Monday, April 19, 2010

Hooking Up Part Two

Hooking Up Part Two

“In the spring a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love,” wrote Tennyson. Alfred had never toured a twenty-first century American college campus where, to the young men–and women–in attendance, every season is booze-filled spring and thoughts of lust.

“I saw it [hooking up] as a way to be recognized and get satisfaction,” said Boyle, shaking her blond ponytail. “I felt so empty then.”

Fannie Boyle, now a junior at Vanderbilt University, thereby capsulized the state and status of casual, random make-out and copulation sessions, at least for her. She made her decision after her freshman year to change her life and priorities, met with a great deal of cynicism and criticism, and is now among the 25% celibate minority. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1638)

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