Uptown Affairs is a column for The Tulane Hullabaloo, addressing sex, hookup culture and all things dating. If you are a Tulane student, you can submit an anonymous story to be featured here.  Please...

I started hooking up with this guy at the beginning of last semester. It was just pure fun, casual sex. Whenever either one of us was horny enough, he would come over, pick me up and bring me to his place....

“You know me, I'm off in the cut Always like a squirrel lookin’ for a nut This is a fo’ sho, I'm not talkin’ 'bout luck I'm not talking 'bout love, I'm talking 'bout luck”  Anyone...

 This article is entirely satire. All information and interviews below are fictional and for entertainment purposes only. There is nothing like a sweaty, grinding make-out at The Boot that leads...

Long gone are the days of meeting someone in a dimly lit jazz club with stolen glances and love at first sight. Replacing the old fashioned romance game are dating apps such as Tinder, Bumble and Hinge....

Lisa Wade, an associate professor of sociology and author of the book “American Culture: The New Culture of Sex on Campus” is currently studying hookup culture and how it has altered due to the pandemic. “When...

Long gone are the days of the post-night-out hookup, when one could find validation from a complete stranger after their true person of interest ignored them at the party earlier that evening. COVID-19...

For many closeted gay high school kids, college was the beaming light at the end of the tunnel. Confined to  small suburban hometowns and stifled by the ignorance of our young peers, we knew that...

"It gets me laid," says Brian* with a shrug. "So, there's that." Brian, a freshman from Chicago, is a frequent user of the popular dating app, Tinder. Tinder and other online dating apps are often...

“Hookup culture” has become a common phrase in today’s society. It describes a culture in which many people have casual sexual experiences with one another, often looking for encounters with no...