So how did we end up with hook up culture?

scubadive
Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:01:54 +0000

The studies regarding when kids begin having sex is flawed because that information is self reported and there is no way to ensure accuracy. What compels a student to tell the truth? When the drinking age was 18 and the federal government forcibly changed it to 21 drinking was not the taboo it is today with the legal ramifications. So what shall kids do with their free time? Sex is legal. It doesn’t require a fake ID and it doesn’t get you a MIP. Everything else that relates to the feeling of “high” is illegal so sex would be a natural choice. Kids don’t drink beer. Its easier to get drugs or sneak off and have sex. If they drink they drink Vodka because it is easy to hide in water bottles or mixed with soda and the like and has little odor. During prohibition drinking rates went up. People made gin in their bathtubs. Prohibiting adults (18-21) from drinking has consequences. They don’t drink low content alcohol because it is too noticeable so they get plastered drinking hard alcohol and inhibitions go the way of the wind and poor choices are made. This is not unique to college campuses. An 18 year old can go to war but drinking a beer is illegal how does this make sense? An 18 year is legally an adult whose parents no longer have to provide financial support and can legally vote but cannot borrow money for college until they are older than 24, makes no sense. At 18 kids are either an adult or they are not. Society is sending mixed signals.