Are we really com­ing to a world where all we have to do is log on to get off?

This past week I read an arti­cle where a University of Chicago under­grad­u­ate stu­dent started UchicagoHookups​.com, an online casual sex site. Students from the U of C can log onto the site to find suit­able sex part­ners for a no-strings-attached night of plea­sure. The web­site has become so pop­u­lar, Northwestern and Columbia College are now allowed to log on and find sex­ual part­ners as well.

After the pop­u­lar­ity of social media sites, I can see this web­site tak­ing off. It is almost too easy to find sex with this for­mat and there­fore destroys the value of a rela­tion­ship. Sex is an act that should only be prac­ticed by two com­mit­ted peo­ple in a rela­tion­ship, not some quick night with a stranger.

I am not igno­rant to the pre-marital sex issue and I know it hap­pens. This is not even a reli­gious argu­ment; this is more of a self respect issue. When you start giv­ing your body away over the Internet, what else do you have? Sooner or later peo­ple will just think of you as an object and noth­ing more.

Giving away sex to any­one lets every­one know you have no respect for your­self and what goes in and out of your body. Sex, a once thought sacred act, now is done with no emo­tional attach­ment. People are even­tu­ally going to have sex until there is no mean­ing behind it or the peo­ple doing the act.

The spread of dis­eases would just be astro­nom­i­cal after this as well. How are we sup­posed to know if they have dis­eases, is there a box they will have to check? With sex becom­ing such a casual inter­ac­tion, will we just fail to ask about past expe­ri­ences before continuing?

My main prob­lem with this web­site is that it glo­ri­fies mean­ing­less sex. This website’s sole pur­pose is to allow peo­ple to hook up and noth­ing more. This is com­pletely dif­fer­ent from the reg­u­lar online dat­ing site where two part­ners build rela­tion­ships and find suit­able matches. Instead, this site is just find­ing a warm body for the night.

Sites like this should not be around; it opens the door to a soci­ety where we can put an “open” sign around our body and give our­selves away. Once we start to dehu­man­ize our bod­ies, we really start to lose respect for each other and then we become an emo­tion­less, empty soul run­ning around.

People often for­get the biggest side effects of casual sex: kids. Condom or not, sooner or later lit­tle off­spring will pop out and teen moms will be the norm. If kids are not wanted, many turn to abor­tion, another dis­grace­ful act to the human body.

Overall, I don’t have a prob­lem with the act, but if it hap­pens, I hope peo­ple will under­stand there needs to be feel­ing behind it. With sites like this, I hope peo­ple make smart deci­sions before they indulge. n

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