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

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.;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 intimacy. The pressure to participate comes from all directions?from peers, the media, and even parents. But how do these expectations affect students themselves? And why aren't parents and universities helping students make better-informed decisions about sex and relationships?