Comments on: Hooking up and campus gender imbalances: A combustible combination http://www.whyboysfail.com/2008/12/13/hooking-up-and-campus-gender-imbalances-a-combustible-combination/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:17:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Susan Walsh http://www.whyboysfail.com/2008/12/13/hooking-up-and-campus-gender-imbalances-a-combustible-combination/#comment-10332 Susan Walsh Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:06:49 +0000 http://www.whyboysfail.com/?p=528#comment-10332 Parents and adults of my generation (boomer) have been extremely slow to wake up to the pervasiveness of the hookup culture. Professor Bogle's book is an excellent piece of work on this topic, and demonstrates how dissatisfied young women are with the status quo. Consider the following statistics (not all from Bogle): • 91% of students reported that hooking up was very common or fairly common on their campuses. • 87% of college students report having hooked up. • 73% of girls wish dating was more common. • 12% of hookups eventually lead to relationships. • 60% of sexually active teenagers will at some point have sex with someone they are not dating. • 49% of students who had intercourse during a hookup never saw the other person again. • 61% of women who say hooking up makes them feel desirable also say it makes them feel awkward. • During hookups, guys have orgasms 44% of the time. Girls have orgasms 19% of the time. • 12% of women say that it is sometimes easier to have sex with a guy they don’t know than to make conversation. What will be the long-term effect on marriage when so few young people are getting any practice at relationships? www.HookingUpSmart.com Parents and adults of my generation (boomer) have been extremely slow to wake up to the pervasiveness of the hookup culture. Professor Bogle’s book is an excellent piece of work on this topic, and demonstrates how dissatisfied young women are with the status quo. Consider the following statistics (not all from Bogle):

• 91% of students reported that hooking up was very common or fairly common on their campuses.
• 87% of college students report having hooked up.
• 73% of girls wish dating was more common.
• 12% of hookups eventually lead to relationships.
• 60% of sexually active teenagers will at some point have sex with someone they are not dating.
• 49% of students who had intercourse during a hookup never saw the other person again.
• 61% of women who say hooking up makes them feel desirable also say it makes them feel awkward.
• During hookups, guys have orgasms 44% of the time. Girls have orgasms 19% of the time.
• 12% of women say that it is sometimes easier to have sex with a guy they don’t know than to make conversation.

What will be the long-term effect on marriage when so few young people are getting any practice at relationships?

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