Gen-Z women are calling BS on hookup culture

Hookup culture is usually marketed as empowering to women. It tells women who go off to college that they can explore their sexuality and have sex with random people without consequences. This narrative is not only a lie because hookup culture mainly benefits men (while also hurting them), but it also ignores the fact that men and women are biologically different. …

One of the so-called benefits of hookup culture is the chance for a woman to explore her sexuality, but this is another lie. TikTok user @theglowupsecrets made this point in a viral post. She says, “You’re disconnecting from your body. Hookup culture makes you believe that you’re gonna get more experience, and that’s really not true. Every time you get into a new relationship, it’s a new body to learn anyways, and what you should be learning is your own body and what feels good to you.” While our culture likes to pretend that women are sexually fulfilled through hookups, research shows that women in committed relationships and married women have better sex than their single counterparts. This is because having good sex takes time and learning about your (and your man’s) needs and desires.

[Hookup sex is a cheat on intimacy. Even if one doesn’t have religious scruples against sex out of wedlock, hook-ups are mechanical in nature rather than intimate in any sense other than physical. And that doesn’t even get into the ways that the hookup culture exploits and objectifies everyone — but especially women. — Ed]