Happy summer! This month Team Embodied is taking a break from releasing new episodes as we enjoy some summer fun. Up first: a deep dive into hookup culture. So is everyone hooking up?
Does hookup culture serve all of us — or any of us? Enjoy the show! It was while nursing a violent nosebleed at my very first frat party that I learned about the unwritten rules of attraction. I watched folks from my dorm flirt and pair off —hookup culture in action.
But not all of us were playing by those rules. There were just as many people uninterested in a casual sexual encounter that night. During my time on campus, and even years later, I've had questions about the so-called pervasiveness of no strings sex in my generation. I'm solidly a millennial, which means I'm probably supposed to know the answer to this: but what exactly is hookup culture?
And how does it shape the sex we have? And the sex we don't? This is Embodied. I'm Anita Rao. After ample conversations with the Embodied team, I was relieved to know that I am not the only person a little confused about hookup culture. Our show's two producers, the folks whose job it is to research this stuff, have just as many questions as I do.
Here's a little peek behind the scenes from some of our meeting chatter on Zoom these past few weeks:. Kaia Findlay Okay, so part of me is thinking that hookup culture isn't actually a thing.
