development and practice of cornerstone relationship skills. Negative relationship skills are being fostered by hooking up and are causing obstacles for long term relationships. The practice of positive life and romantic skills by men and women are hindered by hooking up, because instead of learning skills for marriage, like mutual trust and intimacy, hook ups nurture bad skills and overrule helpful dating practices. Marriage is wounded by hooking up because hook ups do not foster necessary practices for long-term relationships, like mutual trust and intimacy. This paper argues that long term relationships are undermined by the “Hook Up” culture because hooking up promotes distrust, doubt, fear, a loss of vulnerability, and hurts both partners’ hearts, minds, and souls; these skills create an inability to trust, be intimate, and hence undercut the formation of long-term relationships.

Fun sex is healthy sex, Why isn’t that in the curriculum, written by Lucia O’Sullivan, a professor of Psychology, at the University of New Brunswick discuss how children and young adults in today's society are taught rather not to have sex and the dangers that are related to sex instead of how to have and how to create a safe environment for sex to occur. O'Sullivan goes into depth about the dangers of avoiding proper sexual education and how avoiding the subject, and linking the topic of sex to shame is actually hurting young adults more than helping them. In the article, O’Sullivan makes a very strong and compelling argument as she lays down the truth with very raw and brutally honest. In her article, O’Sullivan includes information from interviews with young adults, facts, and statistics from world-class organizations such as The World Health Organization and The United Nations as well as information found in her own and her colleague's research at the University of New Brunswick. O’Sullivan’s article is highly effective and convincing as she not only outlines the problems within sexual education but rather she goes a step further and compares it to the comprehensive education that children in European countries receive. O’Sullivan also outlines how the problems of avoiding proper sexual education occur, and what secondary problems arise from the lack of open conversations regarding sex such as the increased risk of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea. Moreover, O’Sullivan