seeking sexual relations. The author also states that hookup culture has little to do with the change of sex culture itself, but more on the mating market and sex-ratio imbalances, (Rhoads 2012).
For women, casual sex is not a good fit for the average American woman. According to Rhoads, the vast majority of women that he has taught in his classes have reported being dissatisfied with today’s hookup culture, (Rhoads 2012). Women are more cautious in nature when it comes to the partners that they choose to initiate a serious romantic relationship or sexual encounter. Women are more inclined to have an emotional response when choosing to engage in sexual acts with men. Rhoads also states that “if men who these women hook up with do call again, they often only want more hookups, and, as soon as the women push for a real relationship, the men break it off (Rhoads 2012). This is a problem for women because intercourse produces feelings of vulnerability as well as the feeling of being used when they do not get the same desired emotional investment from their partners. The more lifetime partners a woman has, the more likely they are to be depressed, the more likely they are to cry almost every day, as well as an overall dissatisfaction with their lives (Rhoads 2012). This dissatisfaction felt by women after casual sex often goes underreported because women are ashamed that they quickly develop feelings for the men that treat them like strangers the very next day.