Ah, summer loving. It may happen so fast, but you, my friend, can still have yourself a blast. Whether it is that somewhat-cute girl from high school that managed to became somewhat hot in the past year, or the quirky bus boy from work who you could describe as so much more attractive to your friends from school, anyone could become the target of your summer-break affections. Here are just a few reasons for you to find someone to heat up those summer nights:

Create a relationship with a timeline

Summer relationships are like borrowing books from the library: full benefits, for a designated amount of time, of an actual purchase without any investment. And just like with the library loan system, if that exchange passes its due date, both parties will only suffer. Summer flings are by definition transitory, which allows you to read that book, so to speak, and then go your separate ways. 

Regale your friends with tales of your romance

Don’t become the uninteresting roommate whose big summer plans merely included a trip to Milwaukee to stay on your aunt’s beet farm. Make your school friends absolutely green with envy as you spin tales of your fantastical whirlwind summer affair, adding all the embellishments that you see fit. 

Make your go-to hookup envious 

If you still have an old reliable “It’s Complicated” on the backburner at school, make him or her wild with jealousy with each mupload you post of you and your new summer beau on Facebook. That go-to hookup will want you all the more when you arrive back at school in September, knowing now what a hot commodity you have proven yourself to be.  

Related: Pros and Cons: Summertime Sex

Breaks up the summer job monotony 

Get up, go to work, collapse into an exhausted heap, repeat. Nothing adds a little excitement to the inevitable tedium of summer like a little summer lovin’. Add some casual flirtation/sexual interaction to your daily routine and you’ll be whistling while you work in no time. 

Creates an opportunity for unattached, unemotional, sexual interaction

Need I say more? Go out there and get ‘em, you little horn dogs!