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A frank and eye-opening examination of the hookup culture, seen through the personal experiences of high-school- and college-age women who must regularly make tough choices about dating, love, and sex
An eye-opening examination of the hookup culture, seen through the personal experiences of high school-and college-age women who confront the hard lessons of dating, love, and sex.
We're living in an increasingly sexualized world, and it's the young-particularly young women-who must deal with the consequences. Kids are having more sexual contact than ever, and at an earlier age. They call it "hooking up." But what is "hooking up"? According to Laura Sessions Stepp, a reporter at The Washington Post, hooking up eludes a neat definition. It can be anything from an innocent kiss to sexual.
In Unhooked, Stepp follows three groups of young women (one in high school, one each at Duke and George Washington universities). She sat with them in class, socialized with them, listened to them talk, and came away with some disturbing insights, including that hooking up carries with it no obligation on either side. Relationships and romance are seen as messy and time-consuming, and love is postponed-or worse, seen as impossible. Some young women can handle this, but many can't, and they're being battered-physically and emotionally-by the new dating landscape. The result is a generation of young people stymied by relationships and unsure where to turn for help.
"The need to be connected intimately to others is as central to our well-being as food and shelter," Stepp writes in Unhooked. "In my view, if we don't get it right, we're probably not going to get anything else in life right."
Unhooked
Foreword
Introduction
Section One
Hooking Up: What It Means (Jamie's Story)
Section Two
What It Looks Like, What It Feels Like
High School (Stories of Sienna, Anna and Mieka)
College (Nicole's Story)
Section Three
How We Got There
Feminism (Shaida's Story)
Parents and the Greenhouse Effect (Cleo's Story)
The College Environment (Victoria's Story)
Section Four
Hooking Up: Why It Matters (Alicia's Story)
A Letter to Mothers and Daughters
Afterword to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
"Riveting."
-Patricia Cornwell, New York Times bestselling author
"On target and thought provoking."
-Atlantic Monthly
"Educational-and almost always shocking...ought to come with a parental advisory."
-St. Louis Post Dispatch
"Stepp's work is remarkable."
-The Baltimore Sun
"Required reading for all young women-and their parents."
-Hilda Hutcherson, M.D., author of What Your Mother Never Told You About Sex
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