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Introduction to ‘millennial’ love Jenna Butz

Special Projects Editor Every day, millennials are reminded that we’re overeducated, underemployed, debt-ridden, stuck living with our parents and unable to commit to jobs, religions or romantic partners. Research centers, media outlets and our parents are obsessed with figuring out the “mystery” of millennials and particularly the mystery of millennial dating habits.

And every time a movie or television show comes out with a 20-something lead who engages in any sort of sex, think tanks begin to wonder: are all millennials like this? Afraid of commitment and unable to control their sexual appetites?

Yet, as Amanda Luckett, graduate assistant for the Vols 2 Vols Peer Health Educators, this speculation from older generations is nothing new.

“Even if you look historically, the media always makes the younger generation sound like they’re totally progressive, free loving, and I feel like that’s happening for us now,” Luckett said. “Millennials are frequently depicted as the hook up culture and talking more and more about sex, but I think that’s been done for every generation, starting in the 20s. The younger generation has always been viewed as more sexually liberated.”

On dating According to the 2017 “Singles in America” conducted by Match.com, millennials are 125 percent more likely than any older generation to say we are addicted to the process of dating. Men are 97 percent more likely than women to admit they feel addicted to dating, while 54 percent of women report burnout to the dating process.

Part of this burnout though comes from this tidbit: one-third of online daters have never actually been on a date without someone they connected with online, Pew reports. Even though this generation is all about dating apps, with Tinder boasting 26 million matches a day, only eight percent of those ages 18 to 29 have met their significant other through these means.

The reasons these matches don’t work out are many. Online profiles are often misleading, with 54 percent of those on dating

apps reporting meeting people who “seriously misrepresented themselves” online.

Online dating also emphasizes attractiveness over personality as well as pickiness, “eliminating potential partners based on everything from the shows they watch to their political preferences,” economist and online dating expert Paul Oyer reported in Psychology Today.

On marriage According to a 2014 report by the Urban Institute, more than 30 percent of millennial women will remain unmarried by the age of 40, which is nearly twice as high as that of Generation X women. However, the importance of marriage has been changing since our generation appeared nearly 30 years ago.

Overall, more and more of us are living together or starting families without marriage all together.

However, Bentley University reported that 70 percent of us still would like to get married, but where marriage was once the entrance into adulthood, now “many people feel they have to be more established, especially financially, before they walk down the aisle,” CNN Money reported, with 75 percent of young Americans expressing this sentiment compared to 55 percent of older Americans.

Despite our generation’s aversion to traditional marriage though, we express enthusiasm for same-sex unions, cohabitation, casual romance and open relationships—types of relationships that our parents may have felt differently about at our age.

Further, there’s evidence that millennials support marriage arrangements that would allow them to renegotiate or dissolve marriages within so many years, according to a study conducted by the USA Network.

On sex According to Billie Amatus-Salaam, wellness coordinator at the Center for Health, Education and Wellness, the biggest change when it comes to millennials and sex is what we’re willing to talk about.

“I think there are a lot of different sexual activities that get talked about a lot more now than they did back in (older) generations,” Amatus-Salaam said. “We know that people were engaging in more than just penetrative sex back in the day, but it wasn’t necessarily talked about. Just because it wasn’t in the forefront doesn’t

necessarily mean it wasn’t happening, but I do think now there are more conversations around different sexual activity that folks might engage in.”

In addition to being more open about sexual activity, we are also more aware of and concerned with non-heterosexual, non-cisgender sex. Looking at events such as Sex Week, which hosts a range of events related to LGBTQ+ sexual health, students want sex education that goes beyond heterosexual, penetrative sex.

“I think that shift is happening also because of how young people are identifying in terms gender and sexual orientation, and folks are, even though it may be difficult to be out about things like that, folks are more out and are more willing to seek that information,” Amatus-Salaam said. “Where in the past it might have been something that you didn’t really address, and you might not even know where to go to find information about safer sex that pertained to you and what your interests were and what your identity was.”

Despite the image of the sexually promiscuous millennial and our acceptance of extramarital, non-traditional sex though, a study published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior found that millennials born in the 1990s are more than twice as likely to be sexually inactive in our early 20s than the generation before us. Our parents are more sexually active than us.

