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How to Have a Good Hookup in College

Back-to-school season means new classes, new environments, and new attractive people to meet. Sometimes, meeting attractive people may incite an urge to hook up with said people. Being on a college campus requires particular care when deciding whether to hook up with someone. There are far fewer rules for most than there were in high school, but extra precautions must be taken with the extra freedom. Here are some tips to make the most out of your college hook-ups. Time and space are limited resources at college, so utilize what you do have to your advantage. Share a room with someone who only takes morning classes? Arrange time for a brunch and chill session, even if the only thing which constitutes brunch in it is a stale Pop-Tart. Have conflicting class schedules? Utilize effective ways to achieve universal satisfaction in minimal amounts of time.

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Picture by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels. We took a deep dive into the hook-up culture of Elon University and beyond. We sent out a survey to straight men and women at Elon, University of Miami, and the University of Texas at Austin to compare the trends of their hook-up culture with that at Elon. As predicted, the overall trend is very similar across the nation. We surveyed random students from these three schools to get the scoop on off-campus party hook-up culture. Want to know more? Men are not let into parties without certain criteria while women are treated as prizes.

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Illustration by Kaitlyn Tran. Everytime I try to explain to my year-old mother the concept of hookup culture in college, we debate for an hour who knows best. I tell her how times have changed since she was young. Today, we live in a society where casual sex is acceptable and almost encouraged. By the time many individuals reach college, they no longer view sex as a sacred experience that should be reserved for one person.

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The shifting dynamics of college hookup culture

The Herald spoke with several students about the unspoken pressures that hookup culture cultivates, how often they should have sex and what that sex means — socially and personally. Social norms, along with dating apps and parties, contribute to these pressures but often do not clarify what healthy intimacy and fulfilling sex can be, students say. Since people believe that everyone is hooking up, they feel that they should be, too, he said. Part of the pressure from hookup culture comes from how much people talk about it, jonath said. Talking about hooking up can be linked to shame, so there is a thrill in talking about it, they explained.

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