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= Hookup Culture =

History/Basic info
Hooking up is usually seen as a casual somewhat sexual encounter that is noncommittal and may or may not actually involve sexual intercourse.

Behavioral norms
There is also a difference between men and women when it comes to casual sex. Where men use hooking up to increase sexual experiences and gain their manhood, women tend to hook up with the hopes of it becoming a long-term relationship and to satisfy their partner.

College
There have been several studies conducted that found men emerging into adulthood have a higher number of casual sex partners and will engage in more casual sex as opposed to women. It also seems that hooking up has replaced much of the dating scene on a lot of U.S. college campuses, though men and women’s definition of hook ups varied.

6.3 Sexual Marketplace
The sexual marketplace runs based on men creating the demand for sex and women supplying the sex at a high price in order to obtain resources, monetarily or emotionally. This is a marketplace where men will exchange women’s resources like love, intimacy, status, respect, money and even long-term commitment in order to obtain sex. The price stems from the high demand and low supply, forcing men to offer a substantial amount in order to obtain sex because women are motivated to keep the supply of sex low. Due to the strength of the male sexual desire, men are put at a disadvantage when negotiating and this creates the basis of the marketplace. Sex is seen as a female resource and since sex with women is seen as a commodity, it makes it more valuable and allows women to restrict the sexual supply. It is known that in Western society female virginity, chastity and virtuous reputation is seen as a positive value and by treating sex as a female resource, it proves that cultures give female sexuality a higher value than the sexuality of a male. In most of these exchanges, women are giving their valued resources in return for other valued goods like love rather than men's sexual encounters since the value of male sexuality is lower than that of women. Since sex is seen as something that men want from women, men will offer other types of resources in exchange for sex while women will give no resources to men for sex. The continuation of the sexual double standard between men and women may be due to the motivations behind men and women’s hook ups. While the sexual marketplace makes it seem that women hold all the power, most women report engaging in casual sex in order to satisfy their partners and increase the possibility of it turning into a long-term, monogamous relationship where men use casual sex to increase their sexual experience and explore themselves before being tied down by marriage.

DUMP ZONE/EXTRA THINGS I MIGHT ADD
The sexual marketplace is a big part of the sexual economics theory, which is based on the social exchange theory, so knowing the basics of the social economic theory will be helpful in understanding the sexual marketplace. Baumeister and Vohs borrowed principles of economic theory and applied it to sexual behaviors, therefore creating the sexual economics theory. It calls attention to the observation that women’s sexual favors are worth more than those of men. The social exchange theory is made up of rewards and costs, and analyzes these costs and rewards. It is assumed that in each situation where there is an exchange, each person either gains something or gives something. By applying these economic principles to social situations, we can predict the possible behavioral outcomes.

When men and women have sex, women are giving something of value to the men, making the action one sided, unless there are other resources that the man can provide the female. While it is usually costly when women restrict other women's sexuality, when depriving men of easy sexual access, it can cause benefits to women that some can see as an offset to that restraint of sexuality.

Because of the investment that men make, whether it be time, money or intimacy, they feel entitled and will become expectant of sexual favors (Sprecher, 1998) ..