Women's Health Wisdom

A recent study of unmarried men and women aged 18-29 by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy turned up some very odd findings about peoples’ attitudes towards contraception: …

I’m not entirely convinced that hooking up with guys, without being in a relationship, is a bad thing.

Dads have a God-given role to protect and provide for their families, always striving to teach their sons the life skills they’ll need to grow into honorable men . But many dads struggle with feelings of inadequacy regarding their fathering abilities. ..

Just like the “free love” generation before us, millennials figured this out long before the men in white coats arrived. For some, hooking up is a way to explore their sexuality without a relationship commitment. …

There are added and added singles get absorbed up online every day.

So, as silly as it might sound, I actually kinda like this description, as it both tackles my stereotypically-unmanly (even for a gay man) performance issues when it comes to hooking up with someone random while simultaneously addressing my somewhat-effeminate nature. That said, because I’m interested in women, you couldn’t really call me “a woman in a gay man’s body”, because then I would be into men , so a lesbian (perhaps a lipstick lesbian?) is the best fit.

‘ Hooking Up ‘ is a wonderfully written investigation of “the new dating”: what it is, how it works, and the effects that it has on the young men and women (who are either willingly or unwillingly caught up in the hook up culture). …

While some feminists believe that hooking up is very often traumatic, others justify the trauma because it will make it more difficult for women to have long term relationships with men and to succeed at marriage. …

(For the record, Naomi Wolf has been voicing concern about the impact of hooking up on young women for years, but as an alum of a prior “wave” of feminism she was considered too old, uncool, and irrelevant to engage.

Women have just as much right to hook up as men . Don’t let guilt and scare tactics stop you from doing whatever it is that empowers you (whether that means hooking up or not).