Thanks to humankind’s fondness for both talking and humping, we’ve been gossiping about sex from the moment we were socially able to do so. But — as we know — the internet changes everything, including campus culture, where gossiping about sex has become a dedicated online pastime. Judging by the rising popularity of college hookup websites, Consent 2.0 might have to go beyond “this is what I’m comfortable doing, physically,” to include, “please don’t brag about my oral sex skills — or lament my lack thereof — on Facebook to thousands of my peers.” That seems unlikely.
UC Berkeley Hookups is a Facebook page that allows students to anonymously dish about their sexual exploits — it’s received some media attention as of late, since sex + coeds will always = googly-eyed readers. But there are tons of other colleges with similar Facebook pages and Twitter feeds to their name: UCSB Hookups has over 8,000 likes (UC Berkeley’s page has around 3,000) while USC Hookups has nearly 1,700. All “Hookups” pages have a fair number of racist, sexist and homophobic posts, most comments detail how blacked-out one or both parties were at the time, and some of the people being discussed seem rather identifiable.
From UCSB Hookups:
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