This is an essential and basic principle of the Seven Laws of Noah,a common worldviewunderlying Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Through her assignments, Professor Cronin is encouraging her students to follow the standards of sexual morality that form the basis of these three Abrahamic faiths. What do they teach us about self-respect, honoring commitments, and personal boundaries? The four sirens ofSex and the Citymay be sympathetic and amusing, but their affairs—however kooky or disillusioning—are romanticized and prized. Sex is portrayed as a desirable but short-lived commodity typically spoiled by attempts to transform it into a meaningful relationship. It seems that sex uncoupled from relationships has become the norm for many, andseveral studiesbear this out.

Personally, I have friends who participate in hookup culture and while I do not judge anybody I know many people who will say things to me about how they should feel bad about what they are doing and how it is wrong, or that they are “sluts”. I have seen first-hand my guy friends brag about how many girls they have slept or hooked up with like it is a prize. I believe it probably has something to do with stereotypes and gender roles that people hold deep and do not let go of. For the fourth to fifth week of material we began covering the category of psychological within the topic of hookup culture. Prior to this focus we, as a class, came up with a universal definition of “hookup” culture for the duration of the semester. I don’t think our definition particularly incorporates psychological because when I think of that category I think of the way hookups effect people mentally rather than the way a hookup is defined.

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By this, I mean that if someone catches feelings and then is ghosted, they can experience emotional distress. One of our team’s resources for this category is a textbook called Discovering Human Sexuality. Within this textbook, it goes over different psychological concepts that help describe humans experience within sex and hookups. One of the subjects the book covers is attraction and how we choose other partners. One of the important concepts of attraction is symmetry; those whose faces are more symmetrical appear more attractive.

Another would freak out for hours about the mysterious texts she received from a guy who consistently treated her with disrespect. He would often have her come over, sleep with her, and then ask her to leave. College hookup culture is not as black-and-white as the media often Cupid.com reviews portrays it to be. The extrovert vs. introvert debate has nothing on cat people vs. dog people. Sex demands comprehensive consent, because only in marriage are vulnerability and trust undergirded by the public vows of fidelity that make full personal intimacy possible.

It does not include every “cameo” appearance or those comics that use only the image of Poe. There have been over three hundred comic book adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe’s works as of 2008, possibly more than that of any other American writer. Since then, the number of Poe adaptations in comics has exceeded that of any other comparable period.

Submitting a story to the New Yorker was a long shot, and a piece of literary short fiction had never gone viral in this way. In the midst of my grief, I realized for the first time that my suspicions had been true—I could finally say for sure that “Cat Person” was about me. Within hours, the strange thrill I’d felt was replaced by disgust, then anger. I imagined Roupenian scrolling through my social media accounts, gathering details about me. In August, I moved into a dorm with a friend from high school who didn’t approve of my relationship’s 15-year age gap. I rode the city bus to Charles’, where he read my essays and student newspaper op-eds while we drank Dark ’n’ Stormies.

In my opinion there is nothing wrong with hooking up with someone because you are bored. It is a type of interaction that can boost happiness and increase connections. At that age, I didn’t have the emotional tools to fully comprehend this new environment, let alone navigate the entangled landscape of friendships, rivalries, hookups, exes, and relationships.

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Lila Goldstein (she/her) is a sophomore at Brandeis University from Florida. She studies Near Eastern & Judaic Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and creative writing, and is involved in Reform Jewish life on campus. Lila is also a co-founder of Jewish Teens for Empowered Consent, an organization that fights for advocacy and change around sexual harassment and assault in Jewish youth spaces. Lila is a part of the Jewish Media Fellowship, as a fellow with Lilith Magazine and New Voices Magazine.

Earlier, I mentioned that I think the psychological aspect of hookup culture is very subjective and I truly stand by this as I have seen those of opposite gender experience similar feelings. My guy friend from high school struggled when his girlfriend of a few months broke up with him because she was his first intimate relation. I feel like anyone involved in hookup culture can relate to this category, whether on a college campus or not. When going out, the first thing I worry about is what I am going to wear and how I look. Even if I have no plans of wanting to go home with anyone, I want to feel good about my appearance.

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The thing about psychology and hooking up is that there are gender differences relating to it. In most of our research it says that women value finding love and have a harder time hooking up because of intimacy. When you are intimate, it makes it difficult not to catch feelings for the other person. Therefore, it is harder for some people to disconnect hooking up from love, making the definition a little complicated. To me, intimacy means love and/or commitment, so it is challenging to say that when thinking about psychology that intimacy is a part of hooking up. For this category or chapter of the book, psychological, my group found an article about how “hookup” culture can dominate and diminish a person’s self-worth.

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I feel like guys don’t have to try that hard with their appearance. They can throw on some jeans and a button up, or any shirt really, and be considered attractive. You see girls dressed up in an outfit, normally a crop top with any bottoms, a skirt, jeans, leggings, hair and makeup done and then you see guys in just whatever. This shows the gender difference – women are held to higher standards and are expected to dress and look a certain way.