So how did we end up with hook up culture?

Hanna
Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:09:37 +0000

One thing that never changes: a lot of parents are absolutely certain that all the hell-raising is happening in some other community or some other circle of kids. When I was in high school, there was lots of casual sex, binge drinking, and drug use. A huge number of parents of participating kids KNEW FOR SURE that their kids weren’t involved. How do I know? Because the deluded parents talked about it all the time at our elite private school’s frequent parent meetings. My parents would come home and say “Mrs. Y reassured the other parents that the kids aren’t drinking at this age,” and I’d say, “That’s weird, I had to leave her house early on Friday because everyone was puking.”

I was a giant nerd who never did anything interesting. But even I knew which houses let you get away with murder.