The Shift from Dating to Hooking Up: What Scholars Have Missed
by Kathleen Bogle
This article talks about the hook up standard on college campuses (very similar to the article we read in class). It suggests that the "traditional date" is becoming non-existent in the world of interaction between male and female. According to the article the terms "dating" and "date" are being replaced by "hooking up" amongst heterosexual couples. Bogen goes on to say that these "hook up" encounters between college men and women are often influenced by alcohol, and hooking up is becoming the pre-dating standard. She says that most college students hook up first with no strings attached, and sometimes it is followed by dating if things get more serious. Throughout her article, she writes about the differences between the date-script and the hook up-script, and she goes onto say that most people that participate in this "hook-up" method gossip about the promiscuous sexual actions of others, as to shine a light on the explicit behavior of others and remove some of the guilt from themselves.
-A. Merchant
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