Are Hookups Healthy?
Laura Sessions Stepp's new book, Unhooked, purports that "relationships have been replaced by the casual sexual encounters known as hookups.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. Some girls can handle this; others… are exhausted physically, emotionally, and spiritually by it." According to Stepp, many girls choose hooking up over dating because they associate dating with codependence and want to remain self-focused. However, in being a player, Stepp believes that girls will become cynical, untrusting, and lack the skills to sustain a marriage.
Slate magazine's literary editor Meghan O'Rourke questions Stepp's opinion: "Unhooked [is supposed to be] a sweeping look at 'hookup' culture on college campuses and several high schools, but, in fact it is largely limited to a study at Duke University and George Washington University," says O'Rourke. "[The book] is heavy on anecdote and generalization and short on information. The truth is that… for the first time in ages, young women are actually concentrating, in some fashion, more on their work and on their female friendships than on love and sex, and many do feel empowered by this."
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