Sexual Double standard

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Sexual Double Standard
Overview
There is an endless idea that the ideal woman should not have sexual partners or have one person, at most, that she will marry, while a real man is one who has many sexual partners, particularly when married. After some time, the conception that a man can be as sexual as he wants while a woman must not, to remain respected, has been promoted. These notions have developed concepts which influence how people better comprehend the society they live in, disregarding who it threatens. One report indicated that “women, I argue from analogy, are degraded by the same propensity to enjoy the present moment; and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain” (Wollstonecraft 32). In the same line, terms like slut put into effect sexual double standards since they degrade any female suspected or known to have more than one sexual spouse, while they acclaim a male. These terms have attained a lot of influence in the media and have avoided several individuals from observing the way they undermine a woman’s value. In this light, the media promotes this disrespect to women by propagating words about a woman having insignificant to no worth if she is suspected to have had sexual spouses. As an event of sexual double standards, hooking-up in college campuses is common today and influences the culture and society.
Discussion of the Sexual Double Standards
A sexual double standard entails the idea that women and men are viewed differently with regards to similar behaviors (Penhollow, Young and Nnaka 93).

The concept seems to be prevalent in several research studies. The implication is that the society maintains different standards for the classes of behaviors that are suitable for men and these vary from the behaviors that are judged as suitable for women. Viewpoints that people have in regards to what is suitable behaviors for women and me are influenced by a pool of social standards. Frequently, women face more negative judgment for involving in different types of sexual conducts and men are perceived more positively for taking part in similar sexual behaviors. Thus, men are permitted greater sexual liberty and activity. There is change over time concerning the specific activities that invoke perception against women. There is proof of the constant occurrence of sexual double standards. Nevertheless, due to the sexual revolution, the more permissive mentality has been imparted, and sex before marriage has become more normative for both women and men (Penhollow, Young and Nnaka 96). What is more, research literature has varied results in regards to the sexual double standard. Accordingly, men are frequently permitted more sexual tolerance and judged with more tolerance and approval concerning the sexual activities and number of sexual spouses as compared to women who involve in similar conducts (Penhollow, Young and Nnaka 97). The arrays of behaviors that possibly have significant sexually transmitted infections (STIs) risks and unplanned pregnancy are the possible dangerous sexual activity of hooking-up or engaging in sexual acts without emotional attachment or commitment. Both women and men have indicated hooking-up as a phenomenon that brings enjoyment in the sexual experiences, which further satisfy their sexual needs outside of an intimate or committed relationship, enabling them to concentrate their moment on career and academic goals. One study has indicated that “the association between lifetime sexual partnerships and peer status varies significantly by gender, such that greater numbers of sexual partners are positively correlated with boys’ peer acceptance, but negatively correlated with girls’ peer acceptance” (Penhollow, Young and Nnaka 98). Besides, some studies have shown that the hooking-up activity can be empowering and advantageous to women, alongside their sexuality. On the other hand, this current event of hooking-up has been seen in some studies as a process that make women more probable to encounter adverse physical, social, and emotional impacts linked to it as compared to their male colleagues. The hooking-up incidence in various institutions of learning, such as colleges, has been associated with the use of a condom. The sexual double standard event of hooking-up has been examined by several studies in regards to the attitude of using a condom during sex and how the application is judged for men and women. In this light, women’s conducts have been rated more negatively and as more unfitting when they offered the condom than when their male spouses offered the condom. Obstacles to condom negotiation during sex include the inaccurate misperceptions or stereotypes about the need to use condoms and sexual double standards (Penhollow, Young and Nnaka 101). These stereotypes and judgments can have serious health effects like unwanted pregnancies and STIs.
