Does the Hookup Culture Really Not Even Exist?  What Women
Really Think Aug. 15 2013 5:07 PM  Does the Hookup Culture
Really Not Even Exist?  Hooking up Maybe hooking up, maybe not.
Photo by Stockbyte/Thinkstock  We’ve heard that the hookup
culture is destroying us. We’ve heard that it’s saving us. We’ve
heard that it’s racist. We’ve agonized over which one of these
is true. Then this week we heard that it doesn’t even exist. A
new paper publicized by the American Sociological Association
(but not officially published yet) found “no evidence of
substantial changes in sexual behavior that would support the
proposition that there is a new or pervasive ‘hookup culture’
among contemporary college students.” That’s how most media
outlets, including Slate, reported it. But that’s not exactly
what the paper found. Its author, Martin Monto, e-mailed me to
say that he meant the paper only to be a “clarification” of
media hype about the hook-up culture. The vision most people of
parental age have when they hear “hooku