Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Hooking up and forming romantic relationships on Today’s College Campuses

Paula England, Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer, and Alison C. K. Fogarty
Hooking up and forming romantic relationships on Today’s College Campuses.

In England, Shafer’s and Fogarty’s article, Hooking Up and Forming Romantic Relationships On Today’s College Campuses a “hook up” is ambiguous in definition, but generally is referred to as a situation where two people meet up and end up having a sexual encounter. (pg 532). They state that hook ups are gendered in three ways, Initiations, The Orgasm Gap and The Sexual Double Standard. An initiation is when the man will make attempts to initiate sexual activities towards a woman. (pg 535) The Orgasm Gap refers to men reporting having more orgasms during a hook up than females. (pg 535) The Sexual double standard stigmatizes to both men and women. Women who have too many sexual partners are labeled as a ‘slut’ and men being referred to as ‘man whores’. (pg 538) Although our society has had it ‘sexual revolution’ there is still a gendered system that has been left relativity untouched. (pg 544)

written by Mariana Gost

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