Every weekend, it’s easy to see the prevalence of the hookup culture at Georgetown. The number of hookups—and subsequent hookup horror stories—even led to three Georgetown students creation of WorstHookups.com, where students can share all the details of the encounters they’d rather forget.

Despite what appears to be a culture that encourages students to hookup when drunk, a new national study claims that the majority of undergraduates try to avoid this ritual.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s recently published, 141-person survey presented undergraduate respondents with a hypothetical scenario about their friend “Jane.” In the situation, Jane is drinking at a bar with her friends, then begins to drink with a guy at the bar who eventually invites her back to his place.

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Remember that time you (a stupid act) in hopes that you could (a sexual activity) with (object of your sexual desire)? Well, now you can tell the internet about it!

Worsthookups.com, a site that chronicles “golden hookup experiences that are worth sharing with the world,” launched earlier this month under the watchful eyes of three current Georgetown students and one NYU student.

“After a traumatizing hookup experience, [we] looked for a place to post the story online and realized that no such website existed—and so began WorstHookups.com,” one founder, an MSB student in the Class of 2011 who requested anonymity, wrote in an e-mail. “WorstHookups.com provides people an opportunity to post their stories anonymously in a place where the people will appreciate them.”

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