Once I ended up being an undergraduate at Georgetown University into the very early 1990s, my roomie and I also clothed like prostitutes for Halloween. We purchased fishnets, wore our tightest, sexiest garments and sauntered away like we had been the greatest girls alive.
I recall that evening fondly, despite the fact that my feminist sensibilities cringe a small now. For me personally, that costume had been a kind of intimate experimentation. We thought we would dress sexier I considered acceptable than I ever had and to stretch the boundaries of what. And in those days, i did son’t understand someone else who’d done it.
We think about university as a spot where children, maybe free of their moms and dads’ watchful eyes when it comes to very first time, can experiment intimately. Yet, my small adventure very nearly two years ago appears innocent compared with hookup tradition — a lifestyle of unemotional, unattached sex — so predominant on campuses today.
Is starting up a type of intimate experimentation? You’d think therefore. All things considered, hookups are typical about tossing from the bonds of relationships and dating for carefree intercourse. But such hypersexuality can be in the same way oppressive as a mandate for abstinence. Hookup intercourse is quick, uncaring, unthinking, perfunctory. Continue reading