Hooking Up

The Hook-up Generation

Patricia Vanderbilt | Posted 04.28.2012

Patricia Vanderbilt

Hook-up culture creates a strange binary: on the one hand, students are having casual sex. On the other hand, students are having no sex at all. With the exception of an occasional long-term relationship, there is virtually nothing in-between.

The 10 Best Colleges For Hooking Up

| Alejandra Saragoza | Posted 02.22.2012

The college experience often entails drinking, partying and intimate interactions. And what used to be seen as a mate-seeking ritual has shifted to ho...

A Guide to Halloween Hook-ups

Marni Kinrys | Posted 12.24.2011

Marni Kinrys

Here are my Top Three tips to help you to use the party atmosphere to get the girl you want, and keep her by your side throughout 'cuffing season.'

Why Aren't Girls Dating?

Fran Lasker | Posted 12.24.2011

Fran Lasker

I am beyond thrilled to acknowledge that girls today are being brought up in a generation that promotes empowerment and equality. Yet many young girls emulate women who are flexing their muscles on a stripper pole, and not in the boardroom.

Is It Better That No One Can Define 'Hooking Up'?

Posted 10.12.2011

How do you define "hooking up?" A recent study of how social networks lead college students to define, perceive, and participate in “hooking up...

Looking Through the Bushes: The Disappearance of Pubic Hair

Roger Friedland | Posted 08.13.2011

Roger Friedland

In the avant-garde literature of the 1960s, female pubic hair was everywhere. Pubic hair marked the site we all wanted to see, to touch, to enter. It marked pleasures yet to come. Not today: Pubic hair has gone missing.

The Real Jersey Girl: Snooki vs. Margo

David Helvarg | Posted 05.25.2011

David Helvarg

While I haven't met Snooki, I do know a real housewife of New Jersey, 43-year old Medford Lakes mother of two, Margo Pellegrino. She's currently paddling an outrigger canoe down the Pacific Coast from Seattle to San Diego.

R. U. BOT OR NOT?

Carine Fabius | Posted 11.17.2011

Carine Fabius

Don't you? Look over here at your local bank. If it's anything like mine, the place is swarming with robots.

Another Way To Make Love

Marnia Robinson | Posted 11.17.2011

Marnia Robinson

There's nothing new about hooking up. As a sexual-revolutionary, I practically lived on the Relationship Roller Coaster. Little did I know that biology was arranging every ride.

20-Somethings, Like College Students, Hook Up Rather Than Date

npr.org | Brenda Wilson | Posted 11.17.2011

The hookup -- that meeting and mating ritual that started among high school and college students -- is becoming a trend among young people who have en...

Will The Next Generation Get Married?

The Stimulist | The Stimulust | Posted 11.17.2011

If you can put aside the inherent creepiness of hearing a man well past his teenage years talking about teenagers having sex, check out this Philip We...