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Learning to Speak Hookup: Guys’ Edition
Posted by Susan Walsh on Nov 4, 2009 in Hooking Up Realities, Relationship Strategies
As I wrote in Learning to Speak Hookup: A Pocket Phrasebook, the vocabulary surrounding the navigation of sex and relationships has become nearly incomprehensible. In the Hookup language, there are many irregularities and exceptions to the rule. It’s also heavily dependent on context. With so much misunderstanding, young people spend a great deal of time [...]
Chad Kultgen’s Unputdownable Novels
Posted by Susan Walsh on Aug 19, 2009 in Hooking Up Realities, What Guys Want
Recently a college-aged friend turned me on to The Average American Male by Chad Kultgen (2007), a book she found disgusting and reprehensible in every way. She went so far as to say she hated the author. She was about 50 pages in at that point, and it was clear that she had absolutely no intention [...]
