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Maybe 5 partners by their mid twenties, always pursued relationships, didn't party that hard. A reality of hook up culture just can't be possible in their minds because that reality was never real to them.
5 partners is in the normal range. The median number of partners for all people is around 8.
If you went to college, SOME class should have taught you how to properly draw conclusions from data and how the plural of anecdote is not data.
3% of men have had zero sexual partners since the age of 18, 20% have had 1 partner, 21% have had 2-4 partners, 23% have had 5-10 partners, 16% have had 11-20 partners, and 17% have had 21 or more partners (Laumann, Gagnon, Michael, Michaels, 1994).
3% of women have had zero sexual partners since the age of 18, 31% have had 1 partner, 36% have had 2-4 partners, 20% have had 5-10 partners, 6% have had 11-20 partners, and 3% have had 21 or more partners (Laumann, Gagnon, Michael, Michaels, 1994).
The more recent studies I posted earlier indicated that those numbers are holding.
Does a hookup culture exist? Maybe within that 17% of men and 3% of women. Now, maybe you're right and people are lying - probably the men inflating numbers and the women artificially reducing them. Even adjusting for that it's far from prevalent across the population.
Where I went to college it seemed a lot more prevalent in the Greek set - and they were 10-15% of the student population so that would jive with what the studies show. My a**hat roommate was in a fraternity and he engaged in that lifestyle and made subjective judgments about my dates, how they were "7's at best." Idiot.
My point before that every generation has its sub-set like this, and most other people are not in it. The OP was acting as if Millennials are unique in this when they're actually a little less active than those who came before, mainly because the average age of losing virginity has gone up by more than 1 year.
My point before that every generation has its sub-set like this, and most other people are not in it. The OP was acting as if Millennials are unique in this when they're actually a little less active than those who came before, mainly because the average age of losing virginity has gone up by more than 1 year.
Exactly. The only difference now seems to be that the media have latched onto it and given it a name: hook-up culture. But I think it's pretty widely acknowledged that the mid-to-late 60's saw the ultimate hook-up culture. Back then it was called "Free Love". Hard to imagine those geezerly Boomers were getting it on like crazy, eh?
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Exactly. The only difference now seems to be that the media have latched onto it and given it a name: hook-up culture. But I think it's pretty widely acknowledged that the mid-to-late 60's saw the ultimate hook-up culture. Back then it was called "Free Love". Hard to imagine those geezerly Boomers were getting it on like crazy, eh?
Not really, there is a lot of room for loving in Golden Gate Park.
Exactly. The only difference now seems to be that the media have latched onto it and given it a name: hook-up culture. But I think it's pretty widely acknowledged that the mid-to-late 60's saw the ultimate hook-up culture. Back then it was called "Free Love". Hard to imagine those geezerly Boomers were getting it on like crazy, eh?
Exactly. The only difference now seems to be that the media have latched onto it and given it a name: hook-up culture. But I think it's pretty widely acknowledged that the mid-to-late 60's saw the ultimate hook-up culture. Back then it was called "Free Love". Hard to imagine those geezerly Boomers were getting it on like crazy, eh?
The more recent studies I posted earlier indicated that those numbers are holding.
Does a hookup culture exist? Maybe within that 17% of men and 3% of women. Now, maybe you're right and people are lying - probably the men inflating numbers and the women artificially reducing them. Even adjusting for that it's far from prevalent across the population.
Where I went to college it seemed a lot more prevalent in the Greek set - and they were 10-15% of the student population so that would jive with what the studies show. My a**hat roommate was in a fraternity and he engaged in that lifestyle and made subjective judgments about my dates, how they were "7's at best." Idiot.
My point before that every generation has its sub-set like this, and most other people are not in it. The OP was acting as if Millennials are unique in this when they're actually a little less active than those who came before, mainly because the average age of losing virginity has gone up by more than 1 year.
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Pardon the digression, but what's a Key Party?
Swinger / Mate swap party where car keys are used to pick out who is going with whom.
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