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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hookup culture has been around for a long time. It was going on in the 80's and 90's. It is not helping young adults to mature. If anything, it is stunting them emotionally. The work hard/party hard mentality only benefits men. The hookup culture would not be going on if college kids were not getting wasted every weekend. Getting drunk and having sex does not help you grow up. It just prolongs  a self centered and an immature way of relating to people. Why are people delaying marriage? Because they don't care enough about members of the opposite sex. There is no love and respect if you can just get drunk and have sex. If a college guy is so emotionally delayed he can't imagine caring about a woman sober then what good are these young men to women anyway? College women would be better off learning the art of maturbation so they don't have to deal with drunk guys looking to use them, risk getting pregnant, an STD, or a bad reputation. College women are doing great at every other aspect in their lives except having meaningful relationships with guys. These college boys are useless to college women.[/quote]

Even so, I wasn't that way -- I was a romantic -- and I found a nice guy in that period. The hookups get the press because they seem sexier than supposedly boring relationships. Just as then, now there are still nice people finding each other. People are still getting married, at least according to the endless supply of marriage reality TV shows. Nice people will always manage to find each other.[/quote]

+1. If the NY Times wants to sell copies of the Sunday edition, it isn't going to do a feature story on PP and me. If you go to the Huffington Post article that was linked to above, a survey showed that something like 1/4 or 1/3 of college kids were virgins at graduation and the majority of Harvard kids had 2-3 partners by graduation. [/quote]

Good point. The Huff Post article also said that "only 1 in 10 people in college said they had had casual sex in college, with men being twice as likely as women to have such an encounter."[/quote]

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