{"id":44976,"date":"2012-03-26T12:45:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T17:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=44976"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:43:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:43:35","slug":"is-hook-up-culture-a-functional-training-ground-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/03\/26\/is-hook-up-culture-a-functional-training-ground-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Hook Up Culture a “Functional Training Ground” for Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>W.W. Norton released a couple two-minute interviews in which I talk about hook up culture, part of their collection of academics talking about their research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the first clip, I discuss the difference between hooking up and a hook up “culture.” \u00a0In the second, I respond to the concern that there is something “wrong” with casual sex on college campuses. \u00a0There is something wrong, I argue, but it’s not unique to casual sex. Instead, the problems students face on campus — heterosexism, gender inequality, and a relentless pressure to be “hot” — don’t go away with graduation.<\/p>\n

In that sense, for better or worse, college is a “functional training ground” for the friendships, marriages, workplace interactions, and other types relationships that students will encounter after college; social inequalities threaten the health of all of these relationships. \u00a0Instead of shaking our fingers at college students, then, we should recognize that the acute problems we see on campuses are symptoms of the ills that characterize our wider sexual culture as well.<\/p>\n

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I’m speaking about hook up culture at Harvard and Dartmouth this week. If you’re in the area, please come by and say “hello!”<\/p>\n