[Rutles4Ever]

Not a very good prognostication for the future of the marriage institution. Even if these girls get married, what are the chances they'll view it as a lifelong commitment?

[Yo-Yo]

The more things change...

[Squawk 8888]

I'm reminded of a line from a long-forgotten but not too bad early 90s sitcom:

"Bad credit is forever. Marriage is until you get tired of it."

[L98Fiero]

"Hooking up"?

What ever happened to "whoring around"?

[Jeff Chandler]

...a culture where young women take pride in having guilt-free sex with partners they barely know...

"I don't know anyone else who's in a relationship, do you?"

"They see relationship as draining you of everything,

friends at home think she's weird to be in a monogamous relationship.

Marriage? Probably not.

Democrats.

[Mr. Mojo]

In a culture where young women take pride in having guilt-free sex with partners they barely know.....

Despite what these girls desperately want to believe "hooking up" with partners they barely know is neither guilt-free, emotion-free, or consequence-free. .....and they all discover this, eventually.

[frogjerk]

"Sex in the City" is was a harmless sitcom. /lib

[HamiltonJay]

Personally I have no problem if high schoolers want to date around (not condoing wanton promiscuous sex) but frankly dating a bunch of different people certainly isn't a bad thing when young.

[Snardius]

Hooking up = Sport F**king

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I had to read this twice: who knew that Nolan and Aparicio are girl's names? Then again, this is Massachusetts, so it's perfectly natural that a male Nolan or Aparicio would be talking about his boyfriend.

[dan1123]

IS it healthy?!?

Sure, serially monogamous sexual relationships weren't the greatest relationship fad, and caused emotional pain because of the intimacy-break-up cycle. So to avoid pain, there was a choice: remove the sex or remove the relationship. Looks like the latter won out.

I don't like Joshua Harris's kissing dating goodbye, but avoiding sexual intimacy in a dating relationship is a good way to do away with a lot of problems that plague the path to marriage.

[colorado tanker]

Well, when the graduate these girls will always have a profession they can lay, er, fall back on.

[Finalapproach29er]

These days, any women whose been "had" by less than ten guys is a gem.

Nothing special left in their souls by the time they reach 30.

[pabianice]

What bullshit! This is the same crowd that insists "Sex and the City" shows middle American values.

[RDTF]

'Hooking up' doesn't necessarily mean anything more than kissing.

[MPJackal]

This is BS. I have two teenage daughters and I can tell you that they and their girlfriends are very into having or finding a boyfriend. I am not saying it does not happen, but this article makes it sound like it is the VAST majority. It is not.

On a side note, it seems as though something is up. This is the third or fourth article I have seen over the last week or two trying to say traditional relationships are dying.

First there was the story about the majority of women are now single. It was proved to be BS, but the damage was done.

Then there was the Gays that adopt are better parents the traditional parents. A study also guilty of dishonesty.

And now this. Am I paranoid or is something afoot

[texas_mrs]

Hooking up has come to define sexual relationships for most of today's teens and young women.

Try as I might, I cannot hear this term without thinking of dogs.

[Rummyfan]

Nolan and Aparicio? Baseball fan parents - Nolan Ryan and Luis Aparicio?

[bert]

The by product is stress. If you watch TV, pay attention to the commercials. Every product being pushed to women, especially young women, claims to reduce stress.

The successful Republican candidate must pander to this need and must promise stress reduction. If not, he will lose. Those young women who go through life thinking they are stressed out will provide the margin necessary to elect the President.

There is a chicken in every pot but the stress that put it there is a killer.

[Zhang Fei]

I get the impression that this is media people talking about other media people. After all, everyone I know is hooking up - ergo, Americans must be hooking up en masse.

[Enchante]

Bill Clinton approves...... he drools over the prospect of an increasingly large pool of young women available for casual sex of all descriptions.....