is hooking up really that new?

My sister-in-law and friend both sent me a link to this article in the nytimes under some variation of, “isn’t this what your blog is all about?” and “blog fodder!”  In it, Opt-Ed columnist Charles Blow tells us something that we already know: hooking up is here to stay.

He after explaining to unknowing readers what hooking up entails, he writes, “when I first heard about hooking up years ago, I figured that it was a fad that would soon fizzle. I was wrong. It seems to be becoming the norm.”

None of this info is new for us, right?

But while perusing the wedding announcements in the nytimes, I found a really interesting quote from Jane Kallir, a woman who was remarrying her first husband.  Thinking back on how unprepared she was for marriage the first time around, she tells the reporter that “People didn’t date,” remembered Ms. Kallir, 54. “You hung out and then you slept together.”

Doesn’t that sound familiar to you?