From hooking up to staying in? Women negotiating appropriate sexuality in nightlife with age

While much research has explored contemporary constructions of young women’s sexuality, few studies have been sensitive to how age influences women’s sexuality in the context of mainstream nightlife. Drawing on sexual scripting theory, I investigate how 19 Norwegian women (ages 27–34 years) draw on and negotiate cultural scripts when making sense of their nightlife experiences with age. I found that nightlife was an increasingly difficult space to occupy, and that participating could cause tension with the women’s understandings of themselves, their behaviours and their desires in nightlife. While age-related scripts allowed the participants to criticise gender inequality in sexual interaction in nightlife, they simultaneously obscured how gender inequality in nightlife persisted in new forms with age.

Helping a Buddy Out

The men interviewed interpreted sex with men as compatible with heterosexuality and masculinity. What the author calls “bud-sex” is the way rural and small-town, white, straight men interpret or engage in sex in ways that reinforce their heterosexuality and masculinity. While the sex these men have with other men involves acts similar to those between gay and bisexual men, the meanings they attach to these acts differ greatly. Bud-sex has three components. First is hooking up with other masculine, white, and straight or bisexual men. Second is having secretive, nonromantic sex. And third is interpreting male-male sex as largely unthreatening to masculinity, heterosexuality, or marriage. Bud-sex, with its unique understandings of gender and sexual identity, reflects and reinforces the men’s embeddedness in straight culture. Sexual identity and masculinity depend on what sex acts mean, rather than on mere mechanics. Consequently, interpretations of sexual practices, not sexual practices in and of themselves, are crucially important. For the straight men interviewed, their interpretations both reflected and reinforced their embeddedness in straight culture. Bud-sex allows straight men to enjoy male-male sex without threatening either their heterosexuality or their masculinity.

Do young dating app users and non-users differ in mating orientations?

In recent years, dating apps have changed the way people meet and communicate with potential romantic and/or sexual partners. There exists a stereotype considering that these apps are used only for casual sex, so those apps would not be an adequate resource to find a long-term relationship. The objective of this study was to analyze possible individual differences in the mating orientations (short-term vs. long-term) between users and non-users of dating apps. Participants were 902 single students from a mid-size Spanish university, of both sexes (63% female, and 37% male), aged between 18 and 26 years (M = 20.34, SD = 2.05), who completed a battery of online questionnaires. It was found that, whereas dating apps users had a higher short-term mating orientation than non-users (more frequent behavior, higher desire, and more positive attitude), there were no differences in the long-term orientation as a function of use/non-use. Considering this, dating apps are a resource with a strong presence of people interested on hooking-up while, simultaneously, not a bad (nor good) option for finding long-term love.

The Effect of Differential Susceptibility to Social Influence on Endorsement of College Hookup Culture

College hookup culture is seen on nearly every college campus in the United States with many students partaking in the culture. Many college students feel pressured to hook up because they are misled by the belief that most of their peers are hooking up. For the present study, we examined the effects of a woman’s extent of susceptibility to social influence, college year, and relationship status on her perceptions of college hookup culture. To investigate this topic, 115 female undergraduate participants were gathered from a single-sex college who identified either as an underlevel or upperlevel student and as being single or in a relationship. Then, all participants took an online survey where they completed measures to assess participants’ susceptibility to social influence and perceptions about college hookup culture. Finally, participants were asked their relationship status, year in college, and degree of religiosity, the third of which was used as a covariate in analyses. Results found that participants with high susceptibility to social influence perceived hookup culture more favorably than students with low susceptibility. Furthermore, underlevel students did not perceive hookup culture differently from upperlevel students. Finally, it was found that participants in a relationship did not perceive hookup culture differently than single participants. Implications for the study’s results include the possible development of sexual educational programs to address perceptions about peers’ rates of hooking up versus reality in order to alleviate social pressures that those highly susceptible to influence might feel.

SPIRIT MITSAQAN GHALIDZA DALAM PERNIKAHAN SEBAGAI PENGUAT KELUARGA DI KALIMANTAN TENGAH

This article tries to describe the opaque facts of divorce in Central Kalimantan. Because divorce is a life disaster, because the impact will be many ranging from children who become victims, family breakdowns, to the economy. This type of article is literature research with retrospective methods or looking at existing problems and then looking for solutions. Namely through the values of mitsaqan ghaliza, the results of this writing include the values of mitsaqan ghaliza teaching sincerity, full of commitment in building a family, because marriage is a sacred bond containing divine commitment not only with a partner but also involving Allah SWT. Then, one of the bright promises when there is a marriage is Muasyarah Bilma'ruf or hooking up well. These values will become the initial foundation for strengthening the family.

Hooking up with friends: LGBTQ+ young people, dating apps, friendship and safety

Research exploring digital intimate publics tends to consider social media platforms and dating/hook-up apps separately, implying distance between social and sexual communication practices. This paper troubles that delineation by drawing on LGBTQ+ young people’s accounts of negotiating safety and risk in dating/hook-up apps, in which friendship practices are significant. We explore four key themes of friendship that arose in our analysis of interviews and workshop discussions: sharing mutuals (or friends-in-common) with potential dates/hook-ups; making friends through apps; friends supporting app negotiations; and friends’ involvement in safety strategies. Through analysis of these data, we firstly argue that friendship is often both an outcome and an organising force of LGBTQ+ young people’s uses of dating/hook-up apps, and secondly, that media sites commonly defined as social (e.g. Instagram) or sexual (e.g. Tinder) are imbricated, with friendship contouring queer sex and dating practices.