The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture

Aditi Paul

doi:10.5771/9781793633613

Summary

The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture provides a holistic picture of the current hookup culture in American college campuses. Based on the findings from a nationally representative survey, Aditi Paul demonstrates that hookups initiated through dating apps are fundamentally different from hookups that ensue from conventional meeting contexts. By comparing the socio-demographic and psychological profiles of students who report meeting their hookup partners through dating apps compared to other venues, she examines if and how hookup scripts and the physical and emotional outcomes of hookups differ across meeting contexts. Furthermore, she explores the potential effect of sexually permissive practices and impresses the importance of including international students into the larger conversation surrounding hookup culture. The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture calls into question long-held gender-specific beliefs about the collegiate hookup culture and advocates moving past dated assumptions for an understanding that more accurately represents the current hookup culture in American college campuses.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3360-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3361-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 140
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Tables No access
3. List of Tables No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. Is the Moral Panic Surrounding Hookups Legitimate? No access
2. Dating: Not What It Used To Be No access
3. What Changed about Dating? No access
4. 1. Hooking Up as a One-Time Event No access
  2. Hooking Up Only with Strangers No access
  3. Hooking Up Involving a Variety of Sexual Behaviors No access
  4. What Factors Affect Hookups? No access
  5. What Happens during Hookups? No access
  6. What Are the Consequences of Hooking Up? No access
5. 1. The Lure of Dating Apps among College Students No access
  2. Dating Apps as Venues to Meet Hookup Partners No access
6. 1. Data Collection No access
1. Gender No access
2. 1. Comparing Heterosexual and LGB College Students’ Hookup Participation No access
3. Race No access
4. Religion No access
5. 1. Fraternities and Sororities No access
  2. Athletic Membership No access
6. Academic Achievement and Career-Mindedness No access
7. Sexual Permissiveness No access
8. Current Study No access
9. Implications of Results on Current Hookup Culture No access
10. Main Takeaways No access
1. 1. Online Spaces as Venues for Sex No access
  2. Online Dating Transforming the Online Space for Sex No access
2. 1. Compensation, Recreation, and Rich-Get-Richer Hypotheses No access
3. Current Study No access
4. 1. Benefits and Risks of Meeting Hookup Partners at School No access
  2. Benefits and Risks of Meeting Hookup Partners at Parties No access
  3. Benefits and Risks of Meeting Hookup Partners on Dating Apps No access
  4. Benefits and Risks of Meeting Hookup Partners through Work No access
5. Implications of Results on Current Hookup Culture No access
6. Main Takeaways No access
1. Cultural Sexual Script No access
2. Interpersonal Sexual Script No access
3. Intrapsychic Script No access
4. 1. 1. Sex-Comedy Movies as a Source of Cultural Hookup Script for College Hookups No access
    2. Peers as a Source of Cultural Hookup Script for College Hookups No access
  2. 1. Evolving Changes in Interpersonal Hookup Scripts No access
5. 1. Script Elements across All Meeting Contexts (Parties, School, Dating Apps, Work) No access
  2. Meeting Context-Specific Script Elements No access
  3. Gender-Specific Scripts per Meeting Context No access
6. Implications of Results on Current Hookup Culture No access
7. Main Takeaways No access
1. 1. 1. Intoxication No access
    2. Familiarity with Hookup Partners No access
    3. Feelings toward Hookup Partner No access
  2. 1. Female Sexual Victimization No access
    2. Male Sexual Victimization No access
2. 1. Role of Orgasms in Positive Reactions to Hookups No access
3. 1. 1. Alcohol Consumption and Drug Use No access
    2. Familiarity with Hookup Partners No access
    3. Feelings toward Hookup Partners No access
  2. Are Men More Likely to Engage in Riskier Sexual Behaviors Compared to Women? No access
  3. Are Women More Likely to Experience Sexual Assault During Hookups? No access
  4. Are Some Meeting Contexts Riskier than Others? No access
  5. 1. Male Students’ Sexual Satisfaction and Regret No access
    2. Female Students’ Sexual Satisfaction and Regret No access
4. Implications of Results on Current Hookup Culture No access
5. Main Takeaways No access
1. Is Sugar Dating Promoting Prostitution? No access
2. 1. Why Are College Students Sugaring? No access
  2. What Do Students Do for Their Sugar Daddies and Mommas? No access
3. Implication of Results on Current Hookup Culture No access
4. Main Takeaways No access
1. The Lure of American Higher Education No access
2. Challenges Unique to International Students No access
3. University’s Role in Addressing These Challenges No access
4. 1. 1. Hookup Experiences No access
5. Implications of Results on Current Hookup Culture No access
6. Main Takeaways No access
1. Limitations and Future Directions No access
Bibliography No access Pages 121 - 132
Index No access Pages 133 - 138
About the Author No access Pages 139 - 140