...Tracing the centrality of sexuality to twentieth-century American youth culture reveals changes in patterns of courtship. It shows that young men and women have incorporated necking, petting, and eventually sexual intercourse into the rituals of treating, dating, going steady, and hooking up...

...For Mostly Catholic campuses, Catholicism is pervasive. They require that every student take two classes on Catholicism, and masses are offered daily. Almost 70% of the students are Catholic. Still, many students hook up, and the dormitory visitation rules are limited or are not strictly enforced...

...This chapter considers the sex lives of college students, beginning with an extended discussion of the hookup. In-person interviews describe what hooking up means and what it’s looked like in their own lives. According to recent estimates, hookup sex remains a minority practice because many...

... by gender, race, and ethnicity (when available in the literature) that may better help scholars understand how a variety of emerging adults form families and flourish in the process. Directions for future research are included throughout the chapter. family formation dating process hanging out hooking up...

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...This chapter provides an overview of the modern context of emerging adult dating and cohabitation. Information is provided on the sexual activity, hooking-up, and dating behaviors of emerging adults, and modern trends in each of these areas are discussed. Relationships among emerging adults...