![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wade offers brief but fascinating looks into the history of courtship in America and the history of the American college that, taken together, helped engineer today’s campus culture. It is, in short, a feat of social engineering.” Wade notes that even though the hookup is supposedly “a fun, harmless romp,” it has “oddly strict parameters. Step 5-C: Create emotional distance: “The rule,” writes Wade, “is to be less close after a hookup, at least for a time.” And “plenty of students feel uncomfortable with this proposition, but hookup culture has a way of enforcing compliance.” Compliance, and often unkindness. Step 5-B: Cap your hookups: Multiple hookups with the same person could lead that person (usually the woman, men stereotypically fear) to “catch feelings” and think a relationship is forming. Step 5-A: Be (or claim to be) plastered: “If students are being careless,” writes Wade, “they can’t be held responsible for what they did, but neither can they be held responsible for who they did.” Step 5: Establish meaninglessness: The hardest step, according to Wade, who further breaks this step down: something: Anything from kissing to full-on sex. Step 3: Initiate a hookup: Turn to face the guy grinding on you (if you’re a woman, and you’ve received hand gestures from your friends that indicate that the guy is hookup-worthy.) ![]() Step 2: Grind: Dance (if you’re a woman.) Rub your junk against a woman’s trunk (if you’re a man.) ![]()
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