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Hookup culture dominates the lives of college students today. Most students spend time agonizing over their desires for Friday nighttime and, later, dissecting the evenings' successes or failures, often wishing that the communal agreement of the hookup allows them to require more out of erotic intimacy. The pressure to get involved comes from all guidelines - from peers, the multimedia, and even parents. But just how do these expectations have an effect on students themselves? And why aren't parents and universities aiding students make better-informed decisions about intimacy and human relationships? In The End of Sex, Donna Freitas pulls on her own intensive research to show what young men and women really want when it comes to intimacy and romance. Surveying thousands of college students and executing intensive one-on-one interviews at spiritual, secular public, and secular private universities, Freitas discovered that lots of students - women and men similarly - are deeply disappointed with hookup culture. Meaningless hookups have led them to relate sexuality with ambivalence, boredom, isolation, and loneliness, yet they have a tendency to accept starting up as an inevitable part of college life. Freitas argues that, until students realize that there a wide range of avenues that lead to intimacy and long-term human relationships, a large proportion will continue to miss out on the romance, intimacy, and fulfilling sex they need. An honest, sympathetic family portrait of the difficulties of young adulthood, The End of Sex will affect a chord with undergraduates, parents, and faculty associates who feel that students need more than an infinite routine of boozy one nighttime stands. Freitas offers a refreshing take on this charged topic - and a solution that relies not on premarital abstinence or unfettered sexuality, but instead a healthy avenue between the two.
