Hook ups, defined
This week the NY Times ran an article on female college student casual sexual behavior, often referred to as "hook ups", at an Ivy League university. The author discusses the phenomena when interviewing 60 domestic and international undergraduates from various SES and ethnic backgrounds (but no mention of Lesbian or Bisexual women!). She makes the case that hook ups are so common because these young women have little time for relationships, they are more interested in school and being successful in their future career. While this may partly explain the behavior it leaves out important explications such the fact that this generation is brought up on the expectation that immediate gratification is both possible and desirable and easily delivered by social media and other technology.