Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus

By Kathleen A. Bogle

    Hooking Up is an intimate look at how and why college students get together, what hooking up means to them, and why it has replaced dating on college campuses. While a hook up might mean anything from kissing to oral sex to going all the way, the lack of commitment is paramount.

      In surprisingly frank interviews, students reveal the circumstances that have led to the rise of the booty call and the death of dinner-and-a-movie. Whether it is an expression of post-feminist independence or a form of youthful rebellion, hooking up has become the only game in town on many campuses.

      In Hooking Up, Kathleen A. Bogle, assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at LaSalle University in Philadelphia, argues that college life itself promotes casual relationships among students on campus. The book sheds light on everything from the differences in what young men and women want from a hook up to why freshman girls are more likely to hook up than their upper-class sisters, and the effects this period has on the sexual and romantic relationships of both men and women after college.

      Breaking through many misconceptions about casual sex on college campuses, Hooking Up is the first book to understand the new sexual culture on its own terms.

 

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