“The majority of students have one sexual partner—one or two,” Amatus-Salaam said, citing CHEW’s annual Health and Wellness survey. “There are certainly are students who have more, and who engage in that hook up culture, but I think because of our region and the culture associated with being in the South and being religious, there are a lot of students who are waiting to have sex until their married.”

Overall, research is showing that we have fewer sexual partners than those generations before us. Yet, our selectiveness and sexual autonomy can lead to stronger long-term relationships.

“As people have gotten more accepting of all sorts of forms of consensual sex, they’ve gotten much more picky about what constitutes consent,” director of research as the Council on Contemporary Families Stephanie Coontz told the Washington Post. “We are far less accepting of pressured sex.”

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Discretion and fetish: My experience as a (potential) Sugar Baby Bradi Musil

Editor-in-Chief When I made an account on SeekingArrangements.com, my plan was to find men and women — Sugar Daddies, Babies and Mommies — who would let me interview them anonymously about their experience.

In case you’re unaware, a Sugar Daddy is an older, assumedly wealthy* man who wants to “date” a younger partner in exchange for some financial support. I apologize for the asterisks and quotation marks, but it gets a little more complicated than just that, which is why I wanted to interview a variety of users.

It quickly became clear, however, that wasn’t going to happen.

Plastered all over the site are warnings about privacy and discretion. The first thing you do upon making an account is pick a username, and written next to the entry box reads: “Stay safe, don’t use your real name.”

So, I decided the best way to get some answers without getting kicked off the site was to play along and ask Sugar Daddies as many questions as I could before they got tired of me.

Lesson #1: this site is all about safety and privacy.

Almost none of the Sugar Daddy profiles include photos, and if there are public photos, their faces are blurred or only their abdomens are showing. There is an option to upload “private photos” that a user can then grant certain users permission to view. I assumed these were for nudes, but it’s just for married, 60-year-old men to reveal their identity.

“Realistically, most men here are married and looking for some side action,” one user told me, before clarifying he was not such a user.

“I am not married and looking for a fun, smart, clever, possibly submissive young muse.”

Which brings me to my next point. I can’t speak for all Sugar Daddy/Sugar Babies dating sites, but Seeking Arrangements seems to be a hotbed for men looking for BDSM relationships. For as many times as I saw someone’s profile bio say they require discretion, it seemed there were twice as many men looking for willing, “fit” submissives. One message I received said: “Looking for a fit, athletic, attractive, intelligent, submissive woman. Casual, NSA, and cordial: I’m more the protective/mentoring/ affectionate type (with a Sadistic edge) than the ‘trolling for sex’ type. But I do relish control.”

NSA, I quickly learned, means “no strings

attached,” and also seems to be a theme on Seeking Arrangements. Most men say they’re very busy, have a stressful career and are just looking for something drama free and easy.

One user even specified that he wanted “no emotional attachments and limited contact in between meetings.”

Scheduling is of the utmost importance, as well, and each Sugar Daddy I encountered was very specific about wanting to meet either once weekly, two to three times a month or even less frequently. Each time I began to negotiate an arrangement, the conversation took a turn from overly friendly and immediately seductive to very formal and business-like.

“It would be meeting up the two to three times a month,” one user said. “I would like there to be intimacy involved in the arrangement. Although I’m not expecting that right away. And I’m not expecting that every time we meet. Hopefully, that is not a problem for you.”

The most I was offered was a monthly “allowance” of $1,000, but the norm (for our region, at least) seems to be $200 per meeting, which, to be honest, does not seem worth it.

I’ve seen “Pretty Woman,” and I know not to take anything less than $100 an hour.

In my near three weeks on Seeking Arrangements, I only encountered one Sugar

Daddy who was interested in an arrangement without sex, or, as nearly every Sugar Daddy referred to it, “intimacy.”

“How do you feel about getting allowance to sit around and watch Netflix once a month with me?” he asked.

At first, I thought I had hit the Sugar Daddy jackpot. Then, he asked if I would wear handcuffs while we watched. Another user just wanted to lay in bed and “eat all sorts of food.”

So, realization number three: Seeking Arrangements also seems to be a hub for fetishists, which makes perfect sense. In a way, isn’t the whole arrangement a bit of a fetish in and of itself? Nearly every user insisted on only referring to me as their “baby” and treating me like a child, as well. One sent me a message saying, “Why don’t you let me take you out for a grilled cheese sandwich next week?”

