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George Malek says he thinks many college students are getting into relationships and dealing with emotional intimacy.
"One night stands are pretty rare," he said.
Despite Malek's (senior-physics) beliefs, students say the hook up has replaced the casual date on college campuses, according to a Stanford University professor's study.
Professor Paula England surveyed more than 4,000 students.The study included students at seven universities across the country.
"I'm trying to understand the whole undergraduate hook up culture," she said.
The survey asked about students' experiences with and attitudes toward hooking up, dating and relationships.
By senior year, surveyed students reported having, on average, 6.9 hook ups; 28 percent have had 10 or more and 24 percent have never hooked up, according to the study.
According to the study, about a quarter of all hook ups don't go further than making out.
The percent of hook ups that involve sexual intercourse is between 35 and 40 percent, the study reported.
"It is sort of a relatively new phenomenon," England said. "It's been developing for about 20 years."
Today's hook up culture is a way of having some sexual behavior, but more casually, England said.
"[In a relationship] you have to be devoted to being intimate, which is not an easy thing. "I think the majority [of student relationships fall] somewhere in the middle range, where they have people they know and know pretty well but don't give their entire selves to, plus the sexual component," Malek said.
"You just really can't separate the two: sex and emotion."
Simon Holowatz, community health educator at University Health Services, also said hooking up "is kind of different than it was 10 years ago."
One of the study's main conclusions is the disparity between men and women in a hook up partnership, England said.
"In hook ups, there is a really big orgasm gap between the sexes," she said.
The study reports that of all hook ups, regardless of what sexual activity took place, 44 percent of men experienced an orgasm and 19 percent of women did.
Couples are more likely to engage in behavior that prioritizes male pleasure and orgasm, England said.
Although most hook ups don't result in relationships, most relationships start with hook ups, England added.
But students hook up for different reasons, one of which might be commitment issues, she said.
The survey asked participants if they had ever hooked up with someone and then disrespected him or her.
More men answered yes than women, England said.
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