HOOKING UP, HANGING OUT
Scholars from the Institute for American Values conducted a
survey, "Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Looking for Mr. Right,"
that asked 1,000 college women about courtship in the new
millennium. The survey found that courtship—dating a male with
the hopes of finding a lifelong mate—has been replaced by
"hooking up." Hooking up with a male partner usually is fueled
by alcohol and entails engaging in sexual activity. Forty
percent of the women surveyed admitted to hooking up with men,
and one in ten disclosed they’d done so at least six times.
Elizabeth Marquardt, co-author of the report, says, "[The
women] wish they could really get to know a guy without
necessarily having a sexual relationship." This survey was
conducted after the National Marriage Project at Rutgers
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