The long-term consequences of the hook-up culture

Once confined to dorm-room gossip sessions, salacious details about the hook-up culture on today's college campuses have become fodder for serious sociological analysis.

These authors often differ in their analyses of the hook-up culture's root causes and costs. Yet the proliferation of similar studies in recent years suggests an emerging consensus among experts that today's anything-goes campus sexual mores carry lasting consequences we only have begun to understand. And those consequences extend well beyond unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.

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Note especially this line, found towards the end of the story: "It's hard to imagine better preparation for adultery than years of emotionally detached, random sexual couplings." We promote this unwittingly by allowing the teenage dating culture to go unchecked, unquestioned, and unchallenged. Much more could be said here, but I think I'll save my thoughts for a later post. Suffice to say for now that we will be partly to blame for the next generation's moral failings if we do not address what we know to be a moral problem among this generation's teens.