The End of Sex
How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2013
Summary
Hookup culture dominates the lives of college students today. Most students spend hours agonizing over their hopes for Friday night and, later, dissecting the evenings’successes or failures, often wishing that the social contract of the hookup would allow them to ask for more out of sexual intimacy. The pressure to participate comes from all directions,from peers, the media, and even parents. But how do these expectations affect students themselves? And why aren’t parents and universities hel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780465002153 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0465002153 |
| Author: | Donna Freitas |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Imprint: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2013 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 148mm x 22mm |
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Lauren Sandler, author of “Righteous” and “One and Only” “You may think you know about hookup culture, but unless you have read Freitas’s clear, compassionate, and complete study, you have no idea. Instead of gleaning the state of intimacy of an entire generation from a few subjects, Freitas surveys and interviews thousands of students, and the vast scope of the pervasive hookup culture she discovers is stunning. I recommend this book to men and women alike, students and professors, parents and kids–anyone with a personal or social interest in physical intimacy, emotional intimacy, and the widening chasm in between. Whether you spar with Freitas’s conclusions, or feel liberated by them, “The End of Sex” is simply indispensable.”
About The Author
Donna Freitas
Donna Freitas is a professor at Boston University. Her writing has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The Boston Globe, Newsweek, Salon, and The Wall Street Journal. She contributes regularly to a oeOn Faith, a an online panel co-sponsored by Newsweek and The Washington Post, and she is an occasional commentator for NPRa ™s All Thinga ™s Considered. Growing up, Donna could often be found covered in flour in the wee hours of the morning making pasta from scratch with her Italian mother and grandmother, listening to them pray to one saint or another. She lives in New York
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