Defining Hooking-Up: Anything from Kissing to Sex?
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
SURC Ballroom C/D
Start Date
16-5-2013
End Date
16-5-2013
Abstract
This study used 727 participants' survey responses to analyze definitions of hooking-up as well as look at differing definitions with regards to gender. Respondents were asked to report whether specific sexual behaviors represented hooking-up or not. Participants were asked to respond the question: "If this were the only behavior that happened between two people, ________________ would be considered a hook-up." Frequencies of sexual behaviors being reported as hooking-up were analyzed. Gender difference between frequency of positive reports were found in the activities of "fondling-clothes off," "fondling-under clothes," "deep kissing without tongue," and "spending the night." For all of these activities, women reported the behavior to be a hook-up with higher frequency than men. (Editor’s Note: This presentation may contain adult themes, content, or imagery.)
Recommended Citation
Stuhlsatz, Greta, "Defining Hooking-Up: Anything from Kissing to Sex?" (2013). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 30.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2013/posters/30
Poster Number
41
Additional Mentoring Department
Family and Consumer Sciences
Defining Hooking-Up: Anything from Kissing to Sex?
SURC Ballroom C/D
This study used 727 participants' survey responses to analyze definitions of hooking-up as well as look at differing definitions with regards to gender. Respondents were asked to report whether specific sexual behaviors represented hooking-up or not. Participants were asked to respond the question: "If this were the only behavior that happened between two people, ________________ would be considered a hook-up." Frequencies of sexual behaviors being reported as hooking-up were analyzed. Gender difference between frequency of positive reports were found in the activities of "fondling-clothes off," "fondling-under clothes," "deep kissing without tongue," and "spending the night." For all of these activities, women reported the behavior to be a hook-up with higher frequency than men. (Editor’s Note: This presentation may contain adult themes, content, or imagery.)
Faculty Mentor(s)
Duane Dowd