Unhooked
Last week there was an article in the Globe about the book Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both, which examines "hookup culture" among college-aged women.
A friend asked me what I thought of it and I said that it sounded like the latest "our teenagers are making bad choices!" hullaballoo and that my guess is that there's much more variety among people's experiences than books like this make out.
Today there's an article in Slate that gets at some of the issues I had with the Globe article (and what I can tell from these pieces about the book).
I'd be interested to hear from folks currently in that demographic, or working with same, about how prevalent this "culture" really is and what opinions you have of the phenomenon.
A friend asked me what I thought of it and I said that it sounded like the latest "our teenagers are making bad choices!" hullaballoo and that my guess is that there's much more variety among people's experiences than books like this make out.
Today there's an article in Slate that gets at some of the issues I had with the Globe article (and what I can tell from these pieces about the book).
I'd be interested to hear from folks currently in that demographic, or working with same, about how prevalent this "culture" really is and what opinions you have of the phenomenon.