User:Nikoleprelooker/sandbox

I want to add some things such as:

Norms that are involved with hook up culture.

I also want to add some information on mental health that comes along with hook up culture

Bibliography

Garcia, Justin R. "Sexual Hook-up Culture." American Physiological Association. Accessed March 2013. http://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/02/ce-corner.aspx.

Arnold, Karen. "College Student Development and the Hook up Culture." BostonCollege.edu. January 2009. http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/lsoe/pdf/Dev1.26.pdf.

Leah Kessler. "Most Women Don’t Enjoy Hookup Culture—so Why Do We Force Ourselves to Participate?" Quartz. May 17, 2016. Accessed September 29, 2016. http://qz.com/685852/hookup-culture/.

Weiss, Robert. "What Are the Psychological Effects of Casual Sex?" Psychology Today. June 08, 2015. Accessed October 06, 2016. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/love-and-sex-in-the-digital-age/201506/what-are-the-psychological-effects-casual-sex.

Ian Kerner. "Young Adults and a Hookup Culture." CNN. May 13, 2013. Accessed October 06, 2016. http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/16/health/kerner-hookup-culture/.

Krauss Whitbourne, Susan. "How Casual Sex Can Affect Our Mental Health." Psychology Today. March 09, 2013. Accessed October 06, 2016. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201303/how-casual-sex-can-affect-our-mental-health.

Cattleman, Michael. "The Shocking Truth About Hook-Ups." Psychology Today. February 15, 2016. Accessed October 11, 2016. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-about-sex/201602/the-shocking-truth-about-hook-ups.

Lead:

There are many ideas as to why people think young adults are involved in this hook up culture,such as that they feel like they have to do it to fit in . Some girls also reported that the main reason they are involved with random hook ups is because they think that is what boys want. The feeling of being wanted by a cute guy is what they want and hook ups are how girls think they can get that attention. However, many boys and girls did report that they do hook up with random people in order to find someone they could possibly start something serious with. That being said not all young adults are hooking up with each other to fit the college norm, and gain sexual pleasure, but because they truly want to find someone they have a serious connection with. There was a study by University of Louisville researchers Owen and Fincham, who asked 500 undergraduate students that have been involved in hook up culture how they felt about commitment, and about 45% of men and 65% of women said they wanted their hook ups to possibly end up in a serious relationship.

There have also been a number of studies that have studied the mental aspects of casual hookups. In a study down by psychologist Seth Schwartz has shown results that say that people who had many random hook ups had more psychological issues. For instance, students in college that had stated they were involved in casual sex had higher levels of depression and anxiety and lower levels of self-esteem, happiness and life satisfaction compared to the students who did not engage in a casual hook up in the past thirty days. There was then a study about 400 young adults that felt lonely and depressed and adults who had less feeling of loneliness and depression who were involved in sexual intercourse. They then researched what emotional affects being involved in sexual intercourse hookups had on them. They then came up with results that showed that penetrative sex hook ups made people with greater feelings of depression and loneliness have a decrease in those symptoms and feelings. Where as people who expressed less symptoms of loneliness and depression had an increase in those feelings after a penetrative sex hook up. Not only does it make people feel depressed but it makes them feel uncomfortable. For example, a study by Reiber and Garcia in 2010 show that a lot of people that engage in sexual hook ups feel uncomfortable. They also came to a conclusion that 78% of people in a hook up overestimate how comfortable their partner is doing certain things during their sexual engagement. Random hook ups also have shown to cause  feelings of pressure and performance anxiety in a study by Paul et al.'s.

Has the hook up culture in the past decade really increased so drastically like everyone says it has? There have actually be some studies that show that the hook up culture has not been more wild and crazy than it used to be. University of Portland researchers Monto and Carey analyzed data from the General Social Survey that shows:

Total Number of Sex Partners Among U.S. Young Adults Since Age 18

1988-96          2004-12

• 0:                10%            15%
• 1:                23%            23%
• 2:                16%            13%
• 3-5:             23%            24%
• 6-12:           20%            17%
• 13-20:           5%             5%
• 21+:              4%              3%

In this research it was demonstrated that the amount of sex partners people have now a days have barely any difference with the amount of partners people had twenty to thirty years ago.

• REVIEW* I agree with Alex. I like the statistics you've added and the reasearch you've found already. I think this information will be well added to the article. ~~~~Gianna Cupo~~~~

• REVIEW* I think your concepts are very well thought out. The points you make are interesting and make people want to keep reading about it. I would go over the grammatical and run on sentences though. Other than that, it is informative so just elaborate even more and it will be a great article. ~~~~Alex Albaeck~~~~
  • From Prof G: Grammar and wording is an important part of offering peer review! aalbaeck, make sure to offer some suggestions to nikoleprelooker about how to make some of those changes. Giannacupo can help with this. Additionally, make sure to read the tone of the original Hookup culture article and match your tone to that one; this can be done by some more editing. For instance, the first two sentences can be combined: "There are many conjectures as to why young adults are involved in hook up culture, such as that they feel like they have to do it to fit in." And then cite it - if you claim something has been mentioned "multiple times," you will need multiple citations for the same claim. Gerdesk (talk) 05:46, 19 October 2016 (UTC)