Reflection Wall: How bad are hookups?

In the essay "Hookups Starve the Soul" , by Laura Vanderkam, the author talks about how "hookups" can affect the life of young people who are in college or in high school. She says that the definition of a hookup is "when a guy and a girl get together for physical encounter and don't expect anything else". She shows many reasons of why people chooses to hookup instead of having a serious relationship. In addition, she talks about how hormones cause the need or desire to hook up and how people don't have time to be in a relationship. The author is against the hookups because it is meaningful. "Hookups do satisfy biology, but the emotional detachment doesn't satisfy the soul. And that's the real problem-not the promiscuity, but the lack of meaning." But, are really hookups that bad? Adolescent have hormones which, at that age, are growing a lot. Therefore, people seek hookups, because it satisfies that incontrollable desire of physical encounter. Also, not everybody is against of having a hookup occasionally because they know what it means and how it works. I say that the problem is when two people hookups and one of them isn't on the same page as the other. In other words, when one of them thinks is something romantic and serious while for the other one is something meaningful. This is when things get rough. In this cases people gets hurt and with their feelings broken. And the worst part is that the other person who wasn't hurt, doesn't empathize with the other one because for that person, the hookup is something ordinary. Another thing about hookups is that it can lead to serious relationships. Sometimes, people tend to like someone but, because of not knowing if the other person wants a relationship, he or she takes the decision to just become a hookup partner. Then, unconsciously, because of hooking up consecutive times, a chemistry is created between those two person which makes them look and care always for each other. Hookups can lead to various paths. The path where I would say it isn't a good path is the "love doesn't exist path”. This path means that the person thinks that hooking up is the only way to calm the hormones and to be happy. I think that, in most cases, hooking up is just what comes before anything serious and meaningful. It’s an experience that college students and other young people should have at least once if they have the need. In conclusion, I don't think that hookups starve the soul if you really understand for what it is. I'm in favor of the hookups if both person are conscious of the meaningfulness of a hookup. Also, I recognize the danger of a hookup, but I do understand that young men and young women needs it to calm down that hormones that drives them crazy in that age.