Our stigmatization of emotions in the context of hookup hurts people of all genders

The rules of the old hookups are simple: no feelings and no connection. Don't be embarrassed when they go to bed with others. Don't be sexy or insecure. Don't behave as if you like them very much, or would like to see them again. Don't be angry if they stop sending text messages. If you have feelings, then you must want to turn them into a serious, loyal relationship.

Wait, this doesn't sound so simple. While casual one night hookup can't contain any real emotions, ostensibly to make things fun and easy for everyone, a lot of emotional self-monitoring can actually be exhausting.

Some of them are refutations of the metaphor of sexual negation, that is, making love inevitably leads people to find friends, especially women, to fall in love, so they should not make love before marriage. This statement is wrong.

However, for many people, lovemaking does cause emotions. Sometimes positive and sometimes negative. It can deepen existing attachments and create new ones. Even if you have a feeling for someone, you can still choose to stay arbitrarily, or you can talk to them and see if they are interested in making your relationship more serious.

Even if the feeling you experience in the hook up scene is not related to the relationship itself, they may still be worth dealing with or expressing.

If your partner does something that makes you tempted sexually, they need to know that even if you don't plan to see them again tonight. If you don't want to elaborate it, you don't have to, but the fact is that in the process of hookup, some things may make you feel bad. This is nothing to be ashamed of. This does not mean that your hookup is "wrong.

In the hookup culture, the way in which emotions are stigmatized is often related to gender. Women's emotions are considered to be "crazy" and "sticky", while men's emotions make others think they are not "man" and strong enough.

These metaphors of gender discrimination do not help anyone to establish healthy relationships, including casual hookups. You can expect that your encounter does not include a lot of emotional communication, but it also does not imply that your partner's emotions are wrong or shameful.

In practice, there are many mistakes in the number of hookups, but that doesn't mean we have to dump it. Many people feel that casual sexual encounter gives strength, is very interesting, and does not regret at all.

If you don't, even if it's just because you have had a bad experience in the past, that's reasonable, no one should force you to have random hookups. I have been in that place for a while, and some people stayed in that place longer than me, even forever. It is okay to choose to make love only in a committed relationship or not to make love at all.