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Hookups Won't Ruin Her Life

Flings help today's young women grow and learn

By Michael Foreman,  Newser User

Posted Aug 5, 2008 12:22 PM CDT
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(Newser) – New books are urging girls in the "hookup generation" to stay chaste, but Tracy Clark-Flory trumpets the virtues of casual sex in Salon. While abstinence authors rate women as whores or angels, the 24-year-old argues that hookups help women vet partners physically and emotionally. Today's females take a feminist approach to sex, "claiming the traditionally male side of the stud/slut double-standard."

Clark-Flory admits she's had more "several-nights stands" than relationships, but says the "Girl/Grrrl Power" movement taught her self-respect. "I don't exactly advocate picking up guys at frat parties and screwing atop the keg as the path to marital bliss," she says. "It’s just that hookup culture is not the radical extreme it is so frequently mischaracterized as in the media."

Hookup culture is not the radical extreme it is so frequently mischaracterized as in the media.
"Hookup culture is not the radical extreme it is so frequently mischaracterized as in the media."   (© RodrigoFavera)
Tracy Clark-Flory argues that hookups help vet partners physically and emotionally before making a big commitment.
Tracy Clark-Flory argues that hookups help vet partners physically and emotionally before making a big commitment.   (© iLoveButter)
Contrary to portrayals of women as virgins or whores, a little casual sex won't ruin your life, writes Tracy Clark-Flory in Salon.
Contrary to portrayals of women as virgins or whores, a little casual sex won't ruin your life, writes Tracy Clark-Flory in Salon.   (Shutter Stock)
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