It is a typical Friday night party. The musty combination of sweat, hormones and repressed desires are undercut by the acidic smell of Vitali and the dry stench of beer. Grinding undergrads and pulsating music flood the space.
At a certain point, the innocent “What’s your major?” leads to suggestive looks. While some prefer to consummate their newfound friendships on the dance floor, other couples will peel out of the crowded lower level rooms to seek privacy elsewhere. Observers may nudge each other or snicker if they see their friend going upstairs with another, trading in their red plastic cups for a more elastic polymer product.
What happens next can vary, yet a simple “We hooked up” would likely suffice as an explanation in most circumstances.
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I couldn't get a girl to LOOk at me in college. Now they hook up casually? I could always get another BA, I suppose, but only if Mrs. Hiram comes back with me!
ReplyDeleteAnd this is news why? This was true in the 80s when I was in college. I suspect it was true in the 50s -- the only difference being how "far" people would go.
ReplyDeleteBecause everybody thinks they are the first to discover college sex, this is a college newspaper, so bingo-bango this is why they wasted good ink and paper on this crud.
DeleteNot to sound ancient, but in the 1920s and 1930s "hook-ups" were magazine talk for radio circuit construction articles; Hugo Gernsback's "Radio-Craft" magazine boasted "all the new hook-ups" year after grinding year during the Depression.
I'm intrigued by the idea that "hookup" is deliberately vague. I sort of like the idea that it allows both young men and young women a range of sexual expression without bringing down the judgment of their peers. Perhaps it even reflects a vestigial or renewed desire for a degree of privacy? If so, glory, hallelujah!
ReplyDelete"Hookup" sounds like an operation performed on an RV at a KOA.
DeleteJust this once I'm going to quote myself:
Delete"....in the 1920s and 1930s "hook-ups" were magazine talk for radio circuit construction articles; Hugo Gernsback's "Radio-Craft" magazine boasted "all the new hook-ups" year after grinding year during the Depression."
And might I add that they called these circuits "hook-ups" because you were supposed to test them out first on a piece of wood (usually an old breadboard)using wires with alligator clips and other non-permanent ways of putting the circuit together.
In the 1920s, they had "petting parties," which we now call hookups. (Not that I was there!) I like how the vernacular has gotten more vague as time passes.
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