{"id":57104,"date":"2017-01-19T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt-review_american_hookup_gives_college_sex_culture_a_failing_grade\/"},"modified":"2017-01-19T02:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T02:00:42","slug":"nyt-review_american_hookup_gives_college_sex_culture_a_failing_grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57104","title":{"rendered":"NYT&#8211;Review: \u201d\u02dcAmerican Hookup\u2019 Gives College Sex Culture a Failing Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College sex, it turns out, is not so very different from the hotel food in that old Jewish joke made famous by \u201cAnnie Hall\u201d\u009d: terrible, and in such small portions.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade opens \u201cAmerican Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus\u201d\u009d with a cascade of statistics that says as much. The average graduating senior has hooked up just eight times in four years, or once per semester. Almost one-third of college students never hook up at all. Those who do report mixed feelings about the experience, with one in three saying that intimate relationships in the past year have been \u201ctraumatic\u201d\u009d or \u201cvery difficult to handle.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition,\u201d\u009d Ms. Wade writes, \u201cthere is a persistent malaise: a deep, indefinable disappointment.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/18\/books\/review-american-hookup-college-sex-culture-lisa-wade.htmll\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College sex, it turns out, is not so very different from the hotel food in that old Jewish joke made famous by \u201cAnnie Hall\u201d\u009d: terrible, and in such small portions. Lisa Wade opens \u201cAmerican Hookup: The New Culture of Sex<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57104\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,111,168,104,125,177,129,112,34,126,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-men","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-women","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}