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Please Stop Hooking Up With My [Future] Husband

Susan Rosenzweig | Posted 04.05.2013 | Women
Susan Rosenzweig

"What if sleeping with some guy is squashing his motivation to go out and find the true love of his life because his immediate sexual needs are being met? Meanwhile, some other girl is doing the same with the guy you're supposed to be with."

The Way We Desire Now

Charles Stephens | Posted 05.13.2013 | Gay Voices
Charles Stephens

Pictures are flashed, on profiles, when I'm out with friends, to show the sexy guy that's pursuing them. It's fun, initially. I laugh and participate in it too, while loathing my complicity in something I know we are all harmed by and baffled at our participation in a system that does not serve us.

The Top 10 Rules Of Hooking Up

Terrence Chappell | Posted 04.29.2013 | Gay Voices
Terrence Chappell

Hooking up is supposed to be a fun, safe way of exploring your sexuality, no matter whom or what you're into at the moment. But as with any exploration, there is a set of basic rules that can keep you safe and off the radar of the town's gossip queen, with your reputation in intact.

Can We Create a Safer Party Culture for All?

Danielle Paradis | Posted 03.30.2013 | College
Danielle Paradis

Young men and women are beginning to learn that "yes means yes," but what is still missing from the education young people need to avoid rape is the necessity of taking agency for ourselves.

The Worst Pick Up Lines. Ever.

The Huffington Post | Ann Brenoff | Posted 11.29.2012 | Fifty

If you thought being middle aged meant the days of a stranger saddling up to you at the bar and delivering one of those awkward pick up lines were lon...

10 Ways To Know If You Should Break Up Before College

The Huffington Post | Hannah Orenstein | Posted 11.16.2012 | Teen

Dating in high school can turn your world upside down: One minute, you're nervously decoding every ounce of meaning from your crush's texts; the next,...

Down With "The Talk"!: "Where Did I Come From?" Is Not a Question About Sex (Part 3 of 4)

Deborah M. Roffman | Posted 12.03.2012 | Books
Deborah M. Roffman

What explains these teenagers' inability to think about sexuality at the same level of cognitive sophistication they so capably bring to practically every other subject matter?

How To Make Hookups More Fun

Salon | Posted 09.05.2012 | Women

As a scientist who studies sex, and as a sex educator (I teach college-level human sexuality classes at Indiana University and have written the Kinsey...

The Boyfriend Cover Letter: Skills Include Tolerance For Shopping And Ability To 'Really Listen'

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 08.31.2012 | College

If you say you're looking for a boyfriend on Facebook, you might expect a few comical replies. But would you ever expect to find a cover letter slippe...

STUDY: College Students Don't Respect Peers That 'Hook-Up Too Much'

Posted 08.19.2012 | College

Are college students turning into Victorian spinsters? Perhaps they always were. A news study by the American Sociological Association claims st...

Should I Sleep With Him?: A Flow Chart

Courtney Garcia | Posted 10.16.2012 | Comedy
Courtney Garcia

Sometimes a spontaneous move in the right moment sparks something great; thus, every offer should not be rejected. So, instead of a rule, I've created a flow chart to help me decide if I will sleep with someone I meet at a party.

Every Topic That's Ever Been Written About Your 20s in Consolidated List Form

Teresa Lee | Posted 09.29.2012 | College
Teresa Lee

None of the emotions or things we're going through are unique. Surprise! You're not special! You are not original and you are a cliché. Lovely.

The Hook-up Generation

Patricia Vanderbilt | Posted 04.28.2012 | College
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 | College

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 | Style
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 | Parents
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 | Women

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 | Style
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 | Green
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 | Healthy Living
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 | Healthy Living
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 | Healthy Living

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 | Healthy Living

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...