The Demise Of Dating
"Hooking-Up" Becoming More Common Than Traditional Dating, But What Does That Mean?
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Still, whatever happened to good old fashioned dating?
Kathleen Bogle, author of Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus, and assistant professor of sociology at La Salle University visited The Early Show to discuss the good and the bad of the rise of the "hookup culture."
"Define hooking up. What does that mean exactly?" co-anchor Julie Chen asked.
"Well, that's one of the tricky things about this whole thing. It can mean kissing or it can mean sleeping with someone or it can mean anything in between," Bogle said. "So it's one of the most vague terms that high school and college students use."
"I always thought it meant definitely having sex, you're telling me it doesn't mean that," Chen said.
"No, that's what a lot of adults think and sometimes college students themselves are confused," Bogle said "But when you actually look at the research, a lot of times it means far less than sex, sometimes just kissing."
"Why is this happening that they're not dating, just kind of maybe randomly kissing someone and not leading to any dates?" Chen asked.
"So many things happened and kind of converged at one time that you have, you have, people getting married much later, that's a big issue," Bogle said. "People used to use their high school and college years to figure out who they were going to end up with and almost do some sort of spouse shopping. Now people aren't getting married until later and later so it makes high school and college this time where relationships can be really, really casual."
"But then what happens after college?" Chen asked. "I mean, if they are used to not dating and just participating in this hook up culture, what does it lead to?"
"What's amazing is I interviewed people that were in the young alumni category age 23 to 30 and people that hooked up all through high school and college went back to more traditional dating after," Bogle said. "It was amazing because they said, 'Yeah, I hooked up in college, I partied, I drank,' and then they would switch to really traditional dating."
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Big freakin'' deal. Let me get the fainting couch!
Real progressives would be pro-relationships.
Our culture has thumbed its nose at everything it means to be a decent, productive, responsible adult.
We are rapidly circling hte drain at this point. Unless these dumb kids somehow learn life lessons in a real hurry, our nation will become a morass of total decadence and pathetic mediocrity.
Our culture has thumbed its nose at everything it means to be a decent, productive, responsible adult.
We are rapidly circling hte drain at this point. Unless these dumb kids somehow learn life lessons in a real hurry, our nation will become a morass of total decadence and pathetic mediocrity.
Posted by clathrate at 06:17 PM : Dec 15, 2008
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It''s cheaper to make our society like that. Not to mention offshoring any form of work that people could be proud doing.
Overgrown kids...
Posted by clathrate at 06:17 PM : Dec 15, 2008
" will become a morass of total decadence and pathetic mediocrity."
Clath go get a cup of coffee as that decadence and mediocrity thingie is pretty much here.
Clathrate? Just curious-you an organic chemist or do you write with a lisp.
I remember when .....
~SOCRATES (469%u2013399 B.C.)attributed to Socrates by Plato--
%u201CBefore you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.%u201D
from these BRATS!!!
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by rustycarpet
December 17, 2008 6:51 PM EST
- But who cares how they are living their life. You all should focus on your own lives and trying to better this world actively rather than just complaining all the time
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