Why Is There a Campus Hookup Culture? Feminism, careerism, and secularism are to blame.

By: American Decency Staff

I was in college and graduate school during the heyday of modern feminism. And the central message to women was clear as daylight: You are no different from men. Therefore, among other things, you can enjoy sex just like they do — just for the fun of it, and with many partners. The notion that nearly every woman yearns for something deeper when she has sexual intercourse with a man was dismissed as patriarchal propaganda. The culture may tell her to restrict sex to a man who loves her and might even marry her, but the liberated woman knows better: Sex without any emotional ties or possibility of future commitment can be “empowering.”

Feminism taught — and professors on the New York Times op-ed page continue to write — that there are no significant natural differences between men and women. Therefore, it is not unique to male nature to want to have sex with many partners. Rather, a “Playboy culture” “pressures” men into having frequent, uncommitted sex. And, to the extent that this is a part of male nature, it is equally true of women’s natures.

Another feminist message to women was that just as a woman can have sex like a man, she can also find a career as life-filling as men do. Therefore, pursuing an “M-R-S” at college is just another residue of patriarchy. Women should be as interested in a career as men are. Any hint of the notion that women want, more than anything else, to marry and make a family is sexist, demeaning, and untrue.

One result is that instead of trying to find a potential husband, young women are under feminist pressure to show that they couldn’t care less about forming an exclusive, let alone permanent, relationship with a man. And this provides another reason for them to engage in non-emotional, commitment-free sex.

Read More: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/346952/why-there-campus-hookup-culture

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