SOCL 2001 Chapter : Hooking Up
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Dating replaced by hooking up as the main campus script. No: 39. 5% intercourse, 32. 1% kiss/touch, 15. 1% hand to genital, 11. 7% oral sex. Men see a woman as a less than dateable type of girl if they hookup on the first encounter. Are men exaggerating experiences: men: 6. 1 median lifetime sexual partners; women 3. 6 (from national. Health statistics report 2011: more men also say they hookup in college. Date much rarer (not in an exclusive relationship) What conditions led to hookup system: large number of people in college, high % of women, postponement of marriage (men 27+ and women 25+, women movement (embracing sexuality/ not as much of a stigma attached, contraception. Elizabeth armstrong: women avoid relationship to keep time with friends or studying. Men continue to hold most of the power as they did in the dating era : men prefer "hooking-up , women prefer dating .
