What Do You Think About Casual Sex?

Rewire's beloved expert on sex and young people needs your help! Heather Corinna is on the prowl for some great information for a study on multi-generational attitudes and experiences about casual sex. Can you help?

Heather Corinna, Rewire’s resident expert on sex, sexual health and young people, is continuing her large study on multigenerational experiences with and attitudes about casual sex with a short follow-up study. The follow-up should only take 5-10 minutes.  If you did not yet take the first study, that is more intensive and will take around a half hour.

The data from the first-study will ideally be used for publication, but answers are completely anonymous and will only be used anonymously.

There’s a lot of buzz now about “hooking up,” the newest term for casual sex, though casual sex isn’t new at all — nor does it only belong to the current generation, despite often being presented that way. Unlike most of the buzz out there, she’s not interested in telling anyone how to have sex, warning people off any given kind of sex or in presenting any one kind of sex as “the best way.” She’s just looking for what’s real, both in sexual attitudes and experiences among a diverse array of ages, genders and sexual identities, races and sexual ideologies/constructions.

The only requirements for participating in this study are being over the age of 16, and having had some kind of sexual partnership before, even if none has been casual.She would like the study to show as diverse an array of people as possible, especially since so often media representations or cultural conversations about casual sex are usually only about heterosexual white women or about gay men. She particularly wants to be sure LGBT people, people of color, men, those over 45 and social conservatives are adequately represented, so please share this link far and wide after you take the survey yourself, especially if your networks include people in any or all of those groups.

By the way, Heather is not only Rewire’s rockstar resident sex-pert, she’s a whirlwhind of amazing. Heather has been working in human sexuality for around 12 years. She is the founder and executive director for Scarleteen.com, does sex education outreach at youth shelters and women’s clinics in Seattle, and has been a sex columnist and writer online for sites like The Guardian and Rewire. She has also been published in a handful of anthologies and is the author of S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know-Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College (DaCapo Press).  If you have any questions, you can contact Heather here: http://www.scarleteen.com/contact.