College students partake in casual hooking up
Women's Health Issues
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Double standards in today's society about gender sex roles seem to be Victorian adages that are adrift. With new gender roles, social standards and politics, promiscuity among both men and women is a highly debatable topic that could have a change in opinion at any moment.
It could be a trend, for all society cares. Yet it seems that when men are promiscuous, they get high five-ed and toasted by their buddies for their various conquests.
"Player" often means a man is experienced and successful in the sport of chasing tail. On the other hand, if a woman is promiscuous, she is "dirty," "slutty" and "whore."
With entirely no offense intended, JHU is not a good representation of normal sexual behavior. There is a huge difference between the sexual behavior of a state school and our little campus.
For one, there's size. A state school such as Arizona State University is in itself a city. Chances that you would run into a one night stand in class at ASU are relatively slim.
However, chances that you would run into a one night stand at JHU would be very high, as well as a large part of the student body knowing what fun you had over the weekend. That could create a bit of a problem...
Surprisingly, I found that out of the 10 females I interviewed, five were sexually active, and two of the five preferred hook-ups to sex with a significant other.
Out of 11 males that returned this survey, eight of them were sexually active. Out the eight, seven expressed preference to having sex with a significant other as opposed to a random hook-up.
Upon casually asking a few more of my female friends, three out of five desired a casual sexual encounter rather than sex with a boyfriend.
A junior female says that she'd rather engage in casual sex because, "There isn't the burden of dealing with a relationship. And besides, we all need our Samantha (a character from the HBO TV series Sex and the City) phase before we venture out into the real world."
Although my data is not be the most accurate nor was it created in the most scientific manner possible, there is a definite display of a more significant increase of female promiscuity.
This is the current debate. Recently, it was proven that male promiscuity is evolutionarily beneficial. They are able to "sow their wild oats" in hopes of producing multiple offspring with their genetic information.
Evolutionary theories from Darwin were inundated with the stiff Victorian traditions assuming that women were looking for the best male.
It was the general assumption that women were sexually passive and monogamous. However, recent studies show otherwise.
Of course, women's liberation since Darwin's time has altered the social standing women have with men.
Women are now seeing more eye- to-eye with men in careers, family rearing and even in relationships. Seeking to find a mate for security, whether emotional or economic, is no longer a priority for them.
British professor Tim Birkhead of the University of Sheffield is one of the leading analysts of the theory of female promiscuity.
He believes that women are genetically programmed to have sex with several males to increase the chance of conceiving a healthier child.
His theory on sperm competition supports genetic proof that promiscuity creates healthier offspring.
Furthermore, sexual selection behavior among females guarantees that there are the best sperm possibilities out there from which to choose.
Another piece of evidence that shows that females are promiscuous is the fact that males have the need to guard their mates.
In vertebrate animals, males feel the need to stay close to the female when she is fertile so as to keep other males away. This form of "marking territory" ensures that the male has his genetic material passed along in offspring.
According to Professor Sarah Hrdy of University of California, Davis, one in seven women have admitted that their child is not related to the cuckolded father that is rearing him or her.
However, relating back to college life, it is evident that women on our campus do display evidence of promiscuity.
It could be the underlying effectors that prepare them later in life for rearing the best possible children. The "good gene" theory seems to be a new and revolutionary idea that would make Darwin roll in his grave.