New PDF release: The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation

Hookup tradition dominates the lives of faculty scholars this present day. such a lot scholars spend hours agonizing over their hopes for fri. evening and, later, dissecting the evenings' successes or disasters, frequently wishing that the social agreement of the hookup might let them ask for extra out of sexual intimacy. The strain to take part comes from all directions—from friends, the media, or even mom and dad. yet how do those expectancies impact scholars themselves? And why aren't mom and dad and universities assisting scholars make better-informed judgements approximately intercourse and relationships?

In The finish of Sex, Donna Freitas attracts on her personal huge study to bare what younger women and men actually need by way of intercourse and romance. Surveying millions of faculty scholars and carrying out vast one-on-one interviews at spiritual, secular public, and secular deepest faculties, Freitas chanced on that many students—men and girls alike—are deeply unsatisfied with hookup tradition. Meaningless hookups have led them to affiliate sexuality with ambivalence, boredom, isolation, and loneliness, but they generally tend to just accept hooking up as an unavoidable a part of university existence. Freitas argues that, till scholars become aware of that there are lots of avenues that result in intercourse and long term relationships, the overwhelming majority will proceed to overlook out at the romance, intimacy, and gratifying intercourse they deserve.

An sincere, sympathetic portrait of the demanding situations of younger maturity, The finish of Sex will ring a bell with undergraduates, mom and dad, and college contributors who consider that scholars deserve greater than an never-ending cycle of boozy one evening stands. Freitas bargains a clean tackle this charged topic—and an answer that relies no longer on premarital abstinence or unfettered sexuality, yet particularly a fit direction among the two.