Thursday's Sex Column Wrap-up
“To hook up, be hooked up, and hook up with”
Alexi Shaw--Columbia Day Spectator--Columbia University
Young folk seem to love to hook-up. They certainly use the phrase often, perhaps more often than they perform the act. Weekly? Perhaps bi-monthly. Well, it’s often enough that the term describing the act merits discussion.
Years ago, when nascent teenage breasts were the objects of my desire, hooking-up meant kissing, or an occasional booby caress. We pubescent pimple-Toms didn’t use the word “kiss” just as we couldn’t use the word “beautiful.” Too sexually squeamish to kiss beautiful women, we hooked-up with hot girls—or, so we dreamed.
Twenty-year-olds use the phrase more arrogantly. Arrogantly, because its meaning has become so vague, assuming cool and casual airs for an act which is usually anything but.
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“Students disagree with same-sex statistics”
Adam Bickel--The Jambar--Youngstown State University
Katy Perry, singer of the popular song I Kissed a Girl, sings about it. Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy bassist, admitted to Out Magazine that he tried it. Lindsay Lohan is rumored to be living it. Oh, and who can forget seeing Madonna and Britney doing it.
It seems that the entertainment industry can't get enough of same-sex experimentation, whether it be on or off screen.
Some statistics show that in this case, art imitates life.
