Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus

Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus

by Kathleen A. Bogle
ISBN-10:
0814799698
ISBN-13:
9780814799697
Pub. Date:
01/01/2008
Publisher:
New York University Press
ISBN-10:
0814799698
ISBN-13:
9780814799697
Pub. Date:
01/01/2008
Publisher:
New York University Press
Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus

Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus

by Kathleen A. Bogle
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Overview

A closer look into the new sexual culture on college campuses

It happens every weekend: In a haze of hormones and alcohol, groups of male and female college students meet at a frat party, a bar, or hanging out in a dorm room, and then hook up for an evening of sex first, questions later. As casually as the sexual encounter begins, so it often ends with no strings attached; after all, it was “just a hook up.” While a hook up might mean anything from kissing to oral sex to going all the way, the lack of commitment is paramount.

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. 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 postfeminist 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 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 freshmen 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. Importantly, she shows us that the standards for young men and women are not as different as they used to be, as women talk about “friends with benefits” and “one and done” hook ups.

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, with vivid real-life stories of young men and women as they navigate the newest sexual revolution.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814799697
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 01/01/2008
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 225
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Kathleen A. Bogle is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at La Salle University in Philadelphia. She is the author of Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     1
From Dating to Hooking Up     11
The Hookup     24
The Hookup Scene     50
The Campus as a Sexual Arena     72
Men, Women, and the Sexual Double Standard     96
Life after College: A Return to Dating     128
Hooking Up and Dating: A Comparison     158
Methodological Appendix     187
Notes     191
Bibliography     211
Index     221
About the Author     225
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