Sexy times in college.

According to Bogle’s study “Men, Women and the Sexual Double Standard”, Millennials are part of what is termed the ‘hookup culture’. I think this is a horrible term and don’t believe it true at all. I want to talk about something I did not get to mention in any of my essays which is how I believe sex and hooking up in college has been very similar throughout the years but it is only now with the ridiculous obsession with social media that we hear all about it.

Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, etc. All these are an outlet for obsessive people to post every detail of their lived for people to see and ‘like’. Of course it seems like everyone is a sex-depraved person when all you see online are pictures of duck-faced freshmen girls and Jersey shore bros with no shirts on and selfies being taken at every single location they go to.

Bogle says “Freshman year is a time for hookups” and explains that men and women are different on modern campuses in terms of the way they look at each other sexually/romantically. I agree that in freshman year an attitude of exploration and freedom reigns and so people tend to be more freed up and ‘enjoying’ the present, not so much thinking about the future. But I don’t believe there is much difference between men and women here but the difference seems to be between agre groups. Seniors around me now seem desperately scrambling for a relationship and something meaningful and casual hookups have decreased by 400% in comparison to our first year at NYU. I believe the difference Bogel is talking about is more reflected in seniors vs. freshmen than men vs. women.