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Opinion

Maybe mindless sex not best idea

Reid Midgett
Opinion Columnist

Oh, how marvelous college can be! The places you will go, the parties you will attend, the drinks you will consume and the people you will meet. College presents opportunities to partake of -- activities that just aren't as available in high school or even after you graduate from college.

If you tried, you could find a party to go to on campus every night. And everyone knows that parties are the perfect place to lose all your inhibitions and engage in various unreserved activities.

I've attended quite a few parties since I began my attendance at UH. At each one I've been to, I have observed the same thing: debilitating amounts of booze and sex. Many times, these activities of the latter involve two people who did not know each other before they happened to catch each other's blood-shot eyes at the party. 

So two people, who are most likely too drunk to walk straight, engage in a sexual experience one night and walk away the next day and will, quite possibly, never talk to each other again, unless, of course, they see each other at a different party, in a different state of intoxication and decide to give it another go. Not to mention the fact that many times, the effects of alcohol can cause one to forget the ever-important use of protection. 

This is not meant to be a crusade against the rampant sex and use of alcohol that occurs in colleges across the nation. Nor is it meant to condemn those who have the mindless and unprotected sex that is so common these days. 

Sex used to be a respected act -- one that existed for two people who cared for each other, not the meaningless string of one-night stands it has become. Sex has become a social activity, no different from getting trashed with your friends or going to a football game. 

It has been degraded and transformed from its original purpose: to bring two people who care for each other even closer together by forming the deepest of bonds. It has become just another thing to do when you're drunk and looking for a good time. It doesn't matter that you can't remember the person's name and that after those few minutes of pleasure, you will never talk again. It just matters that those few moments are worthwhile.

This doesn't even take into account the danger of STDs or pregnancy. But what could be worse than finding out you now have a disease because you had sex with someone you knew nothing about? Or even worse, you or your mysterious partner got pregnant?

People have a choice. I am not condemning your choice. If you want to go and have crazy, drunk sex, be my guest. Just be careful with your choice of who to be with and when you do it. And who knows, maybe if you wait to have sex with someone you truly cared about and truly had feelings for, it might be just that much better than the few meaningless moments you have with a complete stranger.

Midgett, an opinion columnist for The Daily Cougar, 
can be reached at onenationunderlink@gmail.com.