The Slut Walk: How Dress is Linked to the Hookup Culture

It is discussed everywhere from blogs to The New York Times. In interviews, professors and students at Harvard discussed their views on hookup culture and its effect on campus culture. She says that hooking up itself is not new to colleges or humans, but hookup culture is.

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How powerfully students have accepted that as a potential reality, a goal for themselves. We have emotions at breakfast! We have emotions when we get in the shower and it feels nice! So it was impressive to me how powerful this idea had become. And then the extent to which students blamed themselves for having feeling — any kind of feeling, positive and negative. It was really disconcerting; it was really disturbing. And then the way in which that allowed them to mistreat each other.

Suddenly, this freedom is actually really constrained. What do you think incited these trends? Is the concept of consent changing, or just being newly ignored? I think that the newer issue is that — in the 80s and 90s, if somebody wanted to have sex, they often pretended like they wanted to have a relationship. People lie in every generation.