Casual Sex Only Leads to Casual Stress.

Sexual hookups have now become a major culture in the United States and many other parts of the Western Hemisphere. While this culture is particularly prevalent among men and women in their early twenties, it is also a form of orientation among teenagers.

With the gap between puberty and entry into marriage getting ever wider, these teenagers and young adults are turning more and more to casual relationships as a way to express and satisfy their emotional needs through sex. 

In the United States, this issue has already reached an epidemic level. Unfortunately, it is often too late for these young people to realize that casual sex only leads to casual stress. The stress here is a summary of long-time physical and emotional pains. And the worse victims of the epidemic are the female participants.

Fortunately, this issue has attracted the interest of social scientists. For instance, a Kinsey Institute researcher, Justin Garcia and his team from SUNY analyzed its grave physical and psychological impacts in a 2012 comprehensive review. Hear them:

“In addition to risks of contracting STDs, unwanted pregnancies, and being raped or otherwise assaulted, people who engage in casual sex may suffer emotional consequences that persist long past the details of the encounter are but a dim memory.  On college campuses, where brief sexual liaisons are as prevalent as parties on a Friday night, the unanticipated results of a hookup can jeopardize a student’s career.  In the workplace, the results can be just as disastrous, if not more so.”