Word: hookups
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...Beatlemania is the comparison that everybody makes, but Twilight is more like the Beatles in reverse. Beatlemania was a reaction to the buttoned-down, sexually repressed pop culture of the 1950s. Twilight is a reaction to the reaction - it's a retreat from the hedonistic hookup culture that the sexual revolution begot. Nobody hooks up in Twilight. Meyer put sex back underground, transmuted it back into yearning, where it became, paradoxically, exponentially more powerful. "For me, the appeal of the vampire is safe sexuality," says Melissa Rosenberg, who has written the screenplays for all the Twilight movies...
...recent poster typifies this trend: “I settle for a new hookup each weekend since no guy wants a relationship. FML.” The half-dozen or so responses to this exclamation are illuminating, including one that reads: “I want a relationship. But you wouldn’t consider me, ever, since I don’t go to parties, am ‘no fun,’ and apparently am an asshole.” Whoever this is, he sure knows how to advertise...
...really object to some aspects of the hookup culture in that some individuals feel pressure to engage in it as the only way of meeting people,” Rachel Singh ’10 said. “People don’t always have the courage to take that step and ask someone to dinner, so it’s good that this show promotes a healthy dating culture...
...need to remind us? Better yet, why do some radical feminists save their virginity? Why do at least 42 percent of Harvard students not have sex? Some declare that we just can’t get any sex, but if a larger percentage of the student body wanted the hookup culture, odds would be pretty good that more students could find...
...Have met a hookup online...