There is a lack of a dating scene on Lehigh’s campus, and among college students it seems that there are fewer relationships than there are random dates and hookups. An article in the Brown and White refers to this as the “hookup culture.”
I realized early on in my freshman year that it can be difficult to have a boyfriend on a college campus, where meeting guys at parties usually does not result in friendship and guys do not seem to care about your relationship status. It can be really hard to maintain guy friends when guys seem to only care about being more than friends. It can also be difficult when guys do not even want to talk to you because they know you are in a relationship.
When meeting a guy at a party, they really only seem to have one thing in mind. Friendships that cross the sex barrier do not seem to bloom from parties. However, can you blame them? I have found that meeting guys through group projects, class work, or in your living quarters can actually result in a good friendship. There is hope that girls and guys can have friendships in college, I am definitely not trying to discount that.
For single girls, it seems really easy to find someone to hook up with on campus. I have seen that a lot of people are willing to have random hookups, and although the extent of these hookups may vary, they occur all the time.
Is there a reason for this? Is it because college students are not interested in commitment at this stage in their lives? Is it because they’re not meeting the right people?
I found a really awesome article about the hookup culture on CNN's site. It talks about the negatives of hooking up, no strings attached, and the empty feeling that students may feel afterward. Apparently, there is a lack of satisfaction after a hookup that the article explains really well.
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