Benefits/Risks of Dating and Hooking-Up: Personal Examples

In today’s society, it’s acceptable for people to “hookup.” In my life, I have both been in relationships and have also hooked up. Speaking from experience, I’m going to go over the benefits and risks of both.

For dating, the benefits could be having someone to confide in, and feeling liked and love. In my personal opinion, it’s about having that “best friend.” With relationships, you also basically get another family. The risks of being in a relationship are getting hurting, having a broken heart, losing a friendship, and being rejected. The biggest risk for me would be getting hurt. In the past, I have been cheated on and lied to several times. Today, I feel scared to be in another relationship because of that. Another risk I would add is fighting. Fighting within relationships can lead to stress and anger.

Let’s move on the hooking up. Some benefits from hookups would be having no strings attached, it’s could be fun and exciting, that feeling of being wanted and desired, and feeling sexually gratified. I can personally speak on having it be fun and exciting. It’s something new, especially if you’re just getting out of a new relationship. A personal benefit I would add is having that person help you get over your previous relationship. Maybe all you needed was “closure” from the past, and the hookup potentially helped you. There are risks to hooking up however. The number one risk would be contracting an STI. For females, the biggest risk they think is wanting a relationship but the other person doesn’t. And basically the opposite, for men, it’s the other person that wants a relationship and not them. Personally, the biggest risk is getting a sexually transmitted disease, and possibly getting feelings for that person.

Those are just a couple benefits and risks in both being in a relationship and hooking up.