New college Web site for casual sex spreading the love across U.S.
Leslie Philp
Casual sex has always been up for debate for many people, but when it comes to the new Web site www.eduhookups.com, college students from different universities around the United States can find sex partners with ease. The site has only been up for one month but already has many college campuses on board including the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University and, as of April 4, Brown University.
When asked if the site was immoral, fitness major Cody Negrette disagrees and believes people have the right to have the freedom of choice.
“If people want to do it, that’s great, but it sounds pretty STD spreading-like,” said Negrette. “There’s lots of people that would object to it and there’s lots of people that wouldn’t admit to liking it.”
Colleges joining the hookup circuit in later weeks are School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Washington University in St. Louis, Yale University, University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Within the past 30 days of being available to the public, the site has received over 815,000 hits and has registered 1,300 members, whose majority is male.
“I just think it’ll spread more STDs that are already running ramped through college campuses and cause a lot of problems and more unplanned pregnancies,” said Allison Giroux, an early childhood education major. “You’re going to end up hooking up with someone that you don’t really know and it’s going to be a sketchy situation.”
Alison Benedick, illustration major, fears the site will lead to women being put in harmful situations that could lead to rape.
Both Benedick and Giroux said they would never put any of their information on a Web site designed for college students to find sex partners.
The site’s founders hope to encourage their classmates to engage in causal sexual encounters by using the motto “Chastity is curable if detected early.”
“If it came to ASU or MCC, it would be worse than it already is and ASU is already pretty bad. I don’t think it’ll make it here though, maybe, maybe I’m wrong,” Giroux said.
