In American Hookup, sociologist Lisa Wade explores a matter on which lots of opine but on which the study literature is fewer frequently invoked: the sex lives of undergraduate college students. Faculty pupils, op-ed columnists, and customers of the typical public have penned essays alternately celebrating, condemning, and lamenting the increase of a supposedly carefree and attachment-mild manner of sexual interaction that has arrive to be known in preferred discourse as the ‘hookup tradition. ‘ Wade joins this ongoing dialogue and provides to it a wealth of knowledge, a eager eye and intellect, and an obvious regard and fondness for the pupils with whose stories she has been entrusted.
