OBC has been saying “You don’t have to promise marriage just to get a date” for years, shouting it from the rooftops, car windows, and public bathroom toilets in Barstow, CA (sidenote: don’t ever go to Barstow, California). And yet, for some reason, everyone construed it as us preaching dirty, offensive filth that would derail humanity and send us into a population-decimating spiral that ends with us being taken over by starfish or something.

Fast-forward to this week, and a University of Iowa professor Anthony Paik is backing us up, saying that people who engage in ‘hookup culture’ are still fully capable of going on to have meaningful, fulfilling relationships… when they’re ready. He analyzed 462 adults’ relationship studies from across the Chicago and discovered that while those who hold off on sex have happy, successful relationships, so do those who “spot each other across the room, become sexually involved and then build a relationship.”

The study seems to infer that it wasn’t the sexual behavior of the participants that dictated their ability to have lasting relationships, but instead their readiness to be in a long-term commitment. Therefore, those who were participating in casual dating, hookups, and booty calls were more likely to be able to gauge whether or not they were ready and willing to commit to one person.

Plus, there was no sign that relationships couldn’t be formed from casual hooking up and dating. It makes sense, because sexual chemistry is much harder to force than personality chemistry. And when it comes to long term relationships, an unsatisfactory sex life is one of the main reasons people stray. So why is it that sexual compatibility is so far down on the bottom of the list, behind political views, favorite color and hobbies? Sure you might like rock climbing together, but if you don’t wanna bone down at the top of the cliff, why even climb it?

That didn’t make any sense. I think it’s quitting time and it’s only 10 am.