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How hook up culture depletes you
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“Hook up” culture depletes you.
Think about it.
Let’s compare it to friendships. When you spend most of your time with people who are shallow or selfish or both and worse, those connections don’t add to you. They don’t nurture or empower you.
They delete a part of you.
You feel alone even when surrounded by people like this.
So how much more of a negative impact is it when you have one after the other of “hook ups:” shallow, empty, quick, moments of physically connecting with someone else.
Yea the orgasm feels great, but have you actually gained anything long term from it?
No. and this lack of connection is felt equally regardless of biological sex, gender, or sexual orientation.
In other words,
we ALL lose from long term participation in “hook up” culture.
By age 30, most people I know expressed the same reactions to disconnected sexual encounters. Those who had never sustained a long term bond, felt lonely and without a support center…