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Alicia Walker, assistant professor of sociology at Missouri State University, recently released the results of research they did on college students, sexual identity and sexual behavior.

That recommend free lesbian dating sites duly fact was enough for pop culture blogs to run with their headlines, but all is not what it may seem in the media coverage straight from the research paper. More importantly, that sexual experimentation has very little to do with gay labels people currently use or may one day use in the future to describe gay identity.

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For the overwhelming majority of students, researchers say, experimentation is just that. Some students wanted to explore and liked it, she said. The researchers say their work actually reflects a critical look into incredibly common sexual behavior and experimentation, offering clues as to how individuals think of sex, sexuality and identity.

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Those myths apply to women, too, though in different ways. It can vary from person to person, or culturally from campus to campus or city to city.

A hookup could be making out, oral sex or intercourse or any number of other sexual activities. Part of the purpose of the original, larger study was finding out exactly what people meant by the word. Those things can still be activities that put you at risk for disease transmission. So, what exactly did the researchers find? For the most part, they say, the research backs up many of the theories advanced from a variety of disparate studies on sexual identity formation and sexual experimentation.

We found that all the theories hookup true. The largest of their identified groups, Kuperberg and Walker found that 29 percent of students enjoyed the experience and were the most likely to have had prior same-sex anal or vaginal sex. More than two-thirds had some kind of genital contact during the encounter and had the second-highest desire for a later relationship with their partner.

This group was also the most likely to identify as politically liberal and had positive views of premarital sex and consensual sex generally. This group also had the lowest level of hookup sexual activity, with most opting not to proceed past kissing or groping.

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Students in this group were the most likely to have been drinking during the encounter. Comprised of straight all women 92 percentthis group seemed to enjoy their same-sex experience, but were also highly religious, with 45 percent saying they attended religious services at least once a month. Their specific religious views on homosexuality were mixed, and this group had the highest rate 71 percent of enjoyment for the gay. Kuperberg said this group was the likeliest to one day in the future change their sexual identity. Maybe as they get older and more separated from their home communities, hookup confident and have more experience, they may change their identity.

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The last and final group was the smallest, coming in at only seven percent, but perhaps the most intriguing. Still, they were engaging in the experimentation anyway. These are people who I think have an internal conflict between their beliefs and their attractions.

For both Walker and Kuperberg, their research represents exciting new ways to help bust long-held myths about sexual behavior and ways to help create healthier environments for straight and exploring sexuality.

For Walker, the study was a breath of fresh air, exposing new ideas on how people actually relate to one another, despite the labels society thrusts on people. Walker thinks that if society can break down the walls of this social-sexual pressure, that we can each have more healthy discourse on hookup sexuality means for our lives. People do. Sometimes it means something. Matt Comer previously served as editor from October through August and as a staff writer afterward in More by Matt Comer. What about a bi or pan identity?

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