A Critical Review Of Lisa Wade's American Hook Up

Lisa Wade's American Hookup is an insightful read that focuses on sexual lives of young adults in America today. Lisa wade book is based on data gathered via her own interviews with college students she had in her classes, and on other results from researchers. The data offers both an interesting and worrying picture of the culture and feelings of college students of today. Much of the author's major purpose to focus on the fun sexual freedom of hooking up and how it goes against gender equality in which there are double standards for men and women. Although the media like to emphasize the crazy sex culture of college students Wade talks about how students today are less happy and healthy than in previous generations. Wade focuses on a broad

Wade book focuses on hook up culture of young people but takes both a more neutral approach from a more feministic perspective. A lot of Wade approach is about focusing on data points and breaking down misconception, for example, wade in her book states that "71 percent of men and 67 percent of women hope to find a long-term partner in college rather than participate in hookup culture."Wade also states that "Most students report an average of only eight hookups over the course of four years; that’s an average of one hookup per semester." Wade emphasizes how many college students overestimate how much their peers are actually participating in hookup culture. It's in these parts of the book were Wade tries to point out to the reader that although from the outside looking the hookup culture looks like a time of sexual exploration and freedom for young people it is really a time of unhappiness for many. Wade also speaks on the different kinds of unequal pleasure such as the orgasm gap. Wade states that "according to the Online College Social Life Survey, men are more than twice as likely as women to have an orgasm in a hookup. This gap shrinks significantly when women have sex within a relationship." In many of the parts of the book especially this chapter wade tries emphasizing that hookup culture itself is not the problem but rather the unequal distribution of pleasure for men and