Unhooked (edit title/settings)

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• “"Your mind and heart don't split down the middle because your physiology connects the two."”

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• “"Sex in fact is a Rorschach test for how we treat all people -- casually or with care. Skin to skin, we are at our most vulnerable, and so is our partner. We learn to trust or distrust, to give and receive in the most basic way possible, and we take those lessons with us into the wider world."”

  Laura Stepp

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• Hooking up leaves them wholly unprepared for both the steadfastness and the flexibility a loving relationship requires.

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• But the traits that characterize good marriages are firmly established and include trust, respect, admiration, honesty, selflessness, communication, caring and, perhaps more than anything else, commitment. Hookups are about anything but these qualities. It’s as if young women are practicing sprints while planning to run a marathon.

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• In order to accomplish the goals that their parents—and by this time in their lives, they—want, they believe they can’t afford to invest time, energy and emotion in a deep relationship. Hooking up appears to be a practical alternative.

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• Relationships have been replaced by the casual sexual encounters known as hookups. Love, while desired by some, is being put on hold or seen as impossible; sex is becoming the primary currency of social interaction.

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• I hope to encourage girls to think hard about whether they’re “getting it right,” whether their sexual and romantic experiences are contributing to—or destroying—their sense of self-worth and strength.

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• “The girls made all the effort. The guys didn’t have to do anything.”

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• what young women want most is control over the guys they’ve set out to conquer.

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• this is not a hookup culture so much as an unhooked culture. It is a way of thinking about relationships, period.

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• Young people have virtually abandoned dating and replaced it with group get-togethers and sexual behaviors that are detached from love or commitment—and sometimes even from liking.

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• As hard as they tried to run away from love, they ended up falling in love, usually only briefly, and were reluctant to call it anything but “having feelings for.”

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• Duke
• GW university

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Laura Sessions Stepp (Author)

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• Dewey: 306.73084220973

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• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › Sexuality › Human
• Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
• Books › Parenting & Families › Parenting › Teenagers
• Books › Teens › Health, Mind & Body › Sexuality
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › Adolescent Psychology
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Relationships › Interpersonal Relations
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Sex
• Books › Parenting & Families › Family Health