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College students prefer casual sex to long term relationships: No sh@T!


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In this brilliant article by Sue Shellenbarger of the Wall Street Journal she details the lives of several students that have focused on their careers instead of searching for a life long partner. This of course results in the fast and wild world of the "Hook-Up" culture!

I think it is a little naive to say that hook-up culture exists because students are focusing on their careers. Maybe she's just painting a rosy picture because she tells us that her own daughter is in college. I think it is far more likely that young people who have no idea what they want to do with their life and are scared to death of a real relationship are just screwing their brains out until the real world comes crashing in on their bacchanalian paradise.

I actually met my fiancé in college, but we didn't date until 5 years later and I know for sure that if we had dated in college the situation would have ended badly. She nor I were any where near the people we needed to be in order to get married.

So I say meet great people in college, build long term friends and if the "hook-up" culture is working for you, by all means have at it. You may never have a chance again!

Oh yeah and focus on your career.
nordby7

12 responses // College students prefer casual sex to long term relationships: No sh@T!

  • I have to agree and disagree a bit. I feel like then in college and now still I have been so concentrated on my job and career that I just don't have time to date. It's not that I don't want to find that perfect someone for me but I want to make sure I don't jump in and jump out of relationships; which is just not healthy.

    So when that someone comes along, no matter the circumstances; it will be right and things will fall into place.
    woodywoodbeck
  • Oh did I forget to mention Casual sex isn't all thattt bad! haha
    woodywoodbeck
  • what is the difference between casual sex and formal?
    BrianMcFayden
  • Ha! Good question Brian...I think casual sex where you have on like Ed Hardy and Diesel jeans before you get naked and formal like being "prom night" sex?

    I'm at a loss...
    woodywoodbeck
  • Guy's I'm at work laughing at loud!
    bluepolo21
  • College is the perfect time to explore sex and sexuality, safely that is.
    TooPolitical
  • I feel that this has to do with physical biological attraction, age and location, location, location. I always have the thought that sex is more in the hands of girls; literarily speaking; and not so much in the hands of the guys. In a time where "STDs" and other things are flying around, please, make sure you have a good "informal" conversation about health issues with your present casual partner before actually move to 3rd base because on the 4th you are actually gone to that dimension where there is no reverse.
    stopnoise
  • Wow Nordby, so now that you're engaged you're dishing all kinds of serious love advice?

    Yet another amazing specimen added to the Erik Nordby Fans/Fan Club.

    Santé!
    khsing
  • Whoa! Groundbreaking research! I think nordby has a way better handle on the situation than this Wall Street professional living in her naive bubble.
    SamuraiDave
  • just as we believe not all rule apply to every one or in evry situation. i have this both actually in the same time thought priority rules must stick on your doorstep. i could not say why not? im a boarding school student since on my early 17. who is naive in the society which evrything was in it. which is very opposite to where me and my wife grow up. me and my wife known each other only when iam on my first yr in colleges and she was high school, with the ground of the same faith. Each of us dont have carrer yet or any prospect. and yet we are both successful in her field. what make us going was respect and never think that it will be forever till time have come that we dont realise we are. because the more you know that this thing must be forever, sometimes made us to think , we might be bored for her soon. but that was not our case. as we keep setting our right path of the carrer still and ourself to be the second. sex was great at that time as well we both enjoy our own way. the only thing that we should protect her was the womb which is when you are not careful then this might make both settle in the way you dont expect. or if you dont stick to the rule then you must have to sacrifice to the end. though balancing was a bit hard but condom was same as like having a candy in 7 eleven. so what the different? we have sex in every house weve invited to go i could recall. focus was the right word for that and not carried away. it takes us ten year to come to see that this was it and we start considering things. and because we have such everyday discussion then we find ourself .. you know so...why look for someone else? and now im chiefmate which is the 2nd highiest position of choice and a part time crewing representative of the uk to philippines. while she was on her bussiness and still having her master degree on bussiness adminastration. we have one year and a half old daughter and a 7 bedroom house which we make it hometel as it become huges for us. here i learn respecting the rule was my first rule to have. its great. i dont miss anything except having children when iam not ready to have than i have now. im 34 and my wife was 31. ived been a regular employee in uk on two month off and 6month on. what else i ask for. sorry for long story but im just thakful for what god lead us to have. godbless you too.
    glenngallego
  • I dont know, with a war going on, people hating and killing each other, people in Darfur and Kenya suffering, it being the day to look at female heart complications, and politics going down hill....this just does not seem like it really needs to be on the front page..
    AswegoAsdego
  • Actually, Aswego, that's exactly why it needs to be on the front page. Variety is the spice of life
    SamuraiDave

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