In my Dating and Communication course, my students often talk about how the nature of dating has changed. It seems that, for many young people, dating is more myth than reality. That is, for many ...

Music drowns out any possible opportunity for conversation as you elbow your way through the crowd. Someone spills beer all over you. By the time you make it across the room to approach that hottie ...

Sex can be uncomfortable to talk about, particularly when using the medical terminology that dominates formal education about the subject. But using casual and familiar slang instead can be vague and ...

I was talking with a friend of mine about the social scene at Tufts. I posed this question to him: Of all the girls that go out to a frat party on any given night, what percentage of them hook up with ...

Biochemistry freshman Jason Askew begins by tirelessly searching through Internet groups. After finding one that has several attractive girls, he writes to each of them by copying and pasting an ...

The Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 50, No. 8 (November-December 2013), pp. 757-766 (10 pages) Research has demonstrated ambiguity about the definition of hooking up among college students. The current ...