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. Read the rest of this entry ?
