"hooking up" used to be called "being a slut." We're returning to the point
where it is.
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com:80/s/ap/20070309/ap_en_ot/hooking_up_6
Book on Women's sex 'hookups' draws fire
NEW YORK - During a class discussion on adolescence, a high school teacher
recently asked her students whether they go on dates. We don't "date," the
12th-graders reported. We "hook up."
If you're in your 40s, "hooking up" might mean catching a friend downtown
for lunch. But to people in their teens or 20s, the phrase often means a
casual sexual encounter - anything from kissing onwards - with no strings
attached.
Now a new book on this not-so-new subject is drawing fire in some quarters
for its conclusion: That hookups can be damaging to young women, denying
their emotional needs, putting them at risk of depression and even sexually
transmitted disease, and making them ill-equipped for real relationships
later on.
