The result is a compelling narrative that is at times heartbreaking and at other times nothing short of hilarious. College students, op-ed columnists, and members of the general public have written essays alternately celebrating, condemning, and lamenting the rise of a supposedly carefree and attachment-light mode of sexual interaction that has come to be known in popular discourse as the “hookup culture.” Wade joins this ongoing discussion and brings to it a wealth of data, a keen eye and intellect, and an obvious respect and fondness for the students with whose stories she has been entrusted. In American Hookup, sociologist Lisa Wade explores a topic on which many opine but on which the research literature is less often invoked: the sex lives of undergraduate students.
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