Ultimately, the whole Sugar Daddy/Baby seems more like an avenue for men (some users as young as 26) to find a partner who is willing to contract a highly specific, mutually beneficial relationship. Of course, that doesn’t take away the fact that it still just feels like premeditated prostitution. But hey, if you’re willing to watch Netflix while wearing handcuffs, eat grilled cheese sandwiches in bed or bang a married dude, maybe give Seeking Arrangements a try.

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someone do you typically have sex?|

“I don't put a time stamp on it. I make that decision based on when I feel ready and when I feel comfortable with taking that step.”

Would you be comfortable dating outside of your political affiliation?

“Absolutely not. I date people I could potentially see myself marrying, and marrying outside of my political affiliation would not be something I would do. I respect everyone's political views, but that would pose a multitude of problems in our daily lives, especially when it comes to raising children and instilling values into them.”

...OUTSIDE OUTSIDE of YOUR religion?|

“Yes. I already have, and it helped me reimagine and redefine spirituality in ways I wouldn't have thought about before (even though I never converted). Mutual respect is a necessity, though, or it could be disastrous.”

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Saint Valentine is dead, so is the holiday Alex Holcomb Asst. News Editor

“My bloody Valentine!� cried a Catholic wife approximately 800 years ago.

The origin of Valentine’s Day has a few different stories, but most focus on a debatably real Catholic man named Saint Valentine who was martyred either for love or in love. An unrelated pagan death holiday was celebrated in February. Christians used the saint story to compete with pagans, and Valentine’s Day was born.

That’s an interesting story, but why are we still celebrating a possibly real, possibly not, man who died?

Honestly, I don’t have an answer.

Though, I can tell why you we shouldn’t celebrate the pagan death holiday.

To start with, let’s do some math. The traditional Valentine’s date consists of flowers, dinner, chocolate and some activity.

And, since it’s freezing, everyone sees a movie.

For those of you I don’t convince, I’ve heard “Split� is good.

I added the price of those perishable

goods and passing enjoyments, and, a date is spending much more than a journalism major can count to celebrate the death of a guy who may or may not have been real.

Honestly, as UT students, there’s better things to spend money on, like tickets to the championship of life.

Then there’s something else: “define the relationship� talks. DTR talks are not fun for anyone, and Valentine’s Day often forces them to the forefront.

Think back to grade school — third grade, specifically. Imagine that all the kids are asking each other to be their Valentine’s. Now, you look at your prospective Valentine. They are hanging out, drinking the punch Mrs. Armstrong brought for the whole grade; you walk over — knees weak, palms sweaty. You ask them the question. She looks at you, and her laugh defines the relationship.

Maybe that was just me, and that was a bad example.

Still, you get the point. The 14th of

February pushes couples way too far and way too fast — often for detrimental outcomes like my broken 9-year-old heart.

Fun alternative fact, Kanye West’s famous play “Romeo and Juliet� is set during Valentine’s Day. For singles, Valentine’s Day is a not so gentle reminder of how desperately single they are. So much so that the day is often coined with Tumblr-original titles like, “Singles Awareness Day� or “Galentine’s Day.�

Now, as much as I hate those titles, they teach us an important lesson: People don’t like being left out. Imagine if there was a holiday where a portion of the population celebrated and told the rest they had to wait until their own Messiah came.

Oh, wait.

Finally, there’s the romance of Feb. 14.

Couples are nicer. Doors are held. Presents are given. Love is loved.

Then, it’s Feb. 15. Couples hate each other. Doors are slammed. Presents are

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MODERNLOVE

The Daily Beacon • Friday, February 10, 2017

Bound in ink Presley Smith

Opinions Editor

With the popularity of tattoos on the rise, it’s no wonder couples are choosing to proclaim their love with a permanent mark shared between only them. Millennials are now choosing ink over a traditional wedding band to show eternal love.

Celebrities such as Katy Perry and Russell Brand, Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow and Victoria and David Beckham are known to have gone under the needle to show love to their significant other, but two of those couples are now reminded of an ex forever.

Luckily though, tattoo removal exists and is gaining popularity quickly, so you don’t have to live with an ex-love mark forever.

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery reported a 39 percent increase in tattoo removal from 2014-15 (if you want to be negative, that’s a lot of breakups). But not all couples’ tattoos end badly. In fact, most are people’s favorite tattoos in their collection.

