'Hooking Up': What Educators Need to Know

In 2001 the longtime student practice of "hooking up" gained national attention when the Institute for American Values released a report titled "Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Hoping for Mr. Right: College Women on Mating and Dating Today." Subsequent news-media coverage claimed that dating had declined in popularity among college students, in favor of casual sex. Despite most commentators' lamentations about the death of courtship and their concern over students' "new," morally questionable

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