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Monday Manners: A PSA about PDA

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at George Mason University chapter.
Don’t you hate it when you walk out of a class and you’re feeling a little stressed out and BAM! There is a couple eating each other’s faces? If we were boys we’d be high fiving or chest bumping one another,  but us ladies seem to get quite flustered around it. Guys are very vocal about their obsession with taking things to the next level, if you know what I mean, whereas girls are more repulsed by the thought of publicizing it…or so I thought.

Lately, I have gotten so frustrated with the endless amount of PDA that I have run into.  Just last week I was hosting a little bonfire off campus and there were three couples that were sitting on top of each other. Not only were they sitting on each other neglecting that there were individual chairs for each of them, they decided to only talk themselves and then, the deal-breaker for me, they could not take their hands off one another. It made all the single people feel so uncomfortable that we left them outside. The fact that all the singles had to
leave and go inside because we all felt that uncomfortable, not to mention disgusted, is disrespectful.  It was so impolite to all of my single guests, but also to me, since I had been hosting them the entire night.  I had invited them over to my home, started a bonfire (which is not an easy task my friends) and provided them with tons of food. Instead of thanking me for inviting them, they just were engulfed in each others arms and faces.

I don’t understand why certain couples feel the need to express their love, or their lust in public.  Maybe it’s a feeling of insecurity about their relationship that each of them have. They may feel like they don’t necessarily “look” like a couple is perceived to look, so they overcompensate.  These couple may just be simply unaware of their unlimited amount of affection for one another.  All I know is, it is rude and nasty to look at. Quite honestly, do you really want strangers watching you suck face? I don’t think so. No one wants to be remembered as the girl who was shoving her tongue down her supposed lover’s throat in the JC.

There is such thing as keeping it a mystery. Ladies, you don’t want every guy and girl that passes you to know the anatomy of your mouth and your lover’s. Don’t you want that representation around school as that girl? One day all of us gals will realize that we do want to settle down, some later than others, but it this goal will never be achieved if all of these men see you being felt up and around at some party or on campus. Yes, we all make mistakes, but let’s limit this PDA nonsense once and for all.

Sabel is a senior at George Mason University majoring in History and Economics. Although she'd rather stay a student forever, she is excited to see what the future brings her in the fashion industry. Besides her endeavors at HerCampus, Sabel is a Style Guru for CollegeFashionista.com writing the Style Advice of the Week column for Mason. Adding to her busy schedule are her duties in her sorority, volunteering for Operation Smile, contributing to the social media world, feeding her soda addiction, shopping at J.Crew and coloring everything around her pink. And yes, the last three are major priorities in her book.