New book draws fire for claiming casual sex encounters damage women
In the new book "Unhooked," Laura Sessions Stepp, a journalist with the Washington Post, frets that casual sexual hookups do damage to young women's bodies and psyches.
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What do YOU think? As youth workers or community health workers what are your opinions and experiences?
As a young person - what do you think? Is this just old timers upset with langhuage or is ther something in it? What about for same sex attracted people??????
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As it discusses in the article, hooking up or what we call a "one nighter" is more practical for many busy young women juggling work, study, parenting etc. As long as we’re consenting and doing it safe then why not, lots of good (safe) sex is not a bad thing right? Why is this always an issue for women anyway, men have slept around for centauries…
ReplyDeleteAs it discusses in the article, hooking up or what we call a "one nighter" is more practical for many busy young women juggling work, study, parenting etc. As long as we’re consenting and doing it safe then why not, lots of good (safe) sex is not a bad thing right? Why is this always an issue for women anyway, men have slept around for centauries…
ReplyDeleteIt's difficult to judge only on the basis of someone else's interpretation of the book, but it does seem to me to draw too much on the gender stereotype that says "men want sex, women need emotion". The young people quoted say that hooking up isn't having an impact on their desire or capacity to engage in meaningful relationship building, so why should someone else tell them what their experience "should" be? I was going to make another comment about non-normative relationships and differently attracted/gendered people ... but I imagine the author of the book probably assumes that queer people aren't capable of having stable relationships!
ReplyDeleteMeh. If the author can't accept that things have changed and that young women are exercising control in their hooking up and being safe and effective, then that's her problem not theirs.
This seems like a bit of an anachronistic approach. According to the reviews (I havent read the book) where is the safety, pleaure, respect that SHine talks about. What is Wrong with hooking up? This seems like old world moralism couched in new milleniumj lingo.
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