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The Shift from Dating to Hooking Up: What Scholars Have Missed
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that there was a fundamental change in how heterosexual college students “get together.” In fact, the shift from the traditional dating script to the hook up script was not recognized in the literature until the turn of the twenty-first century (Bogle 2004; Glenn and Marquardt 2001; Paul, McManus, and Hayes 2000). Dating vs. Hooking up: Not Just a Semantic Debate
Hooking up is substantively different than dating. Hooking up
generally involves a college man and college woman pairing off at the end of a party or evening at a bar to engage in a physical/sexual encounter. Alcohol is available at the event and is often consumed by one or both parties involved in the hook up. The hook up can involve anything from kissing to sexual intercourse or anything seen as falling in-between these two ends of the sexual spectrum. Regardless of what happens sexually, a hallmark of hooking up is that there are no obligations or “strings attached” to the encounter.
With the dating script, college men and women went on dates first and
then, in some cases, became sexually intimate with one another. With the hook up script, college students become sexual first and then maybe someday go on a date. Therefore, hooking up represents a reversal of the traditional “date first, sex later” formula. Moreover, with dating, there was some expectation that the degree of sexual intimacy would match the degree of emotional intimacy. In other words, two people would become increasingly sexually intimate as they grew “closer.” With hooking up, the degree of sexual intimacy is often unrelated to emotional attachment. In fact, many of the college students in one study indicated that they were more likely to “go further” sexually with someone during a hook up if they did not like the person that much or believed there was no “relationship potential” (Bogle 2004). The differences between the dating script and hook up script underscores that scholars cannot simply substitute the term hooking up for the term dating in their research.
In the only major nationally representative study on this issue, Glenn
and Marquardt define hooking up as: “when a girl and a guy get together for a physical encounter and don’t necessarily expect anything further” (2001: page #). Importantly, Glenn and Marquardt’s research team conducted qualitative interviews with college women throughout the country in order to inform the definition they used in the quantitative survey portion of their
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that there was a fundamental change in how heterosexual college students
“get together.” In fact, the shift from the traditional dating script to the hook
up script was not recognized in the literature until the turn of the twenty-first
century (Bogle 2004; Glenn and Marquardt 2001; Paul, McManus, and
Hayes 2000).
Dating vs. Hooking up: Not Just a Semantic Debate
Hooking up is substantively different than dating. Hooking up
generally involves a college man and college woman pairing off at the end
of a party or evening at a bar to engage in a physical/sexual encounter.
Alcohol is available at the event and is often consumed by one or both
parties involved in the hook up. The hook up can involve anything from
kissing to sexual intercourse or anything seen as falling in-between these
two ends of the sexual spectrum. Regardless of what happens sexually, a
hallmark of hooking up is that there are no obligations or “strings attached”
to the encounter.
With the dating script, college men and women went on dates first and
then, in some cases, became sexually intimate with one another. With the
hook up script, college students become sexual first and then maybe
someday go on a date. Therefore, hooking up represents a reversal of the
traditional “date first, sex later” formula. Moreover, with dating, there was
some expectation that the degree of sexual intimacy would match the degree
of emotional intimacy. In other words, two people would become
increasingly sexually intimate as they grew “closer.” With hooking up, the
degree of sexual intimacy is often unrelated to emotional attachment. In
fact, many of the college students in one study indicated that they were more
likely to “go further” sexually with someone during a hook up if they did not
like the person that much or believed there was no “relationship potential”
(Bogle 2004). The differences between the dating script and hook up script
underscores that scholars cannot simply substitute the term hooking up for
the term dating in their research.
In the only major nationally representative study on this issue, Glenn
and Marquardt define hooking up as: “when a girl and a guy get together for
a physical encounter and don’t necessarily expect anything further” (2001:
page #). Importantly, Glenn and Marquardt’s research team conducted
qualitative interviews with college women throughout the country in order to
inform the definition they used in the quantitative survey portion of their
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