just a little fun

Last night’s episode of “House” went into the story line of co-workers Dr. Cameron (female) and Dr. Chase (male) pursuing a purely sexual relationship. Their sexual relationship began one night while both were high on drugs but now continues as a very casual relationship. They have sex on a patient’s bed and continue to flirt throughout the day at work.

But at the very end of the episode, Chase declares that he wants more than what they currently have. It is a stereotypical role reversal because instead of the woman wanting more than just sex, it is the man who wants emotions involved in the relationship.

Initally, I thought that it was a great example of the women that Stepp is writing about in her book.

unhooked

One of the reasons that I decided to write this blog on hooking up was an article in the New York Times on Laura Sessions Stepp’s new book “Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both.” Stepp followed nine high school and college women ages 15-21 and decided that hooking up has replaced dating across the country. For a college student, I can’t help but think, duh. However, I am not alone in my opinion. Other reviews of the book have called it a” 50s style handbook on appropriate feminity” and that it “makes sex into a bigger, scarier and more dangerous thing than it already it.” Stepp, a 55 year old writer for the Washington Post, has claimed that most women aren’t able to separate their physical and emotional connections to sex, leading to emotional damage after the fact. I can accept that fact and know that girls can drunkenly hook up on a Saturday night and by Thursday start freaking out because they want the boy to call and they know he won’t.