American Hookup
by Lisa Wade
ONE
18. Owen's expectations vs reality
26. Freshmen most hookups, it is a cloud/culture, can't opt-out
pregame-grinding-hookup-do something-meaninglessness (1. drunk 2. cap hookups 3. emotional distance)
sense that you are SUPPOSED to hook-up is new, not the act
TWO
56. Pressure to have fun. Sex->fun->freedom->sex->...
60. Courtship, dating, going steady, calling [power shift]
63. Shifting culture --> sex more permissive while weddings decrease
69. Masculinity encouraged for boys, girls, men, and women!
70. Some prefer going steady and others promiscuity
THREE
83. Greek life, rebellions about school quality, modern frats culture
85. Party locations - bars & frat parties
89. Caving to urges, sex culture again...
FOUR
99. "opting out", desirability, financial aid, LGBTQ
103. Outsider within culture, roommate sex, isolation
112. Sexual assault victims, abstinance
FIVE
121 Gays, emerging adulthood, disease, losing verginity, routine
121 UECKER 1/2 look commitment 1/2 experimenting
124 Dabbling in hookup culture
127. "enthusiasts" - love to engage / enthusiastic
133. "strivers" - want to but can't (ex. trans and disabled)
SIX
142. Emotionless, lust, not making love, hot start --> cold end
Show disinterest after, women expected to be more emotional
148. Indifference afterwards - not friends with benefits
Transition to relationship
152. Tiq & Farah - acting like disinterested
157. Cruelty/hatred, pressure to comply with no condom for ex.
SEVEN
160. Women less orgasms - celeste 12 men
165. Felatio more frequent than cunnilingus (taboo/dirty)
170. Men-oriented/not reciprocal unless in relationship (hookup culture)
177. Shit-talking eachother (men) and degrading women
179. Despite inequality 84% women enjoy the hookup
EIGHT
184. Girls kissing girls = heterosexual?
191. Feels good to be wanted, female body-expectations
194. Comparing women 201 both judged by men (m/f)
199. Clothing, party power-dynamics, self-objectification
NINE
204. Natalie & the blow
206. Assault & 2 types of rape - bad guys / situational
210. Party behavior (color clothes lol)
213. Intoxication, frat email
215. Repeat offenders
218. Intervention bystanders, status (Cosby/Arnold)
222. Victim blaming, Evelyn's sacrifice
223. Cosby ending, hookup culture rape
TEN
228. Participants, dabblers, abstainers, and moving on
232. Friendships, life afterwards
240. Transition to dating after college, not knowing how to date, meeting good people
CONCLUSION
244. Good, stereotypes, women's worth, masculinized
248. Love is diverse, changing the future toward more love