Hookups starve the soul Reflection

Hookups are a very riveting topic. It is spoken about a lot between high school and college students, they talk about how the hookup experience was and how they feel after it. Personally, I haven’t ever wanted to do this because I am more of a hopeless romantic type of person. I find relationships to be more interesting because you get to know a person more and it’s overall way more challenging and it helps you develop patience and confidence for that other person. Relationships do have their cons though. Some of them are: those negative feelings you get after a fight, overthinking about something they did or said, being cheated on or a breakup. This is why I get why people have hookups, it’s a way to satisfy your needs without getting involved with the person. Having sex is something that satisfies us physically speaking, but from my point of view, hookups do cause an emotional detachment. I think this emotional detachment doesn’t happen to everyone though. This emotional detachment usually happens to people who have just broken up with their partner and no longer wish to feel bad. They look for a way to not feel bad anymore and that way is a hookup. You have sex or make out with someone and you satisfy your physical needs without having to ever feel bad about it but sometimes this method can create conflict between the two. Examples of this are that the girl could end up pregnant or one of the two could end up falling in love during the sexual intercourse. I think people who do have hookups should talk about it before they do it, so they can fully understand that it is a hookup and nothing else, because if not, the hookup could cause the person to start developing feelings for the other person.

Works Cited: Hookups starve the soul, Vanderkam, Laura