American Hookup

The New Culture of Sex on Campus

By: Lisa Wade

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing, Lisa Wade offers the definitive account of this new sexual culture and demonstrates that the truth is both more heartening and more harrowing than we thought.

Offering invaluable insights for parents, educators, and students, Wade situates hookup culture within the history of sexuality, the evolution of higher education, and the unfinished feminist revolution. Working with new research, she maps out a punishing emotional landscape marked by unequal pleasures, competition for status, and sexual violence. She discovers that the most privileged students tend to like hookup culture the most, and she considers its effects on racial and sexual minorities, students who "opt out", and those who participate ambivalently.

Accessible and open-minded, compassionate and brutally honest, American Hookup explains where we are and how we got here, asking not "How do we go back?" but "Where do we go from here?"

©2017 Lisa Wade (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

trigger warning, great read

i thought the book was very thorough, there ideas were well fleshed out and organized, and the narrator was very easy to listen to.

Great book! I didn't love the voice of the reader.

The book was great! However, it was at times hard to listen to because the reader has a robotic voice that is more suited for giving directions through traffic. Very robotic.

Really interesting read

This topic is such true on American university campus today, it’s uncanny but not to realize it.

Eye Opening

This book is an insightful look into the psychology of college aged students and the hook up culture. With first person accounts of typical college hook ups, greek life, and sexual violence on campus. This book has helped me see things from a different perspective since I did not go to a typical college and have been in a monogamous relationships for most my life. I highly recommend this for all high school and up.

Good read well written, highly feminist

The book was well written the author did a standup job expressing all the variables of some difficult topics and discussing some common misconceptions about hookup culture. Some details that were mentioned were only mentioned in passing and the male half of the story is largely presented through 3rd partys horror story or from guys who later turn gay perspective. There is mainly negative reference frame sentiment towards straight men and altho the tone sounds objective the frame is always there is little good from men.