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April 27th 2010

Does Taking Sex Seriously Make You a Scold?

- Laura Sessions Stepp

Since when does trying to convince your lab partner not to hook up with a new person every Saturday night make you a scold?

In my book, that makes you a friend. Apparently that’s not the case for Slate associate editor Jessica Grose.

Grose wrote a column reacting to a large national survey of college students in which the majority of women and men said they lose respect for classmates who hook up “a lot.” Because of this, Grose characterized these respondents as being members of what she called, “Generation Scold.”

4.19.10

Good Crush: Connecting Student Bodies

Flirting with a crush has never been this easy…or this anonymous…

With the help of guest reporter Emily Corwin, Laura Stepp takes a look at college internet dating and specifically goodcrush.com, a popular site that “eliminates potential awkwardness and shyness from romantic interactions by offering simple, fun, and exciting ways to turn your crush into a GoodCrush - a match.” [9 min 9 sec]

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March 19th 2010

March Madness of a Different Kind

- Stefanie

The other day I was having lunch with Sunshine Girl and catching up about her recent business trip. Sunshine Girl works on a grant program for an unnamed government agency and had to go to the annual grantee conference.

Before Sunshine Girl left for the conference, her colleague Mr. Worrywart pulled her aside and said, “You cannot, under any circumstance, fraternize with the grantees. It is a conflict of interest and there have been serious issues.”

Sunshine Girl: “I will keep that in mind.”

Mr. Worrywart: “You don’t understand. You are the only person under 30 to be allowed to go to this conference in five years. There have been some issues in the past.”

Sunshine Girl: “Do not engage. I get it.”

February 2nd 2010

Seen on Twitter: What's "a Slut"?

- Liz Sabatiuk

To accompany our "Slut: The Worst 4-Letter Word?" podcast, we searched "a slut" in our twitter feed to see how people are using the word. As Jessica pointed out in the poll "Do you use the word 'slut'?" urbandictionary.com has 255 definitions for it (actually, a week later as I'm writing this the number appears to have increased to 259). Based on a brief skim of the many (MANY) tweets that include the term--excluding all mention of Miley Cyrus, I might add--here is my short list, in no particular order, of what "slut" means to twitter-users.

November 16th 2009

In German There's Not Even a Word For Dating...

- Laura Sessions Stepp

The young woman perched on a chair across from me at Cosi, waiting for her black coffee to cool. Her name was Wlada (pronounced Vlada) Kolosowa. A university student from Berlin, she was taking classes in Washington, DC, and had been assigned by a German newspaper to write about dating in the United States.

“In Germany, we don’t date,” she said. “There isn’t even a word for dating. So what, exactly, is a date?”

Good question.

Historically, I started, a date was a form of courtship in which one person, usually a man, asked another person, usually a woman, to accompany him to some event. He picked her up and usually paid whatever costs were involved.

October 5th 2009

Adventures in Dating: A Social Experiment - Part III

- Lauren Mann

I assure you, this won’t be easy for either of us.

Last time I left you, I was waiting for that familiar vibrate of my phone to indicate that my social experiment was ready for the next phase. What happened next even I can’t sugarcoat with sarcasm.

October 2nd 2009

Blue-eyed Girl to Surfer Dude: “Damn straight it’s you.”

- Stefanie

The other night I was talking to Blue-eyed Girl and she reminded me of a concept that I have tried very hard to forget. . . non-dating break-ups.

Blue-eyed Girl: “Remember that time Surfer Dude called to break-up with me and we weren’t even dating?”

Me: “Umm. . . .YES, didn’t his girlfriend call you or something?” I start to giggle.

Blue-eyed Girl: “Yeah, or something.”

September 11th 2009

La Coquette and the Morning After

- Stefanie

The other night Smart Chick and I were driving La Coquette home after a dinner when the conversation turned to the previous weekend's activities.

Me: “Did you go to that party in the ‘burbs last weekend?”

La Coquette: “Oh, yeah. . . .”

Smart Chick: “Did you make any bad decisions!? Come on, tell us!”

La Coquette: “Well. . . . I brought home this really hot guy.”

Me: “Did you have sex with him?”

September 8th 2009

A Great Little Moment on "Greek"

- Amy Kramer

Nice scene on ABC Family’s “Greek” last night: Rusty and Jordan are mid-hookup and he interrupts the action to say “I have one question…” and before he can get any other words out she responds with “Yeah, I have some in the drawer.” He wasn’t going to ask about contraception -- he was preoccupied with trying to impress her visiting dad and was about to ask whether he was succeeding -- but when Jordan hinted at the condoms in such close proximity, Rusty seemed happily surprised.