superodalisque
Well-Known Member
i was recently reading an interesting article about sex on college campuses and it led me to think about what the reality was for fat folk by comparison to the general population. i have heard a lot of moaning about the lack of sex from young fat folk and the people attracted to them, but are they realistic in their assumptions when it comes to how their sex life does not stack up against their thin counterparts? i think when you're in your early twenties it's easy to assume that there is whole lot more sex going on around you than there really is. it's not until you're older that you realize just how much of it was only talk and how very clueless your in the know friends really were. are fat college students assuming that their sex life is so much worse than thin college students? are they right or wrong about their assumptions? what do you think? here is the snippet of the article that started my mind down this road.
Abstinence Is Not the Radical Solution to Hookup Culture
By Amanda Hess | Posted Monday, April 1, 2013, at 4:33 PM
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto...culture_donna_freitas_is_wrong_about_sex.html
If only young people’s problems could be solved by getting a significant other (or, presumably, a masturbatory aid). First of all, students on college campuses aren’t actually hooking up that much. Sociological Images’ Lisa Wade, who has researched hookup culture extensively, has found that “between two thirds and three quarters of students hook up at some point during college.” Since the term “hookup” can include everything from just kissing (where around 32 percent of college hookups end) to intercourse (40 percent of hookups), that means only that college students are engaging in as little as one makeout every four years. One study found that among students who did hook up in college, 40 percent did it three or fewer times total (less than one hookup a year); 40 percent did it between four and nine times (one to two hookups a year); and 20 percent did it ten or more times. Less than 15 percent of college students are engaging in some form of physical contact more than twice a year. It’s unlikely that the solution is for students to have even less casual sex.
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Abstinence Is Not the Radical Solution to Hookup Culture
By Amanda Hess | Posted Monday, April 1, 2013, at 4:33 PM
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto...culture_donna_freitas_is_wrong_about_sex.html
If only young people’s problems could be solved by getting a significant other (or, presumably, a masturbatory aid). First of all, students on college campuses aren’t actually hooking up that much. Sociological Images’ Lisa Wade, who has researched hookup culture extensively, has found that “between two thirds and three quarters of students hook up at some point during college.” Since the term “hookup” can include everything from just kissing (where around 32 percent of college hookups end) to intercourse (40 percent of hookups), that means only that college students are engaging in as little as one makeout every four years. One study found that among students who did hook up in college, 40 percent did it three or fewer times total (less than one hookup a year); 40 percent did it between four and nine times (one to two hookups a year); and 20 percent did it ten or more times. Less than 15 percent of college students are engaging in some form of physical contact more than twice a year. It’s unlikely that the solution is for students to have even less casual sex.
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