a hookup (casual sex)

In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between “hook” and “up. I hope we’ll be able to hook up for coffee or something while you’re home for Christmas break. Do you guys ever plan to hook up after dating for so long? No, we never hooked up—we’re just friends. I heard Jenny hooked up with Brian.

May 16,  · Romance may be lacking among college students these days, replaced with quick “hookups,” a new book argues.

Despite racy headlines suggesting that college kids are increasingly choosing casual liaisons over serious relationships, a new study presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association finds that just under one-third of college students have had more than one partner in the past year. Gen Xers were actually more likely to have sex weekly or more frequently compared with millenials, according to the research.

In other words, today as in the past, most students having sex are still doing so in the context of some type of ongoing relationship. College Students May Prefer Relationship Sex to Casual Hookups The research involved data on nearly 2, people from the General Social Survey, a nationally representative survey that asks a wide range of questions and has been carried out since Kathleen Bogle, author of Hooking Up: Bogle argues that what is now called hookup culture began in the s, after birth control became widely available and the age of marriage began rising.

At that point, the couple ceased to be the center of college social life, and dating with the aim of marrying in college or shortly thereafter fell out of style. But Bogle and Monto do agree that students tend to think their peers hook up far more frequently than they actually do. One study found that on average, students report a total of five to seven hookups in their entire college career. But when Bogle surveyed students about how often they thought their fellow students were hooking up, they typically said seven times a semester.

Can Learn from the Dutch About Teen Sex That discrepancy in perception may explain the conflicting beliefs about whether college kids are really hooking up more than they used to — or not. The current study did find — based on reports by the students of their own sexual relationships — some evidence that recent generations of college students are having slightly more casual sex and so-called friends-with-benefits relationships.