Let's chat about the Hook-Up Culture on College Campuses

For my podcast, I think it would be really interesting to focus on the hookup culture on college campuses. The podcasts I have enjoyed listening to the most have been very conversational based and more importantly been stories after stories of real people. With that being said, I thought a good focus point for my podcast would be the stigma around the hookup culture here. What is true about it and what is wrong.

There are numerous different outlets and approaches to this subject. The stigma around the hook up culture is to ‘not care’ or that girls ‘care too much.’ There is no hand book to explain the warning sides or frankly, the lack of warning signs.

I guess the question is, is there still meaning behind intimacy? Have we turned everything into something ‘casual?’ When does ‘something casual’ go too far? We spend time on empty iPhone applications to fill a void of loneliness. Then on the other hand, when is the void of loneliness filled with something else? Is that something else intimacy or something completely different?

Alcohol is undoubtedly a factor of the stigma around the hookup culture. The conversation will be open to the party scene and the impact it has on our attitude towards relationships and intimacy. Additionally, the age of social media has a drastic impact on our attitude as well.

I want the stories, the scary stories, the happy stories that then turned sad. How did it end for people? Both sides. Obviously, I can’t ask two people to open up about a situation shared between the two of them. I can attempt to understand the position of individuals in relationships by overlapping different relationships with one another.