July 25, 2008

A Tough Time to Be a Girl: Gender Imbalance on Campuses

By RICHARD WHITMIRE

Casual sex. The mere words give parents the jitters, which is partly why the college pickup culture has received so much attention. News-media coverage ranges from checkout-aisle magazine stories serving up titillating details of alcohol-fueled encounters to full-scale reports like the delightfully titled "Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Hoping for Mr. Right," released by the Institute for American Values, a family-values think tank.

Last year, the writer Laura Sessions Stepp created a

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