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"How We Mate," by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead | City Journal Summer 1999

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I'd not have known who the "Masters of the Universe" were if I had not read Tom Wolfe's essay "Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American's World," published in 2000 in his book Hooking Up.

How We Mate
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