Hookup culture and higher education

Over the past decade, the term “hookup culture” has come to be used to characterize the sexual culture that dominates residential college campuses. Hookup culture prescribes frequent sexual contact between multiple individuals, all of whom claim no romantic intent. These sexual encounters themselves are referred to as “hookups,” and the act of engaging in such an encounter is described as “hooking up.” For prior reviews, see Garcia, Reiber, Massey, and Merriwether (2012), Heldman and Wade (2010), Pham (2017), Stinson (2010), and Wood and Perlman (2016).