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"   Going to college and engaging in some serious sexual exploration seem to go hand in hand for many of us (uh, yup). It&amp;#039;s not too hard to understand why: You&amp;#039;re living away from your parents for (probably) the first time ever, there&amp;#039;s a trove of cute guys your age (and older), and the Jungle Juice is a-flowing over at AEPi. If that&amp;#039;s not a recipe for hooking up, well, then I don&amp;#039;t know what is. But who tends to hook up more and why is the subject of two new studies hoping to predict young women&amp;#039;s sexual behavior. One study, by The Miriam Hospital&amp;#039;s Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, surveyed nearly 500 female college freshman and followed up with them after eight months. The other, published this month in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, focused on both men and women over the course of a year.  Here&amp;#039;s what researchers discovered: * If you hooked up a lot before college, you&amp;#039;ll hook up a lot in college. In the Miriam Hospital study, the highest predictor of so-called &amp;quot;promiscuous behavior&amp;quot; was having a history of pre-college hookups. Freshman year hook-up rate could also influence more hookups over the course of college. However, anyone who&amp;#039;s been to college knows there are a ton of exceptions to this rule: Like the chick who enters the dorms a virgin and then totally goes wild and sleeps with as many dudes as she can. Happens every day, people. * If you smoke pot and/or drink alcohol, you&amp;#039;re more likely to hook up.  No surprises here: Both studies found that since marijuana and booze impair judgment, ladies are more likely to head home with a guy after puffing or imbibing. A good reminder to watch your intake if you&amp;#039;re hoping to go home solo\u2014dry-humping a cute freshman always seems like a great idea after a couple warm Jose Cuervo shots. (Mmm\u2026goes down like fire.) * If you had/have a tumultuous family life, this won&amp;#039;t affect how much you hook up.  The study published in Archives focused on how family stability might affect someone&amp;#039;s inclinations for hooking up and found that, &amp;quot;neither family structure nor number of structure transitions were related to the number of hookup partners in the past 12 months.&amp;quot; So, having divorced parents, a single parent, &amp;quot;daddy issues,&amp;quot; or the like aren&amp;#039;t really factors when it comes to hooking up, it seems. * If you&amp;#039;re in a serious relationship, you&amp;#039;re less likely to get busy with other people.  This is kind of a duh point, but having a BF keeps you from randomly hooking up with other dudes, for the most part. Though, we know more than a few gals who locked lips with guys who weren&amp;#039;t their long-distance, high school boyfriends that first year of college.  On the heels of these studies, we&amp;#039;d like to invite the medical and academic communities to conduct in-depth studies into college males&amp;#039; sexual behavior. Because why should our hookups be the only ones put under the microscope?  But we gotta ask you: From your experience, what makes women more likely to hook up that first year of college?  Want more from Natasha? Follow her on Twitter or find her on Facebook. Photo: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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