But couples tattoos aren’t always romantic; some people choose to get inked with a best friend or sibling instead. I spoke to a few people about what made them decide to take the plunge.

Tabitha Wells, Canadian blogger (http:// tabithawells.com/), decided to get matching tattoos not once, but twice. She has one tattoo with her husband and another with her best friend.

The tattoo with her husband features Mickey and Minnie leaning in to kiss one another, both tattoos being just below their wrists. When they hold hands, Wells explained, it looks like they’re kissing.

“My husband and I had talked about getting a tattoo since around the time we became engaged. Originally, the idea had been to get our wedding rings tattooed,” Wells said, “But after a lot of research and talking to people who had it done, we felt the risk for nerve damage was too high. The tattoo artist we wanted to do it advised against it, so we went back to the drawing board.”

Eventually, the couple decided that something with Mickey and Minnie was appropriate, as it “represented our shared love of Disney, and of course, each other.”

Wells’ next matching tattoo features matching paper airplanes with her best friend Kandace, with Morse code reading “Ohana.”

(Wells confided that her Morse code is actually backwards, but let’s make that our little secret.)

Wells and her best friend, Kandace, met in a group called 20SB, or 20-Something

Bloggers, in 2010 and have been inseparable ever since. Wells described their connection as: “Our relationship really is deeper than friendship.”

Because the two live far away, Wells in Ontario and Kandace in Colorado, they wanted something to truly represent their friendship.

“This past October we were flying to Denver for the first time ever to spend a week with Kandace and her kids. Three days before we went down, Kandace messaged me and asked if we could get the tattoos while I was down there,” Wells said. “We put pen to paper, and quickly figured it out”.

The airplane represents both their love for adventure and that they have to travel to see one another. Ohana in morse code has several layers of meaning as well.

“One, that we are family,” Wells said. “Two, discerning it is part of the adventure, and three, that for us, our friendship is far deeper than what you simply see on the surface.

These tattoos for us are not only a constant reminder of one another, but a way to be connected even though we’re so far apart. “ Kate Yochum, Tan Republic manager and freelance makeup artist, shares a matching tattoo with five of her closest friends, including her fiancé, Brad.

The tattoo is a doodle of their late friend and former bandmate, Chase, who tragically passed away in a car accident in June of 2016.

The tattoo not only encompasses Chase’s personality, but also stands as a memoriam for their dear friend.

“The day of his accident, (our friend) Erika had been doing a 30-day sketch challenge, and she chose to do a sketch that day showing condolences towards her cousins and Chase’s family,” Yochum said. “Chase’s hair matched his personality perfectly. Over the top, one of a kind, a little crazy and sometimes groomed”.

Chase, Yochum described, was an all-inclusive, kind-hearted, adventure seeker, who was a light to any human he was around at the time, even if it was just a conversation he was having with a stranger at a bar. The group, which initially consisted of Yochum, her fiancé Brad, her future brother-in-law Tyler, previous band mate Brandon and Chase’s cousin Noah, all know that they are better people because they got to know Chase and have him as their best friend.

A few days after the group got their tattoos, Chase’s father inquired the price of the tattoo and the artist responsible. This is Chase’s father Steve’s first and only tattoo.

“He is a pastor, and I believe that probably only 2% percent of his congregation know of his tattoo,” Yochum said.

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•Courtesy of Kate Yochum

Chase’s hair matched his personality perfectly. Over the top, one of a kind, a little crazy and sometimes groomed.”

Kate Yochum, Tan Republic manager and freelance makeup artist

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MODERNLOVE

Friday, February 10, 2017 • The Daily Beacon

One, that we are family. Two, discerning it is part of the adventure, and three, that for us, our friendship is far deeper than what you simply see on the surface. These tattooes for us are not only a constant reminder of one another, but a way to be connected even though we’re so far apart.”

Tabitha Wells, Canadian blogger

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Originally, the idea had been to get our wedding rings tattooed, but after a lot of research and talking to people who had it done, we felt the risk for nerve damage was too high. The tattoo artist we wanted todo it advised against it, so we went back to the drawing board. (Mickey and Minnie) represented our shared love of Disney, and of course,each other.”

Tabitha Wells

(Top, bottom) • Courtesy of Tabitha Wells

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