{"id":17853,"date":"2012-11-20T12:39:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17853"},"modified":"2012-11-20T12:39:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:39:04","slug":"a-basic-tenet-of-male-human-psychology-seems-to-be-misunderstood-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/a-basic-tenet-of-male-human-psychology-seems-to-be-misunderstood-here\/","title":{"rendered":"A basic tenet of (male) human psychology seems to be misunderstood here&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcriterion.com\/articles.cfm\/Hook-up-feminism-7487\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Esfahani Smith<\/a> on &#8220;hook-up culture&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The good news is that Sex Week is only around every two years. In 2008, the <em>Harvard Crimson<\/em> quipped: \u201cSex at Harvard is a year-round activity. At Yale, it lasts a week.\u201d It\u2019s a funny line, but not exactly true, which brings up the bad news: There is another part of the social-sexual landscape of Yale and other schools that is more lasting and endemic: the hook-up culture. In the hook-up culture, which is primarily driven by women, college students prefer to have sex with \u201cno strings attached\u201d \u2014 that is, they seek to have meaningless, casual sex outside of the context of a relationship. Some women consider this \u201cempowering,\u201d as Harden finds out by eavesdropping on a conversation between two female students, one of whom has this to say about her hook-up conquests, who are football players on campus: \u201cIf you go up to them at a party and just get them drinking, and start dancing with them, and kissing them, they will totally end up sleeping with you. They don\u2019t even know they\u2019re being played. They have no clue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cue reality: \u201cCould it be possible,\u201d Harden writes, \u201cThat these girls don\u2019t understand a fundamental fact about the human male? You normally don\u2019t have to trick a man into having sex.\u201d Young women today, influenced by Sex Week-style programming, have lost track of how the sexual marketplace really works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Esfahani Smith on &#8220;hook-up culture&#8221;: The good news is that Sex Week is only around every two years. In 2008, the Harvard Crimson quipped: \u201cSex at Harvard is a year-round activity. At Yale, it lasts a week.\u201d It\u2019s a funny line, but not exactly true, which brings up the bad news: There is another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28],"tags":[139,255,764,43],"class_list":["post-17853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality","tag-university","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4DX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17854,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17853\/revisions\/17854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}