Thanks to everything from pop culture to college propaganda when students arrive on campuses today they expect with varying levels of inclination and trepidation to have a really good time. Many assume theyll encounter, as one student featured in The American Hookup put it apprehensively, a big four year orgy. Like most people I knew, she wrote, I believed that college was a wild, sexual party scene, and that to fit in, you had to be into alcohol, weed, and sex. Its taken for granted today that college is supposed to be fun and that sex is part of why. The best years of your life, is how another student put it. Fun takes priority over sleep and rest, she insisted, forgetting to mention studying altogether. Its an odd way to think about an institution dedicated to occupational training, if you think about. How did college become fun? And how did casual sex, of all things, become synonymous with enjoying ones higher education? American Hookup The New Culture of Sex on Campus by Lisa Wade This JOURNAL author conversation is a discussion of the book review Joe Dallas wrote about American Hookup The New Culture of Sex on Campus by Lisa Wade. Joe answers questions including What is the goal of the hook up culture specifically on the college campus? What does the author say about the hook up culture promoting rape culture on campus and a loss of intimacy? How is the hook up culture is institutionalized on the college campus according to the author? Secularists say that the Christian sexual ethic is narrow, limiting, and stifles freedom of sexual expression. How does a Christian sexual ethic differ from the hook up culture? Many Christian parents are about to send a child to college for the first time, what word of encouragement can you give them to prepare their kids to not succumb to the on campus hookup culture?