Harvard’s frenetic pace leads students to hook up, not date

BOSTON – The "hookup culture" of casual intimacy on college campuses has been written about ad nauseam – is it good? Bad? Does it hurt women, or empower them? What about men? Is it simply a numbers game, prompted by a rise in the "supply" of women relative to men on college campuses? But the term "hookup culture" leaves some college students (who are supposedly part of it) baffled.

BOSTON – The "hookup culture" of casual intimacy on college campuses has been written about ad nauseam – is it good? Bad? Does it hurt women, or empower them? What about men? Is it simply a numbers game, prompted by a rise in the "supply" of women relative to men on college campuses? But the term "hookup culture" leaves some college students (who are supposedly part of it) baffled.…