Tuesday, May 24, 2011
LETTERS - Trends in Dating and 'Hooking Up' - Letter - NYTimes.com
LETTERS - Trends in Dating and 'Hooking Up' - Letter - NYTimes.com
These are the letter that came in to editor after Charles Blow wrote his article.
Op-Ed Columnist - The Demise of Dating - NYTimes.com
Charles M. Blow interviews Kathleen Bogle, a professor at La Salle University in Philadelphia who has studied hooking up among college students and is the author of the 2008 book, “Hooking Up: Sex, Dating and Relationships on Campus.”
The book, Hooking Up, came out in 2008 and this article came out right after the book.
"Child Trends, a Washington research group, there are now more high school seniors saying that they never date than seniors who say that they date frequently. Apparently, it’s all about the hookup." from NYTimes
Journal of Adolescent Research and the CDC would be interesting places to look for information about this topic.
"So why is there an increase in hooking up? According to Professor Bogle, it’s: the collapse of advanced planning, lopsided gender ratios on campus, delaying marriage, relaxing values and sheer momentum.
It used to be that “you were trained your whole life to date,” said Ms. Bogle. “Now we’ve lost that ability — the ability to just ask someone out and get to know them.” from NYT
Thinking about Hooking Up
I just finished the wonderful book by Kathleen A. Bogle. Hooking Up.
It is very readable.
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