The Effects Of Sexual Behavior On College Students

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

In any given society, at any given moment in history, people become sexual in the same way they become everything else…without much reflection. They pick up directions from their social environment. They acquire and assemble meanings, skills and values from the people around them. Their critical choices are often made by going along and drifting. People learn when they are quite young and few of the things they are expected to be, and continue slowly to accumulate a belief in who they are and ought to be throughout the rest of their childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Sexual conduct is learned in the same ways and through the same processes; it's acquired and assembled in human interaction, judged and performed in specific cultural

Unlike sex, the history of sexuality is dependant upon society and limited by its language in order to be defined and understood.

Sex. It is everywhere. We see in television shows. In magazines. On the Internet. But sex is still seen as a taboo subject in our society. I believe that being educated about sexuality is vitally important to one health. Understanding one’s body and how it impacts your life. To understand how your beliefs about sexuality and sex have developed one needs to look back over the years and how your beliefs were engrained in your life. This essay will be based on my reflection by looking back on my sexual history on how and what have significantly impacted my development of sexuality. The focus will be on my reflection of answering the sexual history questions and how I have changed and developed over the years. It is important to analyze and reflect to understand how I came to be today, that the past has created my ideas and beliefs about sex and sexuality that have shaped me.

These facts taken directly from students support her efforts to prove how not all students are enjoying an unemotional, unattached sex life which appeals to the readers pathos. The detail placed into developing facts allow the reader to understand how common others share their same beliefs. Since so many students are not just looking for one-night stands the reader can begin to make a logical conclusion that maybe there is hope for them. The delivery on the topic allows her to accomplish her goal near the middle of the article which inspires the reader to not conform to social pressures.

Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, and Paula England explain that millennials are not hooking up more than baby boomers were when they were in their 20s, it is just that more attention has been drawn to casual sex. Paula England surveyed 14,000 students from 19 different colleges and universities about their sex lives and only 72% of students had hooked by their senior year of college. 80% of those men and women had had less than one sexual encounter per semester. These statistics are quite different from what we are led to think about today’s twentysomethings.

Human sexuality is a common phrase for all, and anything, pertaining to the feelings and behaviors of sex for the human race. Sexuality has been a topic that has been discussed and studied for as far back as 1000 years B.C. and is still being studied today. As the discussion of sexuality has progressed through history, theories have been created based on research and experiments that scholars have implemented, based on their own perceptions of human behavior. Out of the many theories that pose to explain sexual behavior, Sexuality Now explained ten that are seemed to be the most overlapped, and built off of theories. Of these theories, two that were discussed in the text were the behavioral and sociological theory. These two theories cover some of the basic ideas of what could possibly influence a person’s sexuality.

According to Koumans et. al (2005), there have not been any studies conducted on STD education or services provided by higher education institutions here in the U.S. However, several studies demonstrate that misinformation and lack of educational resources contribute to risky sexual behavior which can lead to STDs (Wyatt & Oswalt, 2014).Therefore, it is imperative that universities and colleges find ways to increase awareness of sexual health services available for students on campus.

Sexuality is a quagmire of ambiguity and frustration, especially during adolescence. The unpredictable hormonal ups and downs of puberty are difficult enough, without the societal pressures of abstinence versus promiscuity. The double standard of boys sowing their wild oats and slut shaming are still as prevalent today as they were in the 1950’s.

It’s back to school time and while most people don’t necessarily want to think about it, STD’s are very prevalent among college students. Partying and social engagements, are a big pastime and stress-reliever for many college students, which sometimes result in sexual encounters than can unfortunately, end with one or both parties contracting an STI. While that should not deter students from enjoying themselves, they still need to know about and be safe in regards to sexual encounters during their college career.

Author Donna Frietas took interest in the hookup culture trending on college campuses after students of hers confessed ambivalence towards casual sexual encounters. From these conversations Frietas (2008) found that many of these encounters weren’t always consensual or enjoyable. However, students still felt pressured to participate in these acts (p. 127-128). She was curious to learn the role religion and spirituality played in the intimate lives of college students. In 2008 Frietas published Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America’s College Campuses arguing that promiscuity is not a healthy way to exploring one’s sexuality. She found that this “hook-up culture” emerging at universities consisted of destructive behaviors revolving

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

Throughout history, definitions of sexuality within a culture are created and then changed time after time. During these changes, we have seen the impact and power one individual or group can have over others. In the Late Nineteenth Century into the Early Twentieth Century, we see multiple groups of people and or authorities taking control over the idea of sex and how they believe society is being impacted by sex. At this point in time, society had groups of people who believed they had the power to control how society as whole viewed and acted upon sex. Those particular groups and ideas changed many lives and the overall definition of sexuality within that culture.

Throughout history it is evident that human sexuality changes do to religious, governmental and societal influences. The perception of human sexuality has gone through many changes such as being very open and unlabeled activity; to being very “conservative” and a topic that shouldn’t be talked about in public or at all. In any case, human sexuality has always been a topic of interest because humans are sexual beings who want to understand the consciousness of themselves as male or female and see their personal response when encountered in erotic experiences with other individuals. Unlike many other species whose sexual force is strictly for reproduction, human’s sexual drive seems to be driven by many factors that intertwine with each other which leads to very different outcomes. Do to these obscure human emotions and personal gratification, sex is always shown every culture’s art, literature, social norms, and laws.