The end of sex : how hookup culture is leaving a generation unhappy, sexually unfulfilled, and confused about intimacy /

Hookup culture dominates the lives of college students today. Most students spend hours agonizing over their hopes for Friday night and, later, dissecting the evenings' successes or failures, often wishing that the social contract of the hookup would allow them to ask for more out of sexual int...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Freitas, Donna
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Basic Books, 2013.
Subjects:	College students > Sexual behavior. Youth > Sexual behavior. Sexual ethics. Dating (Social customs) Intimacy (Psychology) PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality. SELF-HELP / Sexual Instruction. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Author's Note; Introduction: The Second Shift of College; 1. Hookup World: The What, the Why, the How, the Classic vs. the Serial; 2. The All-Purpose Alcohol Solution; 3. Opting In to a Culture of Casual Sex; 4. Leraning to Play the Part (of Porn Star): The Sexualization of College Girls; 5. Why We Get Boys Wrong: The Emotional Glass Ceiling; 6. The Virginity Excuse and Other Modes for Opting Out of Hookup Culture (Sort of); 7. Opting Out: Rethinking Abstinence in the Age of Hookup Culture; 8. Opting Out of Hookup Culture via the Date; Conclusion: A New Kind of Sex Education: Good Sex 101 and Critical Living SkillsAcknowledgments; Appendix: On the Practical: Concrete Ways to Respond to Hookup Culture; Notes