Is Dating Dead?
Reasons why people would prefer hookups:
1. If you’re not actually sure you want a significant other, hookups let you skip to the good stuff at a much faster pace. With dating, you need to find out where someone went to school ten years ago and which modern novel they like best. With hookups, one hopes you exchange names and condom preferences, (ex: her pleasure or extra lubricated?).
2. Hookups are cheaper than dates. Alcohol is an easy to get commodity that can be obtained either free at friend’s party or for very little money if you like drinking the undiluted urine known as Aristocrat. I feel the general trend with dates is to spend money. Either going to see a movie, which now costs as much as a tank of gas (okay not quite), or going to one of Charlottesville’s superb restaurants (which sometimes really does cost as much as a tank of gas). Anyone trapped in this way of thinking should consider that my best getting-to-know-you date involved grocery shopping. It’s true money was spent, but it was going to be anyway.
3. Hookups have an easy out. If you have a bad date, you may have to make polite excuses for a couple weeks or, worse, have a couple follow-up bad dates where you make a point to be uninteresting. If a hookup goes awry, the most you’ll ever have to deal with is three non-returned calls. Two can be explained, three is making a point.
Perhaps I’m from a generation that doesn’t quite see the appeal of “hooking up” but to me it would seem that “hooking up” would bring with it a great deal more emotional baggage then dating and breaking up.
I’d personally be filled with questions like:
Why am I good enough for hooking up, but not for a second or third date?
What emotional damage is done to this guy that he has even short term committment issues?
Why is hooking up better than longer term companionship?
and so forth…
Anyone care to share their own arguments as to why dating is a dying art and why hooking up is the growing trend? Are morals and values that far removed in a single generation?
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