Sexual double standards in the today’s society are no more looked at in such a conventional style as when females were only viewed for taking part in sex before marriage. Sexual double standards today may be more shaped by media channels, sexual identity, and body representation (Fasula, Carry and Miller 175). The occurrence exists to weaken women. Nonetheless, both genders/sexes encounter their category of general social duties within the society. Some studies have determined that the culture of hooking-up may empower women by enhancing their sexual expression freedom, while the findings from other studies indicate that women remain to be humiliated and encounter regret after hooking-up. Furthermore, females search for relationships when in college to enable them to get married immediately after their graduation. Again, they also look for relationships as opposed to just hooking up because when females hook up with multiple companions, they are frequently viewed as being immoral or stereotypes as a slut. Several women would opt to be in a committed bond to uphold their status. On the other hand, men encounter no stigmatization when they hook up with multiple women, yet women are profoundly criticized when they engage in the same activities. Males are inclined to be praised or congratulated for hooking up with several women (Fasula, Carry and Miller 178). A woman who hooks up with multiple partners is just viewed as easy and disrespected by her colleagues. Accordingly, one study confirmed that females are weak beings and, therefore, cannot achieve pleasure by mentioning that “pleasure is the business of woman’s life, according to the present modification of society, and while it continues to be so, little can be expected from such weak beings” (Heather Hensman Kettrey 1).
Apart from the woman’s sexual behavior, another issue that can result in women being negatively judged is how they dress and converse with others. Males usually perceive females who dress seductively as those who were searching for a hook up with a man. Females must be more aware of their conducts than men do when going to parties. In some cases, women are not even allowed to attend parties or perform certain tasks. For instance, one study revealed that “proper Athenian women were not supposed to go out in public except to a religious festival or a funeral, and that all the writers and actors were male” (Bordo 33). Whereas males take part in the same activities, a female will be negatively branded if she drinks a lot or appears to be seducing. Besides, while men wish to hook up with multiple females, they do not desire to date a female who has dated multiple men. Concerning the engagement in hooking-up tradition in college, females are extremely underprivileged. Females usually date other students since it is the only alternative, and some may even date someone, hoping that a relationship may emerge. Similarly, females are severely criticized if they behave as sexual as males do. It is thought that males can create negative statuses in college, but they are not as detrimental as a female may be (Fasula, Carry and Miller 180). In the same vein, men are more probable to receive a negative status for heartbreaking a woman than for engaging in sexual activities with multiple females. Nevertheless, the status may just be viewed as bad by females and not males. In contrast, when a female is perceived as a slut, both women and men scrutinize her conduct severely.
Furthermore, females are taught from their young age to conquer their desires and sexuality, but males are not told similar things. Females are taught that they should not enjoy sex to the extent that males do, and, when a female does, she is frequently branded as a slut. It is difficult for people to avoid the sexual double standard between women and men because it starts at a very early stage of life. Subsequently, the sexual double standards are seen in several movies and TV shows. Many movies and TV shows like Casanova display the men as having sex with multiple females without being censured by the society or peers (Heather Hensman Kettrey 1). Across all time, it has been agreeable for men to have numerous sexual intercourses with females outside of marriage, yet females are required to be clean for their men who will marry them in future. Rather than opposing the sexual double standard between women and men, both genders and society remain to preserve it by criticizing females who have sexual interactions with multiple males. Accordingly, one scholar showed that “the grand source of female folly and vice has ever appeared to me to arise from narrowness of mind; and the very constitution of civil governments has put almost insuperable obstacles in the way to prevent the cultivation of the female understanding” (Wollstonecraft 44). It is profoundly discriminating for males to expected females to fulfill a standard that they cannot be willing to accomplish.
Conclusion: Sociocultural Impacts of Hooking-Up in College Campuses as a current Event
Hooking-Up in College Campuses can have substantial adverse impacts on health behaviors and attitudes. Societal perceptions of femininity and masculinity still occur. Nevertheless, some judgments have altered, and patterns will remain to shift after some time. The event puts females at a substantial risk than males if it shapes their pre-emptive health behaviors, which assist in safeguarding against unwanted/unplanned pregnancies and STIs. Therefore, it is necessary to encourage alertness and come up with education interventions to curb the labels that originate from the hooking-up and the sexual double standards which may conquer in the society that could act as obstacles to involving in healthy activities. Again, the hooking-up can remove the story of male rape. If males are usually oppressing females, the notion that males can be raped by females is impossible. It is, however, recognized that male rape exists in the society. This further promotes men discrimination because it is widely thought that it is a crime against females.

Works Cited
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Heather Hensman Kettrey, The Conversation. “Campus Hookups: Double Standards and Disempowerment.” CNN. N.p., 2018. Web. 19 Feb. 2018.
Penhollow, Tina M., Michael Young, and Tonychris Nnaka. “Alcohol Use, Hooking-Up, Condom Use: Is There a Sexual Double Standard?.” American Journal of Health Behavior 41.1 (2017): 92-103.
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